Shawna’s Blog

Packing and typing as fast as I can, heading to Los Angeles with Cara Bruce to present Robot Hearts at Hustler Hollywood on Thursday and Laguna Beach Books on Friday. Can’t wait to meet many of the contributors for the first time! Some of my online UCLA students are supposed to show. I’ve got plans to lunch with journalist Tiffanie Gabrielse in Boston on my 5-hour (!) layover en route. Plans to lunch with some reality show peeps once there. Plans to see and hug as many old friends as possible, including Jillian Lauren, who we are opening for in LB, Clint Catalyst (pictured here with Pleasant Gehman and Iris Berry, from LAST time we read at Hustler), magazine guru Roger Gastman, and RH contributor/mentor/feminista fabulosa Shira Tarrant, among many others. Oh yeah, and my husband needs to borrow a small amp for our reading (he’s proving the music with Low Victor Echo). Help? Who shows up or what happens in LA is always a hoot. Surprise me!