Jane Ganahl has been a journalist, editor, author, consultant and community organizer in San Francisco for twenty-five years. She is the author of the novelized memoir, Naked on the Page: the Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife (Viking), which has been optioned for a TV series by TBS.
For 24 years, I was mute at this time of year. I had to hold my fingers crossed - so tightly they turned blue - rather than speak my opinion, attend a rally, march during a protest.
Talk about the best-laid plans! I had intended to blog a couple of times during Litquake week but... well... was simply too INSANE to be able to sit down long enough!
I'm not sure anyone can read to the end of this, but I thought I'd paste the entire Litquake schedule here, sort of as an excuse for why I have not been more active lately!
I have been involved with Red Room since March of last year, lining up authors for web pages, and I have never been so proud of this organization as I am today.
A writer friend said the other day that he wondered why writers would blog. “I mean, they write for a living,” he said. “Why would they want to write when they don’t have to?
Title: A SENSE OF THE WORLD: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler Author: Jason Roberts Short Description: a fabulous biography by my friend Jason Roberts, it’s won huge accolades
My upcoming work titled "Valencia '73: How I Turned 21 in Spain, Learned About Sex and Life, Dodged Interpol and Guardia Civil, Managed to Pass Art History...and Discovered I Was a Writer" is the sto