Sidebar Goodies!
There are a lot of new and exciting things going on in my blog sidebar these days…

I’ve added a widget to my goodreads.com book page so you can check out what I’m reading. I’ll be adding books to this page periodically so keep checking back.

I also added a widget to my new flickr.com page where I’ve begun uploading some of my photos. I’ll be adding more photos as I go through all the photos on my computer. I’ve been wanting to start a flickr page for a long time now, and finally just sat down and started uploading photos. So if you like photography, check out my photos.

One of the most exciting new things in my blog sidebar is the link to buy the erotic fiction anthology I’m on the cover of, 39 and Holding… Him. You know you want to buy the book, so go ahead and buy it!

And don’t forget to buy Noveltown products while you’re buying! I’ve put the links to buy Lords: Part One by N.L. Belardes and the Noveltown Review literary magazine in my blog sidebar. If you don’t already have these Noveltown products you’ll want to pick them up!

All these new sidebar items sure make my blog sidebar more colorful… and hopefully fun for you all too. So get to clicking...

Labels: 39 and Holding... Him, Blogging, blogs, books, erotic fiction, erotica, flickr, good reads, Lords: Part One, Noveltown, Photography, Reading

  posted by Matildakay at 10:53 PM 0 comments

The Dalloways in Video!
The Dalloways debuted their new music video for the title track from their new EP Dirty Money and Filthy Love at last Friday night's show.

Check out the Music Video filmed by Hectic Films:



Also check out this Dalloways Mini-Documentary by ABC23/Noveltown's own N.L. Belardes:



Buy the Dalloways EP at: CD Baby.

Labels: ABC 23, Dirty Money and Filthy Love, Hectic Films, music video, N.L. Belardes, Noveltown, The Dalloways, video, youtube.com

  posted by Matildakay at 1:28 PM 0 comments

Great story about the Writers of the Nervous Breakdown blog community
N.L. of Noveltown and ABC23 wrote a great story about the writers of the Nervous Breakdown blog community. TheNervousBreakdown.com is one of my favorite literary blog sites because of the quality of the writing.



Check out N.L.'s article and mini-documentary on TheNervousBreakdown.com. Not only does Rich Ferguson do some great performance art, Brad Listi and Lenore Zion both make some incredible remarks. Brenda Knight adds some zest in the article when she talks about J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and the Beat Generation and how they would form blog communities if around today.

Check out the article, "Non-Striking Writers Form Attention-Getting Blog Site"

Here's an Excerpt:

Nick Belardes of ABC23 caught up with the brainchild of the site, LA Times best selling author of "Attention. Deficit. Disorder," Brad Listi, and some of the writers of thenervousbreakdown.com near downtown Los Angeles to find out just what the buzz was all about.

Listi, also a professor at Santa Monica College, said, "It's a site that features a multitude of great writers, literary writers from around the world." He added, "What separates us from a lot of other blog sites, or whatever you'd like to call it, is that we're featuring writing of a real literary quality, and it's a one-stop place where readers who are enthusiastic about quality writing can come on a daily basis and hear from all these great voices."

View Slideshow of Related Pics of Listi, Ferguson and Zion.



If you're looking for a blog site that has a good variety of great literary writers, TheNervousBreakdown.com is it!

Labels: Brad Listi, Lenore Zion, Literary, N.L. Belardes, Noveltown, Rich Ferguson, The Nervous Breakdown, TheNervousBreakdown.com, writers, Writing

  posted by Matildakay at 7:01 PM 0 comments

Women on the edge, writing from the edge


On one of my weekly treks to the Noveltown postal hub where big puffy packages arrive full of books, I opened Women on the Edge Writing from Los Angeles, edited by Samantha Dunn and Julianne Ortale. Dunn sent the book of short stories for N.L. Belardes of Noveltown to read and review. Good thing he never got the chance.

The title, Women on the Edge, and the Andy Warhol-style pop art faces of the women authors on the book cover called out to me as if they knew what I needed to know: revelations in writing and life from women writers.

I discovered compelling literary stories from women who have experienced hard lives, emotional times, strange events, unexpected turns and twists, and women who were unafraid to face obstacles. After reading such haunting stories I can easily say Belardes is not getting this book back.



Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander, wrote the foreword for Women on the Edge.

I pondered one of her quotes:

“Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars. Out here we is stoned, immaculate.”~The Doors, from L.A. Woman

Not a huge Doors fan, I wondered how a rock music quote could encapsulate women on the edge, writing from the edge. With each story I read, the subtle nuances, the profound moments, the hard emotions, and Fitch’s words in the foreword about these stories and women authors echoed true. Women on the Edge stories were about women at varying stages of life experiencing the beauty of life at its messiest.

I found myself living through the characters as if their experiences were my own. I understood Mrs. Poovey’s need to feel useful and needed again in Julianne Ortale’s Milk, and Debbie’s ostracization as a school girl in Aimee Bender’s Debbieland, or having to put a grandmother away in a home in Dylan Landis’ Rose, or wanting to know if love is somewhere in your future in Liz Gonzalez’s Destiny, and dealing with the loss of a loved one in Jody Hauber’s Between the Dog and the Wolf. These were stories from the heart about women whom I felt I was or had been at some point in my life.



