Okay, so next up on my agenda is a reading at “{pages}, a bookstore,” in Manhattan Beach on June 19th at 7 pm. This has to be one cool bookstore, what with the name listed in small letters along with those fancy brackets, right? I’ll be joined by fellow She Writes Press authors, Dawn Blume Hawkes and Jessica Levine, along with our publisher, Brooke Warner.

In case you haven’t noticed I’m workin’ all the angles to get a little love for Loveyoubye: a skywriter endlessly puffing out the name of my book across the heavens; my two little granddaughters trudging around Davis, day after day, lugging sandwich board ads; a full page ad in the Los Angeles Times (where Donald Sterling’s ad used to be). Oh, and announcements on Facebook and Twitter.  Never thought I’d be this “forward,” if you know what I mean.

I’m also about to create an audiobook for Loveyoubye, with me reading. Memoirs need to be read by the author.  Hopefully, my friends will have their sound booth set up in time so I can use that. Meanwhile, I’m reading Loveyoubye out loud to Fergie and Jake, getting a feel for the words, figuring out where to take a breath, where to pause, and where to change the wording so that it flows when I record.  And then while I’m at it, I think I’ll do the same for my Young Adult novel, Monkey’s Wedding, only the first chapter though. If all goes well, I should have the recordings done by the end of July.

Meanwhile, it’s off to the cool bookstore in Manhattan Beach I go, along with dinner beforehand at Little Sister in Manhattan Beach with my fellow authors. Make a plan and join us at the bookstore.