I Was a Teenage Dominatrix (Last Gasp)
I Was a Teenage Dominatrix (Random House, UK)
I Was a Teenage Dominatrix (Retro-Systems)
I Was a Teenage Dominatrix (Baldini-Castaldi)
My first book is ten years old this year. It’s been a wild ride. I seriously wrote it thinking “no one would ever read it anyway.” My old hometown free weekly recently featured I Was a Teenage Dominatrix in its book club; the results can be found here. Nice to see my little book still gets some press and is even still in print, thanks to my publishers and anyone whose ever given it their time. Feeling full of gratitude this morning…
See? I’m not the only one who has been obsessed with those street performers on Hollywood Boulevard. The latest coverage of them (since my book, 
Artists have been known to struggle and writers, especially, can lead a lonely existence due to the very nature of our work. Somehow I got lucky and have the bestest friends in the whole world. My friend Carol Brown surprised me at my recent reading in Richmond by bringing this gorgeous confectionary version of my book, Imposters! It was vegan chocolate raspberry inside…and delicious. Amazing.
Once in awhile a journalist comes along who actually takes the time to read your work and ask you good questions. Yay for 
I will be co-teaching a writing workshop in Baltimore with friend & fellow writer Cara Bruce. I taught a similar 6-week workshop in Wilmington, NC where the focus was on nonfiction. The advantage of teaching with Cara is that she’ll bring her fiction and editorial expertise into the mix; she has run a small publishing company of her own, published lots of fiction and edited numerous anthologies. Our belief is that life stories can be molded into memoir, essays or fiction–why limit yourself by genre? My hope is that students will benefit from our feedback as well as that of a supportive writing community.