The characters haunted me. So did the writing. I was just as enthralled with the language, beautiful prose and fine sentences expertly disguised within the hard, dark and emotional circumstances of each story.

In the end, I realize the beauty of Women on the Edge is the stories within tell a tale of what it is to be a woman. And that story links the contributing women authors and characters to women everywhere out on the edge, which is life.


Samantha Dunn - Photo by: Lupe Fernandez

You will want to read these stories!

Women on the Edge Writing from Los Angeles
Authors/Stories:
Karen Horn, Levinium 241
Julianne Ortale, Milk
Erin Julia McGuire, Crowfeathers
Aimee Bender, Debbieland
Samantha Dunn, Going Green
Lindsay Fitzgerald, Hunger
Dylan Landis, Rose
Lisa Teasley, Magda in Rosarito, Beached
Lisa Glatt, Ludlow
Abby Mims, Me and Mr. Jones
Michelle Latiolais, Boys
Rachel Resnick, Meat-Eaters of Marrakesh
Liz Gonzalez, Destiny
Anita Santiago, Flying Blind
Carol Muske-Dukes, Contraband
Rochelle Low, Where Angels Tread
Jody Hauber, Between the Dog and the Wolf
Mary Rakow, The Memory Room

Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with Samantha Dunn about Women on the Edge Writing from Los Angeles and how this wonderful collection of short stories came together.

(Read the full blog and the interview with Samantha Dunn on Noveltown's blog Papaerback Writer.)

Labels: literary fiction, Los Angeles, Noveltown, Samantha Dunn, short stories, The Doors, women on the edge, Women on the Edge Writing from Los Angeles, women's fiction, Writing, writing from the edge

  posted by Matildakay at 7:32 PM 1 comments

Yosemite Writers Conference: A Conversation about Blogging
In today’s world, blogging has become a way of life for many people and corporations. It’s an instantaneous way to connect with people. For writers, blogging should be a natural progression, a promotional tool and a way to personally reach readers and build a fan base.



This year’s Yosemite Writers Conference workshop, “Blogging Your Way to Fame” was taught by N.L. Belardes of ABC23 and Noveltown (noveltown.net/blog), Genevieve Choate of the Fresno Bee and Momologue, and Rik Bollman a Las Vegas writer/blogger and radio host, three individuals for whom blogging is not only a way of life, but a necessary part of being a writer. Three individuals who understood that blogging is not just posting a blog and hoping a handful of anonymous people on the Internet find it and read it. No, blogging is about so much more.

Blogging is about using your voice to capture attention for yourself as a writer and about using your voice as a community service. Blogging is about having a sense of integrity, being humble, and being smart about what you write. Blogging is not about what you ate for lunch, but rather it’s about getting out there in your community and finding original content to write about. Blogging is about having a conversation with people and that is what is truly unique about blogging.

Since blogging is a conversation with people, N.L., Genevieve, and Rik broke panel tradition and had a conversation with the workshop attendees about blogging. Everyone responded and interacted as if we were all sitting around an informal dinner table discussing blogging. For those who were new to the conversation, this method seemed to demystify blogging and make it less daunting. As a blogger myself, I felt this conversational format was most effective.

Gone was all the techy talk and html, instead the discussion centered on how writers can use blogging to build their author platform and a community of readers. By spending time on social networking sites such as myspace.com promoting your blog, book and/or yourself as a writer, by posting compelling content and updating your blog often and through grassroots promotion you can build a fan base and a platform that editors and agents will notice. Belardes stated, “You have to sacrifice time to promote yourself.” He also stressed the importance of having a presence on social networking sites.

Even though Belardes stated that blogging most likely won’t make you famous, he did discuss how blogging could help you get where you want to go as a writer, for you never know who’s reading your blog. In the blogosphere, if you build it they will come. Blogging will grow an audience for your writing.



It was prearranged for me to help people in the workshop immediately sign up for a blog. With laptops available, I was able to answer questions and help a few people sign up at the end of the blogging workshop and later that evening in the Tenaya Lodge Jackalope restaurant. I think it was helpful for those new to blogging to have a computer and a person available to walk them through the process of setting up their blog. Hopefully they will continue their journey into the blogosphere and towards building an audience.

More on the 2007 Yosemite Writers Conference:

Is Book Publishing Dead?
Yosemite Writers Conference: A Conversation about Blogging
Rambo Creator Reinvents Captain America
Yosemite Writers Conference: Demystifying Chick lit and Women’s fiction
Yosemite Writers Conference: Poetry talk
Mystery talk after David Morrell's big speech
2007 Yosemite Writers Conference: Brenda Knight Sidesteps the TVA man
Yosemite Writers and the Chukchansi bathroom break
Headed to Yosemite Writers Conference to talk writing for social change

Labels: ABC23, Blogging, cross promotion, Fresno Bee, Genevieve Choate, N.L. Belardes, Noveltown, Rik Bollman, social networking, Yosemite Writer's Conference

  posted by Matildakay at 12:49 AM 1 comments

Yosemite Writers Conference: Demystifying Chick lit and Women’s fiction
I remember the reactions I received last year during the 2006 Yosemite Writers Conference when I said "women's fiction" was the genre my writing fell into. Some people assumed I wrote chick lit and responded as if it wasn't a real genre.

