Lake Chalet

Litquake, a festival that highlights Bay Area authors, takes place is various venues in San Francisco and Oakland.  I read along with serval fabulous authors at Lake Chalet, a restaurant and bar that sits on Oakland’s Lake Merritt.  Fun times.

isn’t he cute? 😉

My favorite bookseller ever – Jerry Thompson.  I first met Jerry way back when my first novel Please Please Please came out.  He’s been supportive ever since.  And he’s funny as hell.   

Here I am with author Joan Steinau Lester.  She thinks she’s tall and I’m trying to help her out by shrinking in size. Joan is the author of Mama’s Child and I interviewed her right here on my website.

Joan is very tall–really!

not!

One of my favorite things to do is take a picture of the people who show up to my readings.  Sometimes it’s like a dream that I’m actually on stage reading from my novel and I want to remember and capture every moment.  (There are a few people in the crowd who surprised me big time when they showed up. They know who they are and I say THANK YOU)

Awesome Litquake audience!