I haven’t mused for quite a while, at least not in this format. I’ve been hard at work on my third book (now in its fifth draft, I’m waiting to see if my agent thinks it’s ready to submit to publishers) and that’s been pretty all-consuming. Once it’s sold, I’m sure I’ll be back to tease you with the plot. Until then, I’m coy.
But it’s Litquake time again, and that’s enough to bring me out of hibernation. This will be my third year participating, and every time, I’m tempted to wax rhapsodic about “the uniquely San Francisco literary festival”, as they’ve aptly tagged it. But since I’m feeling a little spent from my revision grind, I’ll have to let their website do the work for me (www.litquake.org.) I’ll be a part of the LitCrawl, a multi-venued, multi-tiered extravaganza that I highly recommend to anyone who hasn’t tried it yet; if you have, you’ll probably be back. Anyway, it’s happening on Saturday, October 17 and I’ll be reading during Phase 2 (7:15 to 8:15 p.m.) at the Modern Times bookstore (888 Valencia, in the Mission.) The theme is Fresh New Fiction, and I’ll be trying to hold my own alongside Josh Bazell, Lee Konstantinou, Victor Martinez, Todd Shimoda, K.M. Soehnlein, Christina Sunley, and Wendy Tokunaga. Hope to see you there.