Why such a reaction? What’s wrong with women’s fiction? Nothing. I was simply a minority in a sea of mystery and thriller writers.

So I was excited to learn that at this year’s conference Farrin Jacobs, co-author of See Jane Write: A Girl’s Guide to Writing Chick lit, which I bought at last year’s conference, and a former chick lit editor was conducting a workshop called “Chick lit is dead and other myths about women’s fiction.”





Is chick lit dead? According to Jacobs chick lit is not dead, however, because of its popularity and market saturation it’s harder to get chick lit published now than a few years ago.

In a heavily saturated market, how do you get your chick lit novel or women’s fiction novel published? Quite simply, you have to make your novel stand out. Jacobs stated, “you have to have perfectly imperfect main characters that are identifiable to every woman; you have to get your chick lit voice down and write the novel you want to write, and you have to know your audience.”

The thing that chick lit or women’s fiction does very well is deal with tough issues in a humorous, human way. A perfect example is Jennifer Weiner’s debut novel, Good in Bed, where she wrote:

“Loving a Larger Woman,” said the headline, “By Bruce Guberman.” Bruce Guberman had been my boyfriend for just over three years, until we’d decided to take a break three months ago. And the Larger Woman, I could only assume, was me.”

Weiner, who is now a household name in the world of chick lit, cleverly propels her character and the reader on a journey of self-esteem issues and self-discovery that is poignant, endearing and quite funny.

And let’s not forget Helen Fielding, the queen of chick lit who created the character of Bridget Jones and gave her to the world through her novels Bridget Jones' Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. For Bridget Jones lurks in every woman everywhere no matter how hard we try to hide her.

Chick lit as we know it today stems from or is modernized Jane Austin. Jane Austin is the real first lady of chick lit or women’s fiction. She helped create a genre for women when it wasn’t fashionable to be a woman author.

What I love about chick lit or women’s fiction is that it deals with the tough issues, the emotional issues, and while the writing can be very literary, it’s also smart and humorous, like women.

Jacobs covered the basics of writing chick lit and women’s fiction in her workshop discussing the importance of character development, character arc, pacing, plot, tense, point of view, the art of having a storytelling device, and the ending. “Chick lit wants either a happy ending or the promise of a happy ending,” Jacobs stated, “however, if your work is more literary your ending may be more ambiguous.”



The chick lit label does come with somewhat of a stigma. I think it has to do with all the pink book covers and references to shoes. Which is great for marketing, but for some reason the term chick lit sends a message that its not serious fiction. Whereas the term women’s fiction seems to have more depth. In a recent interview with Lara Tupper, author of A Thousand and One Nights, I asked her thoughts about chick lit and the chick lit label.

Here’s what Tupper had to say:

“I think the chick-lit label is problematic because it implies that a book is meant to be read by a certain demographic. And I find the term itself a little confusing-- not at all subversive (as in “we are chicks, hear us roar”). It’s become synonymous with ‘light’ subject matter and I’m not sure why that is. Because it’s written by women about women? A book such as Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity (a book I adore) is also a novel about pop songs and relationships. It’s narrated from a male point of view and yet it’s certainly not a book meant only for men. So I think the label chick lit points to a misconception or a double standard based on gender: Women write books for women while men write books for all.

That said, I think there’s nothing wrong with ‘light’—and I think it’s entirely possible for novels to be both ‘entertaining’ and substantive. In A Thousand and One Nights, I try to use pop lyrics in service of humor and to place the reader quite firmly in the mid to late 1990’s. But I also try to say something about disillusionment.”

I agree with Tupper that the label chick lit can have some negative connotations. It’s almost like saying men read real books and women read the pink fluffy books called chick lit. However, some chick lit can be just as compelling as the 'real' books. I’ve laughed and cried my way through chick lit just as I have more literary works.

As a reader and writer of chick lit and women’s fiction, I was pleased to have the genre represented at the conference and presented so well by Farrin Jacobs. I learned a lot more about chick lit and women’s fiction, why I love it and why I want to write it.

More on the 2007 Yosemite Writers Conference:

Yosemite Writers Conference: Demystifying Chick lit and Women’s fiction
Yosemite Writers Conference: Poetry talk
Mystery talk after David Morrell's big speech
2007 Yosemite Writers Conference: Brenda Knight Sidesteps the TVA man
Yosemite Writers and the Chukchansi bathroom break
Headed to Yosemite Writers Conference to talk writing for social change

Labels: Bridget Jones' Diary, chick lit, Farrin Jacobs, Fiction, Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner, Lara Tupper, Literary, Noveltown, women's fiction, Yosemite Writers Conference

  posted by Matildakay at 7:37 PM 1 comments

Yosemite Writers Conference: Poetry talk
Kate Gale, editor of Red Hen Press out of Los Angeles, California, sat reading from a poetry book before beginning her workshop “Editing Poetry: Entering the process whole and coming out humming.” Her wet hair fresh from the Tenaya Lodge swimming pool was a metaphor for her no bullshit attitude about poetry.

