Kathi Kamen Goldmark is the author of a novel, And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You, and co-author of Write That Book Already!: the Tough Love You Need to Get Published Now (Adams Media 2010). She co-authored The Great Rock & Roll Joke Book with Dave Marsh, and has contributed essays to several anthologies including Mid-Life Confidential: the Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude; My California: Journeys by Great Writers; Single Woman of a Certain Age; Feed Me!; and The Face in the Mirror. She has also worked in publishing "on the inside," for nearly every major publisher, as a media escort and publicist. With her husband Sam Barry, she writes a monthly aspiring-writer-advice column in BookPage called "The Author Enablers." A 2007 San Francisco Library Laureate, Kathi is the founder and a member of the all-author rock band the Rock Bottom Remainders, president and janitor of "Don't Quit Your Day Job" Records, Author Liaison for many high-profile literary events (Book Group Expo, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library's Laureates Dinner), producer of the radio show West Coast Live, and winner of the 2008 Women's National Book Association Award. She likes to think she is ready for anything.