Live from the Lavender Library

I read from Behr Facts tonight while we had an evening of milk and cookies at Sacramento’s Lavender Library. Want to see my small portion of the evening? Well, here’s the video on Scott’s Facebook site.

Also reading from their books tonight were Kim Fielding, Amy Lane, D. L. Kent, LE Frank, Genevieve Wolfe, and Scott Coatsworth. It was a great evening with a small but attentive audience. We’ve consequently been asked back for a fall event and to share the Library’s booth for upcoming Pride events. So this should be a really interesting year!

By the way, the audio book version of Behr Facts is on sale at Amazon for $1.99, down from its usual price of $14.59. Quite a savings if you like audio books. (And the narrator, David Ross, reads it much better than I do!)

Outside the Margins and Making Margins

My last column for Prism Book Alliance runs today. I talk about all sorts of things as well as recommend two books, so you might want to check it out.

I'm also going slowly in setting up my new website pathenshaw.com. So far I'm building it myself, but am going to ask for assistance from J. Scott Coatsworth next month if I can't get everything figured out through online tutorials and two how-to books. We'll see.

And finally, my friends, here's one of Jake's photos from a recent camera club outing. I thought this little sign was funny.

A Chance to Win a $10 Coffee Card

I'm being spotlighted at J. Scott Coatsworth's blog today and am talking about writing and miniatures and cabbages and kings. Scott's a fellow Sacramentan and probably the hardest working author I know.

His first book, Skythane, just came out from Dreamspinner Press, and I'm reading it during every minute of free time I have. So far I'm enjoying it quite a bit--and I'm not really a fan of sci-fy.

Check out his book as well as my spotlight on his blog. You could win a $10 coffee card by leaving a comment there. Easy-peasy, right?

Some Fun Added to This Blog

J. Scott Coatsworth, a wonderful author from Sacramento, writes an ongoing series about life in Midtown River City for his blog, River City Chronicles.

Not only is this episodic story with its collection of recipes from the Old Country lots of fun to read in English, but Scott includes an Italian version for those who want to brush up on their language skills.

So that readers of my blog can keep up with the periodic story, I've put the page's badge to the left of this page. The badge links to Scott's River City page.

Another bit of fun I've added to this blog page is a link to Vance Bastian's Campfire Podcast. Vance is an incredibly talented narrator who magically transforms the written word to entertaining melody.

For his campfire stories, he takes novels and novellas that have a bit of a spooky edge--the kinds of tales traditionally told around campfires--and reads them an appropriately chilling fashion.

Give both Scott's River City Chronicles and Vance's Campfire Podcasts a whirl. You'll be glad you did!