Public sightings

Tomorrow night, Saturday the 9th, from 7:15-8:15 PM, Elizabeth Bernstein and I will be emceeing the San Francisco Writers Grotto reading at LitCrawl, which is basically a gigantic literary block party on around Valencia Street in SF, the concluding event to LitQuake. The theme is "Disobedience" and the readers will be Marianna Cherry, Rachel Howard, Kathryn Ma, James Nestor, Justine Sharrock, and Meghan Ward. And note how we honor diversity: we made sure to include one Asian-American and one male.

Then Mark Badger and I will be doing two signings for our new graphic novel from NBM Publishing, Networked: Carabella on the Run. The first, Sunday Oct. 10 from 5:00-8:00 PM, is at Mission Comics and Art in San Francisco. Mission is a relatively new entry in the retail community, a combination comics shop and art gallery right off Valencia Street, the main hipster artery of Northern California, and it's already becoming well known for its music gigs, art openings and literary readings.

Six days later, from 2:00-5:00 PM on Saturday Oct. 16, we'll be across the bay at Dr. Comics and Mr. Games in Oakland. In some ways Dr. Comics is the opposite of Mission, a venerable citizen of the quiet, classy Piedmont neighborhood that sells not comics and cutting-edge art but comics and board games. But it's legendary for its comprehensive selection and that great rarity in comics shops, a pleasant and helpful staff. You can read people raving about them on Yelp here.

It's all a welcome break from grinding through this first complete draft of The Undressing of America, which I'm supposed to finish in about two weeks. Drop by if you get a chance and wish me luck!