Blog Posts for Jane Ganahl

Trumpeting the re-release of my 2005 anthology!

Jane Ganahl — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:24:37 -0700

Hi everyone and sorry for the long-delayed entry. I've been busy trying to make a living - not the easiest thing for a freelancer in this economy! But now I must pause to boast about a Very Cool Development: the re-release of an anthology I edited in 2005 called Single Woman of a Certain Age: Romantic Escapades, Shifting Shapes... and Serene Independence. It came out first in hardcover via Inner ...

Cool new website interviews me

Jane Ganahl — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:41:08 -0800

There's a very cool new website for women now in the 'net universe: Betty Confidential. It's cleverly written, non-dogmatic, an interesting mix of popular culture, politics, arts, books, stuff for moms and single ladies alike. I love it, and look at it nearly every day. (My one complaint is that they have that horrible video of Sarah Palin yakking away about something mindless while a ...

The joys of no longer being a newspaper journalist!

Jane Ganahl — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:47:19 -0700

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. Because I was, after all, a member of the Fourth Estate - banned from participating in anything resembling a CAUSE. In my thirties, I slipped up and spoke before the City Council in my home town of Half Moon Bay, ...

Litquake: Whew - whadda week!!

Jane Ganahl — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:53:11 -0700

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! As co-artistic director, my duties this year were less of the menial variety and more of the figurehead variety - introducing events, troubleshooting, seeing and being seen, etc. But for some reason it was no less frantic! In years ...

Litquake's almost here!

Jane Ganahl — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:45:42 -0700

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! Litquake is my baby - founded almost ten years ago with a handful of other writers, for fans of the written word in the SF Bay Area. We've grown from one afternoon and 20 authors, to 8 days, 450 authors in more than 75 ...

I'm on Huffington Post again!

Jane Ganahl — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:52:37 -0700

As always, I'm late on the draw here. But I wanted to let you know that a week or so ago, I had a fun post on HuffPo, the Mecca of great blogging. It dealt with my thoughts and feelings (and extreme neurosis) about someone nice I was (ahem) dating for a few months. And although that has now imploded, I still thought my rant was amusing enough to share. I figured I'd get a ton of hate mail, but ...

The highs and lows of book tour

Jane Ganahl — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:01:44 -0700

It's SHAMEFUL that it's been so long since I blogged in this space! Call it circuit overload due to paperback release (i.e. Good Excuse #516, right up there with pulling a hamstring in Zoomba cardio class - something I've also done lately) or the general need to write for money-making purposes, but blogging has taken not just a backseat, but a rumble seat. (Is my age showing? Is it? You damn kids ...

Want to be rewarded for great writing? Move to Canada!

Jane Ganahl — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:17:29 -0800

I went to Vancouver, BC, for a reading recently, and am still trying to wrap my brain around an event I attended there. My two hostess friends there, Fanny Kiefer (a renowned TV interviewer) and Cindy Grauer (who basically knows everyone in power and is therefore a powerhouse herself) invited me to a luncheon honoring Canada's best non-fiction writers. The three semi-finalists of British ...

For Patry, whom I've never met!

Jane Ganahl — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:16:43 -0800

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. What an outpouring of wonderful support for Patry Francis! I'm also happy to have played a small part in this effort: my friend Victoria Zackheim, also a Red Room author, told me about this effort weeks ago, and I brought the idea to the ...

Shameless huckstering

Jane Ganahl — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:07:32 -0800

It’s come to my attention that a very small number of authors don’t understand the concept of self-promotion. (“But I’m a genius! The world should beat a path to my door, dammit!”) Or, they have so many millions of dollars stuffed under their box springs that they don’t have to do it anymore. I fall into neither category. I am pretty good at self-promotion, though I’ve met authors ...