Is poetry still being published? At another panel I heard someone say poetry was dead. According to Gale, poetry is not dead, but you won’t get rich publishing poetry. I for one was excited that there was a poetry workshop at this year’s conference for I am a lover of poetry.

Gale opened the workshop reading two poems, one from the book she had been reading by another poet and one of her own that she had been working on for a few weeks. Her poem was rich in imagery, emotion, insecurities, and fireworks, literally fireworks as she found a way to express a woman’s self-worth issues and her desire to receive recognition from her lover as a request for fireworks. I may not be interpreting her poem correctly, but I loved Gale’s voice. Her poem grabbed my attention and took me on a journey.

I found the poetry workshop very constructive and informative as Gale mapped out the process of writing and publishing poetry. She answered questions regarding publishing poetry in literary magazines and publishing collections of poetry that I have always wondered about.

She stressed the importance of reading poetry to get in a poetry frame of mind before writing. Of making writing a practice and a priority, good advice for any writer. How important creative writing workshops are that will give you rigorous feedback on your work. And what type of poetry is currently being published.

One thing Gale said that really stood out to me is, “Great poems are where the creative meets the intellectual.”

And really that is the type of poetry I want to read and write.

More on the 2007 Yosemite Writers Conference:

Mystery talk after David Morrell's big speech
2007 Yosemite Writers Conference: Brenda Knight Sidesteps the TVA man
Yosemite Writers and the Chukchansi bathroom break
Headed to Yosemite Writers Conference to talk writing for social change

Labels: Kate Gale, Noveltown, Poetry, publishing, Red Hen Press, workshops, Writing

  posted by Matildakay at 9:11 PM 0 comments

Yosemite Writers and the Chukchansi bathroom break
This afternoon N.L. and I hit the road for the Yosemite Writers Conference. Along the way we talked about writing, writers, blogging, social change, social networking sites, local media, the conference, and even rocks and geology all while the Killers blasted from the radio a song about a Las Vegas casino called Sam’s Town. We both agreed that it takes more than just being a great writer to get published. It’s about the connections you make, your author platform, and self-promotion. All that networking along with your great writing might just be the luck you need to connect with a literary agent or editor at a writer’s conference to become a published author.

Luck is hard to come by in the literary world on the quest to be published. You can’t wait for luck. You have to make things happen. You have to take risks. You have to put yourself out there.

At the time we didn’t know a casino up the road and a little luck would be the beginning of our Yosemite Writers Conference experience.

Not big gamblers N.L. and I are not big fans of casinos, however, the Chukchansi casino on Highway 41 seemed like a great place to stop for a bathroom break.

We walked through the casino past zombie-like gamblers feeding slot machines as the festive sounds of the spinning slot machine wheels filled our ears. It was intoxicating. Those bells and whistles, the spinning numbers, the chance to be lucky, the dream of a big jackpot, everyone was hypnotized.

N.L. and I decided to spend five dollars on the Wheel of Fortune dollar slot machines. I only had three ones so I put them in a machine and hit “bet max credit” the wheels spun around and I lost my three dollars. That was enough gambling for us. We decided to check out the restaurants.

We walked past a few restaurants when a slot machine with flying spinning balls caught our attention. It was a Big Spin Slotto (lotto) dollar slot machine. The flying balls were cool we decided to waste a few more dollars. I put ten dollars into the Slotto machine and bet one credit at a time to make the experience last longer than three seconds. On my last dollar the wheels spun around two sevens and a triple space, I had won. N.L. and I watched the credits add up to $454! We both hit the cash-out button and found a cashier.


That face is one of total shock!

Luck?

I’ve never been that lucky before, but by investing thirteen dollars I had just covered my conference expenses. I would call that luck.

Basking in my lucky winnings, we ate dinner at an Asian restaurant in the casino. At the end of the meal, the fortune in my fortune cookie said: “You will gain money by a speculation or lottery.”

A strange coincidence?

I wonder what Hazel Dixon-Cooper, Cosmopolitan’s bedside astrologer, author of Born on a Rotten Day and Love on a Rotten Day, and a presenter at this year’s Yosemite Writers Conference would have to say about it.

Perhaps this stroke of luck will continue through the conference and the connections N.L. and I make for Noveltown and for our own writing careers.

Labels: casinos, Chukchansi casino, gamboling, Hazel Dixon-Cooper, luck, Noveltown, slot machines, Yosemite Writers Conference

  posted by Matildakay at 11:55 PM 0 comments

Schedule for the Yosemite Writers Conference
In a recent interview with Bonnie Hearn Hill about the Yosemite Writers Conference, she stated:

“We have four workshops an hour geared for everyone at every stage of her/his career; however, we encourage writers to follow their passion. If a beginning writer wants to attend a workshop on how to sell books to film, that’s fine. I should add that we have a talented sound professional from Hawaii recording all of the workshops, so if you miss one you think you might like, you can purchase a CD.”

