Author, Writer, Poet
Here is a photo from Unsolicited Press table at the Litquake Small Press Book Fair on Sunday with amazing UP authors Sommer Schafer, Patricia Q. Bidar, LeeAnn Pickrell, Cathy Shea, and Marianne Villanueva. I always enjoy my time with this group and I benefit from their literary inspiration.
Thank you to everyone who stopped by and to Litquake for venue and the jazz band concert in the background. I was hooked when the band opened with a Miles Davis cover. Music and words, a perfect afternoon.
If your going to the Litquake Small Press Book Fair on Sunday, October 4, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Yerba Buena Gardens, please stop by the Unsolicited Press Table to say hi. We’ll have discounted books and free literary conversation and irreverent jokes.
https://www.litquake.org/bookfair
I will be reading poems on Zoom with Partho Sereno for the Rivertown Poets at 6pm PDT Monday July 6. Please join us. The reading will be followed by an open mic.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6508887879
Meeting ID: 650 888 7879
Passcode: 2241991
Open mic signup (1 poem each): rivertownpoet@gmail.com
Thank you to Jeffrey Heath and the January House Literary Journal for publishing my creative nonfiction story, “The Bear Outside the Window”.
The story is based on a sudden illness my wife suffered two years ago, and I’m happy to report she is much better now.
https://januaryhouselit.com/2026/04/09/the-bear-outside-the-window/
If you are in Oakland CA or the Bay Area, you might want to check out the “Eyes on the Prize” reading 5-7 pm tonight at the Oakland Liberation Center, 1499 Fruitvale Ave., Oakland.
The reading will feature SF Writers Grotto authors who were finalists for literary prizes but did not win. All of the readers are talented and entertaining, and I’m looking forward to a good time. For my segment, I will share a few pages of my irreverent sixties road novel, Lucky Ride, which was a finalist for the Maxy Award.
Hope to see you there!
