Apr 26
The Daily Bruin talks with children’s author and alumnus Derek Taylor Kent about his new children’s book series SCARY SCHOOL to be published in June 2011 by HarperCollins: “Kent has been writing since the age of 15, creating various forms of amusement with premises not quite as spooky. For one free-form assignment in a UCLA …
Apr 26
LA Times Book Critic Susan Salter Reynolds discusses THIS VACANT PARADISE: Excerpt: One wants to like Esther, who has the potential to rise above it all, but she fails us: “No matter how much plastic surgery,” she thinks, looking at female competitors in a bar, “they would never be as physically attractive as she was …
Apr 22
From LA Times Jacket copy: “Publishing industry chronicler Galleycat is coming to L.A. On Wednesday April 27, they’re having the Book Club Party in Los Angeles. The event, which promises readings, minglings and cocktails, will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica.” Victoria Patterson (This Vacant Paradise) will …
Apr 22
Victoria Patterson, Yannick Haenel, Laurent Nunez, and Siva Vaidhyanathan discuss writing about now at the French Institute in New York. For more info, visit: http://ow.ly/4FdBL
Apr 20
Written by award-winning journalist Jerry Thompson, CASCADIA’S FAULT tells the tale of this potentially devastating earthquake and the killer waves it will spawn. For the past 25 years, Thompson has followed the story of CASCADIA’S FAULT, or The Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is a fracture in the earth’s crust roughly one hundred kilometres offshore, running …
Apr 20
From P&W: Writers recommend “Always tucked in a pocket of my purse is a Moleskine journal. I try to write every day, no matter what, and I’ve pulled that Moleskine out while waiting for my kids—doctor’s appointments, soccer practices, piano lessons. In my Moleskine, I allow myself the freedom to write anything. No matter the …
Apr 08
Goodreads.com is hosting an online author chat for Victoria Patterson and James Brown from April 4 – April 18. For James Brown, join the discussion here: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/46011.Q_A_with_James_Brown For Victoria Patterson, join the discussion here:http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/46012.Q_A_with_Victoria_Patterson If you love books, and don’t know Goodreads, it’s high time you join Goodreads.com to get the latest on your favorite …
Apr 06
Check out this wonderful interview with Victoria Patterson about being a Pasadena local, the writing life and her new novel This Vacant Paradise: http://ow.ly/4uDeg
Apr 05
Valerie Trueblood shares her insights on marriage on author Caroline Leavitt’s blog: “A wedding is a good place to think. We cry at the start as the bride comes forward, smile at the end as the couple sweeps past, but in between, while people get up and down, hand each other things, read from shaking pieces …
Apr 05
Here’s an excerpt of a wonderful in-depth review of Marry or Burn by Valerie Trueblood on Necessary Fiction: “The persistent reader develops a fuller, if uncertain, sense of Trueblood’s basic and continuing “intuitions.” These are suspicions about how life works and can be understood, a poetic sense of what’s happening, what matters, here especially among …