Wow! That’s a lot of workshops! And there are a lot of great topics being covered! There are a couple of timeslots where I wish I could clone myself and sit in two workshops at the same time. I just might have to purchase a CD of the workshops so I don’t miss anything.

Take a look at the schedule of workshops for next week’s Yosemite Writers Conference:

Friday August 24:

9:15 – 10:15 AM –
Sharpen Your Hooks – Fiction
Writing For Social Change
Writing and Publishing Your Memoir
Writing Anthologies For the Soul

10:45 – 11:45 AM –
Ghosting Where the Money is: A Guide to Co-authoring
How to Stand Out in the Nonfiction Market
Selling to Chronicle Books
Editing Poetry: Entering the process whole and coming out humming

1:45 – 2:45 PM –
All About Platform: If You Build It, They Will Come
Spiritual Writing in the Age of The Secret
Selling to Tor Books
Chick Lit is Dead, and Other Myths About Women's Fiction

3:00 – 4:00 PM –
How to Pitch an Editor
Rates, rights and rules of engagement: What you need to know about magazine freelancing
Selling to Weiser Books
Take Your Book to the Movies

Saturday August 25:

9:15 – 10:15 AM –
He, She and the Dreaded Omniscient: Point of View at Close Range
Confessions of a Contest Judge
Picture Book Manuscript Critique
Beyond the Basics - What Every Author Needs to Know Before, During and After Publication

10:45 – 11: 45 AM –
Sharpen your Hooks – Nonfiction
Blogging Your Way to Fame

1:45 – 2:45 PM –
How to Pitch an Agent
Murder, They Wrote: A Guide to Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers
Writing for Guideposts

3:00 – 4:00 PM –
Tapping the Hot YA Market
Invisible Genius: Ghostwriting for The Penn Group
Twisting the Mystery Plot

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www.yosemitewriters.com

Labels: Bonnie Hearn Hill, editors, Fiction, literary agents, Mystery, non-fiction, Noveltown, women's fiction, workshops, Writing, Yosemite Writers Conference

  posted by Matildakay at 1:25 PM 0 comments

Are you going to the Yosemite Writers Conference?
There's still time to sign up!

The Yosemite Writers Conference is just around the corner. Quite literally. In fact its next week, August 24-26. My excitement is growing by leaps and bounds. I can’t wait to be among so many great writers that I admire. I can’t wait to attend the workshops and panels and soak up all the knowledge I can about writing and the publishing world. I can’t wait to connect to writers from all over the country. I can’t wait to be inspired!

Noveltown is going. Are you?

Want to meet literary agents, publishers, editors, and authors?

Want to learn about the many facets of writing in today’s literary world?

Whether you’re a published author or just realized that you want to be a writer, the Yosemite Writer’s Conference is for you.

Noveltown’s own N.L. Belardes will be speaking at this year’s Yosemite Writer’s Conference, among many others. (Read my previous interview with N.L. about his speaking at the YWC).

I’ve literally been vibrating with anticipation for the Yosemite Writers Conference. I couldn’t take it anymore. I needed a preview. You know, like a movie trailer. A teaser. The coming attractions as it were. I went straight to the source. I tracked down Bonnie Hearn Hill, accomplished novelist, instructor and one of many who work very hard each year to put on the Yosemite Writers Conference and I asked her a few questions about what we could expect at this years conference.

She was kind enough to oblige me, instruct me, and encourage me. Read the interview.

Bonnie Hearn Hill
Volunteer faculty
Novelist and instructor

Noveltown: Who are the ‘big’ agents and editors attending the Yosemite Writers Conference this year?

BHH: Please, honey. Never use orphan quotes, and especially not single orphan quotes. I’m excited about all of our agents. Irene Webb is a top film agent. June Clark specializes in nonfiction and works for a leading New York agency. Katharine Sands is also with a major NY firm, and Jeffery McGraw and Arlene Cardoza are building their lists and actively seeking new writers. This is a great opportunity to learn from the people who are in the best position to know what sells.

Noveltown: Which conference panel or workshop are you most excited about this year?

BHH: I’m really excited about the young adult panel. That’s a great market, and we have Farrin Jacobs from HarperCollins, Susan Chang from Tor, along with Melissa Manlove from Chronicle Books. Melissa is also presenting a two-hour picture book critique workshop, and she’s actually doing free line edits. For those who are ready to test their work, the Sharpen Your Hooks workshops are an almost painless way to get feedback. For the first time this year, we’re offering one for fiction and one for nonfiction. Also for the first time, we’re offering two workshops on the high-paying ghostwriting field with representatives of a New York ghostwriting firm, and a magazine-writing panel for those who want to write articles. So I sound as if I’m excited about everything, right? For me, though, the most intriguing might be the Sunday morning one with our Saturday keynote David Morrell, the author who created Rambo. David is actively involved in the conference this year, and he asked if he could do a bonus workshop on Sunday on marketing for writers. I can’t wait.

