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I thought I wrote a post here about the Bay Area Book Festival but I don’t see it. I have had some lengthy behind-the-scenes issues with my websites that are too boring and demoralizing to go into. But I’m back now!

If you came to the festival, thank you for your support!!

Here’s a quick wrap up of my panel at the Bay Area Book Festival at the end of May.

First of all, our entire trip to San Francisco was fantastic. We had an amazing time.

We stayed with friends who were terrific hosts. We had an amazing tour at Internet Archive. We did a few touristy sight-seeing things – it’s was a picture perfect day. Super amazing.

Here we are. It’s L to R Naomi Darling who was the moderator and she is a book influencer and really good. And then Tashia Hart who is a writer but also does arty things, film making and things with food. (Here’s her YouTube Channel), Me as Pen Name, and Dani Trujillo who has 2 books out and some other writing out there.

I didn’t see as much of the festival as I would have liked but I did catch a couple of panels and walked through a lot of the booths. So many people selling and buying books. It was wonderful to see so many book lovers.

Also: my books I bought and had shipped for the book signing arrived a week late. So that was fun. I had a few books to put out there. I have a stack of paperbacks here — if you would like one, please get in touch.

All in all an amazing experience (except my books being late.)

I did a terrible job of taking pictures but we had dinner at the classic Scoma’s and outside are the fishing boats and there were a whole bunch of birds hanging out. An informed friend tells me that this is a Black-crowned Night Heron. A man explained to us that there are anchovies under those screens to be used for bait and the birds were waiting for an easy snack.

That’s the scoop!

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