Yesterday afternoon I met with a Book Club in Encino, California, one which had invited me to discuss my memoir, Becoming Alice. It is so interesting for me to speak to these various groups because I always come away with a different experience. This one particularly focused on the teenage part of my story. This [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Teenage turmoil
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged teenage turmoil on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An Exciting Event
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been moving along over the last couple of years doing “events” which I discovered were a lot of fun to do. I mean that I have really enjoyed talking to all sizes of groups about Becoming Alice without suffering any stage fright. There have been literary groups and book clubs, libraries and temples and [...]
Self-publishing
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My Writer’s Digest magazine came in the mail yesterday and lo and behold, it was almost entirely on self-publishing. I know a little about that. My book, Becoming Alice, was originally published by iUniverse almost two years ago and has been re-issued last August 2008. Last summer my publishing company merged with Author House. the [...]
Book Titles
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve spent 6 and 1/2 hours on a plane from NYC to LA yesterday with a book whose title is eirily like the title of my book, Becoming Alice. It is entitled Still Alice and it is a novel instead of a memoir, like mind. Not only is the title similar, but it was originally [...]
The Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two landmarks all in one day: I finished reading “The Zookeeper’s Wife” and saw the movie “The Reader. ” Somehow I seem to be bogged down in World War II. But both those stories give us such a new perspective on what we know that happened at that time. Who would ever think about [...]