(Read the full blog and interview on Paperback Writer)

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www.noveltown.net
www.yosemitewriters.com

Labels: Bonnie Hearn Hill, editors, literary agents, N.L. Belardes, Noveltown, Writing, Yosemite Writers Conference

  posted by Matildakay at 11:29 AM 0 comments

Are you doing your Summer Reading?
Remember when you were a kid and your teachers would send a recommended summer reading list home with you at the end of the school year hoping you would do more than just play video games, like improve your mind. How many of you were good boys and girls and actually read a few books on the recommended summer reading list? How much did your summer reading influence your life as a child? As an adult? Is reading a passion in your life?

I don’t know about you, but I’m always reading. I have a stack of books at home that are in my “to be read” pile, but I continue to buy more books. I can’t help myself. My logic is I’ll eventually read them all.

Noveltown is not only passionate about writers, we’re passionate about readers too! Without readers the Indie literary presses and the publishing world would come to a screeching halt and eventually cease to exist. Books would become coasters, or those things you press flowers in, or worse! I don’t even want to imagine a world without books, its too horrible a thought. For in books our imaginations run free within world’s writers create for us. J. K. Rowling is the most successful author ever because of readers!

It’s mid summer and Noveltown just wanted to check in on you to make sure you’re doing your summer reading…

For all of you Paperback Writer readers who are book sluts, word whores, always carry a book with you in your purse or backpack, read while laying out by the pool, on the beach or by a lake, and plan what books you’re taking with you on vacation we’ve got some fabulous recommended summer reading for you.

(Read the full blog on Paperback Writer for great summer reading recommendations from Salon.com and Noveltown)

Labels: Bakersfield, J.K. Rowling, Literary, memoirs, novels, Noveltown, Reading

  posted by Matildakay at 9:45 AM 0 comments

Memoir discussions...
I discovered interesting discussions on the memoir this week and shared the ins and outs of the memoir with everyone at Noveltown.

Here's a little bit about the memoir:

Recently, I finished reading Alice Sebold’s memoir: Lucky, a courageous tale of her brutal rape as a college freshman and the transformation in her life that followed. Typically I read more novels than I do memoirs. I don’t know that I would ever have picked up a memoir about a violent rape if Alice Sebold hadn’t been the author. It’s not that I can’t handle reading about rape or violence, but perhaps it’s the trueness of the subject and the personal connection to the author that changes the reality of the words. In a memoir the author shares a little piece of their soul with you in the telling of their story.

However, I find Sebold’s writing so compelling, so open and enchanting, I couldn’t help myself. She took a horrific story of rape and turned it into a story about her life I could not stop reading. The affect of a brutal rape on a person’s life was never more revealing to me than when Sebold stated: “After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes.”

After having just devoured Sebold’s memoir, I was ecstatic to find a great discussion on memoirs this week over on the Pub Rants blog from literary agent Kristin who participated in a panel at the Backspace Conference entitled: How to Publish a Memoir if You Aren’t Famous. She wrote several blogs discussing memoirs, which turned out to be the most popular genre at the Backspace Conference. She also brought up some great points that I just had to share with all of you writers contemplating writing a memoir.

Kristin writes:

“Lots of people want to write a memoir and it’s also the hardest project to get published by a non-celebrity. And here’s my little rant, very few people actually have stories that are big enough to capture national attention and hence, editor attention.”

What does that mean for those of you writing memoirs? It means that whether you have experienced divorce, or was a child of divorced parents, had abandonment issues, have mental health issues, suffered heartbreak, lived a wild life of sex, drugs and rock and roll, was in the military and went to war, graduated top of your class in college, had cancer, failed in business, lost a child or spouse, was violently attacked, or any other thing that you’ve experienced in your life, millions of other people have experienced them too.

So what sets your story apart from the millions of other similar stories? What makes your story worthy of garnering attention, of being published?

“People need to have a persuasive reason to read your story. Were you famous or associated with someone famous? If not, you have to find a way to tell your story that is so involving and compelling and unique that it grabs the reader from the very first sentence and never lets them go until the end.”

There's a lot more tips about the memoir. Read the full blog and join in the discussion on Paperback Writer.

Labels: Bakersfield, books, Literary, memoir, Noveltown, Paperback Writer, Writing

  posted by Matildakay at 3:48 PM 0 comments

Old Church in Santa Monica
On my birthday, Noveltown attended a Small Press Book Fair at an old church in Santa Monica that had stained glass windows and quaint features.

Here are a few photos from the old church in Santa Monica...

Labels: birthday, Noveltown, Old Church, Photography, Santa Monica, Small Press Book Fair

  posted by Matildakay at 9:43 PM 2 comments

39
I turned 39 this past Monday on Memorial Day. Which was kind of fitting considering this is the last year of my 30’s. Wow! It’s really weird to say that.

39 didn’t really start to sink in until the night before my birthday when it hit me like a giant cartoon sledgehammer right over the head. How could I be 39 years old? I wondered. I don’t feel 39. What does 39 feel like anyway? I thought I had avoided the dreaded Gemini anxiety this year, but there it was like a ghost staring me in the face screaming 39.

