A Virtual Shelter in Place

What's Next? A Virtual Event!

photo credit: Cynthia Wood

On June 24 at 7pm, I'll be in conversation with warm and funny author Mary Ladd to discuss her book The Wig Diaries, an irreverent book about cancer. Presented by the Walnut Creek Library. Book sales are available through Orinda Books.

It's a good time to make fun to the things are that are un-make-funable and I'm looking forward to our discussion, which will certainly cover Mary's new book of writing prompts: Write It Down: Coronavirus Writing Prompts. Please join us! Register here: wclibrary.org/live.

IMG DESCR: book cover for The Wig Diaries. Comic illustration of a bald woman looking up at a giant black wig adorned with cartoon flower.
Cover art by Don Asmussen

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And, because sometimes pictures are more soothing than words, here's a visual sampling of books I've enjoyed over the last year:

Featured Favorites

Covers L-R:
Block 1
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Home Baked by Alia Volz
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wicer
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Block 2
Big Familia by Tomas Moniz
Slavery's Descendants edited by Dionne Ford and Jill Strauss
America is Immigrants by Sara Nović
The Thank-You Project by Nancy Davis Kho
Block 3
Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco
Cinderella Liberator by Rebecca Solnit
Write On, Sisters! by Brooke Warner
Block 4
BUZZ: The Ultimate Guide to Book Marketing by Dara Beevas and Roseanne Cheng
Paper is White by Hilary Zaid
Okay Fine Whatever by Courtenay Hameister
The House That Lou Built by Mae Respicio
Block 5
Girl at War by Sara Nović
An Unrestored Woman by Shobha Rao
Landfalls by Naomi Williams
River of Stars by Vanessa Hua