Kathi Kamen Goldmark is the author of And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You, a novel; co-author of The Great Rock & Roll Joke Book, and Mid-Life Confidential: the Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude; and has contributed essays to several anthologies including My California: Journeys by Great Writers and Single Woman of a Certain Age. She has also worked in publishing "on the inside," for nearly every major publisher, as a media escort and publicist. With 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, a 2007 San Francisco Library Laureate, and winner of the 2008 Women's National Book Association Award. She likes to think she is ready for anything.