In 39 years I have never figured out how to deal with the Gemini anxiety. I can only compare it to an anxiety attack. Having to face your age and the confusion of life on the day you were born as if birthdays bring wisdom or meaning makes me anxious. Because really I have no clue what I’m doing.

The day before my birthday I sat in the Harvey Auditorium listening to Bakersfield High School teachers and students speaking what they hoped were inspirational words to the graduates at a baccalaureate ceremony, when I heard the Mathematics Chair admit: “Life is confusing and I still have no clue what I’m doing.” It took guts to admit that to a graduating class and it made me feel so much better to know I wasn’t alone in my confusion. He went on to say that: “Whatever life throws at you, I know you can handle it.” In 39 years, that is truly the one thing I have learned.

39 is about opportunities. I can just feel it. It’s about finding ways to celebrate life. It’s about being a zombie in Hectic Films horror film. It’s about a project that celebrates being 39 forever, immortally and an opportunity that could potentially be bigger than I imagine. I’ll tell you all about this project when the time is right to announce it. It’s about change. I can feel that too. But whatever 39 throws at me… I know I can handle it.

On Memorial Day morning the big 39 and I headed down to Santa Monica with my Noveltown partners, N.L. and chingpea to attend a Small Press Book Fair. We listened to my ipod on the drive down, the shuffle feature was the DJ and for some odd reason the ipod picked all the obscure, rarely listened to music I had. Except for a couple Darren Hayes songs and a few Harry Connick Jr. songs, we were stuck in an easy listening montage from the 80’s and 90’s. I was a little embarrassed every time N.L. asked: “Who’s this?” Crazy! Why isn’t the ipod playing U2, Wilco, The Shins, The Killers, Coldplay, Sting, or anyone else that I listen to all the time? I wondered.

“I didn’t realize you listened to so much easy listening.” N.L. teased.

“I swear I don’t.”

“If you don’t listen to it, what’s it doing on your ipod?” He had me there.

“I listen to it once in a while, but not all the time really.” I tried to regroup. He just laughed at me.

And then a Darren Hayes song I haven’t heard in a while but love came on and I listened as Darren sang…

“Are you where you want to be?
Did you get there easily?
Did they make you sacrifice?
Did you make a sharp left
When you should've turned right?
Are you where you want to be?”

Well that’s an appropriate question for my 39th birthday. I thought. Am I where I want to be? I’ve always answered that question with a no since my divorce because I haven’t ended up where I thought I would when I dreamed of fairy tales. Somewhere along the line I made a sharp left and ended up where I am today. But that sharp left has made me more me than I ever would have been without it.

And then The Fly by U2 began playing on the ipod and I forgot about being 39 as we talked about all things Noveltown.

Soon we arrived at the Small Press Book Fair in Santa Monica, set up Noveltown’s table and began a day of networking with other Small Presses, writers and poets. We met a lot of great people, heard a lot of great poetry and hung out with co-poetry editors for the Noveltown Review Rafael Alvarado and S.A. Griffin. And the Noveltown Review went like hotcakes!




S.A. Griffin reads a few poems.

N.L. will be writing in depth about the Small Press Book Fair and our adventures there so be sure to look for it on Paperback Writer.

The Small Press Book Fair was held in an old church in Santa Monica with stained glass windows. I love stained glass windows. I find them truly beautiful. I had my camera with me and I took a few pictures of the windows and in and around the old church. I’ll share those with you in another post.

After spending most of the day at the book fair it was time to go exploring in Los Angeles. We were all starving having only snacked on muffins and cookies at the book fair. We headed to Hollywood. We had food and Pirates of the Caribbean At World’s End on our brains.

We found one of our favorite burger joints, Astro Burgers, and gobbled up our food while we picked songs on the tabletop jukebox.




Notice the green mohawk and chingpea's cameo!

Afterwards we headed to Disney’s El Capitan theatre on Hollywood Blvd. We wanted to see Pirates of the Caribbean At World’s End in a famous theatre but all the shows were sold out.



So we drove to Universal City walk to see if we could see Pirates at the theatre there. We were able to get tickets and walked around City Walk looking at shops while we waited for the movie to start. The theatre at Universal City Walk is posh with wide plush seats, lots of leg room and a huge screen. Let me tell you Captain Jack looks really good on Universal’s giant screen. I enjoyed the movie even better the second time around. We spent most of the drive home dissecting and discussing Pirates 3.

It was the perfect ending to a great day. I usually prefer for my birthdays to go by quietly. No big fuss. I don’t want to be the center of attention. I just want to be remembered by the people I love. And that is exactly what 39 Memorial Day was.

Labels: 39, birthday, Captain Jack, Memorial Day, Noveltown, Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End, Small Press Book Fair, The Noveltown Review

  posted by Matildakay at 7:31 PM 8 comments

Matildakay Zombie
A few weeks ago Hectic Films put out a call for people to be zombies in their local zombie movie extravaganza: Wretched Flesh. Last Sunday was the big zombie filming day and I came prepared to put on my best zombie face.

As it turned out there were some talented makeup artists who put my zombie face on for me.



