Autumn 2015 Events
Fall is always a busy time of year around here and I’m sure you’re swamped too, so let’s get right to it. I’m going to be out and about in the Bay Area in the next few weeks and would love to see you at any or all of the events!
Saturday, September 26 (tomorrow): My husband and I are heading up to Marin to check out CykelScramble, a one-of-a-kind bike relay race plus concert featuring Geographer and Cold War Kids. It’s not often there’s an event that marries his love of bikes with my love of music, so we’re excited to see what this free Free FREE event at the Marin County Fairgrounds in San Rafael is all about. Come on out and join us! And if you can’t, it looks like I may get a chance to chat with the bands on Saturday afternoon so check out Periscope (@midlifemixtape) just in case…
Monday, September 28: I’ll be in conversation with three terrific YA writers at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland, at 7 pm. If you’ve ever shopped at GGP, you know that Kathleen and Co. are big supporters of YA lit, and always have their fingers on the pulse of what’s new and great. I’ll be interviewing three writers whose books I’ve devoured in the past few months:
Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Damned
Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You, The Disenchantments, Hold Still
Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word, Time Between Us, Time After Time
Come join us and bring your underage readers too! Let me know in the comments if there are any questions you’re dying for me to ask them…
Bonus: if you’re into sports, join me in the audience at Great Good Place on Wednesday, October 7 at 7 pm when author Justine Gubar talks about her new book, Fanaticus. Justine is a four-time Emmy award-winning investigative journalist who works as a producer at ESPN, and set out to explore why that idiot next to you at the game is acting like such an idiot. She’s also a writing buddy of mine and I’m thrilled to see her book come to life!
Thursday, October 8: It’s the last Midlife Mixtape Dance Party of 2015, at the Cat Club in San Francisco (1190 Folsom Street) from 7-9 pm! You know you want to come out and dance to the songs of your high school and college years. You also want to go to bed at a reasonable hour. We understand. We are your people. There’s a Facebook invite now to make it easier to invite your FB friends, but there’s no need to RSVP. Everyone’s welcome (everyone bringing an ID and $5 for the cover, anyway.)
I’m going to be giving away a few of my favorite Turn Down the Music and Read books, so bring your friends, get there early and stay late! And by late I mean until maybe 9:10.
Saturday, October 17: Litcrawl! Or more accurately, the pre-game for Litcrawl, the world’s largest literary pub crawl. Plans are still being firmed up, but I’m part of a group of writers who will read between BART stops en route to Litcrawl in the Mission, starting from the West Berkeley station at around 5 pm. By the time we tumble out of BART into the Mission, we will have collected a mass of lit lovers who are bound for glory. I’ll share more details on the Midlife Mixtape Facebook page as they emerge.
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