You will be so impressed by the zombie makeup in this movie…

Ricky and Jason of Hectic Films are two hard working, talented local filmmakers and two of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. I was very impressed with the amount of people and filmmakers that came together to make this film project come to life. There was no drama. No competition between the various filmmakers. Just an amazing amount of teamwork and great attitudes from everyone involved who were genuinely happy to be working on the project.

Once I had my zombie face… it was time to become a zombie.

“I already have the zombie walk thanks to knee surgery.” I previously joked.

As it turns out, being a zombie is a little harder than it looks. Especially when it comes time to die.

I joined the other zombies, walking slow and stilted, clawing at the ‘live’ people and other zombieness that you’ll have to wait and see in the movie.

Becoming a character and hiding behind the makeup allows one an escape from reality. How many times have I been a zombie in my own life? How many years have I walked through life like an undead zombie, instead of really living? I wondered. I know there were a few years where I didn’t exist beyond being a zombie. But these days the only place you'll see me being a zombie is in Hectic Films Wretched Flesh.

Although the day of filming was long, in the end it was an extremely rewarding experience to be part of such a great project. I can’t wait to see the finished film.

Read Noveltown’s the making of a zombie movie: part one and see more zombie pics.

Labels: Bakersfield filmmakers, Hectic Films, movies, Noveltown, Wretched Flesh, Zombies

  posted by Matildakay at 11:18 PM 3 comments

Wretched Flesh! Get your Zombie on…
Hectic Films is filming their zombie movie Wretched Flesh this weekend. Are you going to be a zombie? I am! This is your one chance to be a zombie in a Hectic Films horror flick. So come out and get your zombie on… Hectic Films needs all the zombies they can get.

Watch the teaser test video for Wretched Flesh…



Here are all the details from Hectic Films:

“For those of you who don't know… We are making a Zombie Movie called Wretched Flesh. So far we have a lot of the community helping out with to make this local project awesome! We have local bands making songs The Silence Club (of course! We can't make any video without that awesome sound) OP Stylee, Isaac Rocha from Safe Sounds (The song he submitted is the one in the trailer, Awesome huh?) and Dirty Spanglish (their song is actually going to be called Wretched Flesh!!). We need more songs from local bands so if you are interested make a song about zombies! We have also had an extreme amount of help and support from Noveltown (Thanks Guys!). Even Padgett Productions who donated some time at our studio to train some zombies how to get crazy. We would just like to say thanks!

So with the help of some local filmmakers, MeatyDish Productions, Birdloaf, Vindictive Films, Poop Productions, Some guy Named Walter and Stupid Kid Productions, this should be an awesome flick. We will be meeting up at the Down Towner Inn on 13th and Chester on May 20th, 2007 at 2pm. If you wanna be a zombie show up! If you wanna help out show up. If you want to watch show up. If you would like to stop by and take pictures, give us money, feed us show up!!!! We want to make this the biggest no budget production that has ever been here in Bakersfield so come down!

If you want to be a zombie just show up in crappy clothes and the make-up artists will do the rest! We will have some clothes also to use for the shoot. All the make-up artists will be promoted on our site! So stop by and check that out in a few weeks! Along with the bands that make songs for the movie.

Oh yes keep in mind that there is going to be a private showing of the finished project for only those who were in it! So again if you are interested let us know!”

Labels: Bakersfield, filmmakers, Hectic Films, Horror films, Noveltown, Zombies

  posted by Matildakay at 1:31 PM 1 comments

The Noveltown Review
Take a look inside the Noveltown Review...



The newest literary magazine out of the California Central Valley features some great writers from across the country.

Fiction stories by: Brad Listi, N. Frank Daniels, Conrad Romo and Susan Henderson.

Literary articles by: Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Cindy Wathen, N. Frank Daniels, Robin Slick, Susan Henderson and N.L. Belardes.

Poetry by: Matildakay, Rich Ferguson and Jenn Williams.

The layout is classy and goregeous! The writing is outstanding! You won't be able to put it down.

Get your free copy in Bakersfield at Russo's Books at the Marketplace or Metro Art Galleries downtown.

Or order your copy online at www.noveltown.net/books. (Online orders - minimal cost to cover shipping).

Read excerpts from the magazine and see photos from the Noveltown Review's premier Mixer on Paperback Writer.

**Updated: Read Greg Goodsell's review of the Noveltown Review on Bakotopia and leave a comment.

Be Noveltown's friend... add Noveltown on myspace!

Labels: Bakersfield, Brad Listi, California Central Valley, Cindy Wathen, N. Frank Daniels, N.L. Belardes, Noveltown, Rich Ferguson, Robin Slick, Susan Henerson, The Noveltown Review

  posted by Matildakay at 10:47 PM 1 comments

Lara Tupper's A Thousand and One Nights


Lara Tupper is the author of A Thousand and One Nights, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, is a teacher of fiction writing at Rutgers University and a proud member of the Barry Manilow International Fan Club. Sure she has traveled the world as one half of a lounge-singing duo. She artfully infused her debut novel with lounge singing experiences, duo misadventures and tales of exotic locales. And seriously, she’s not afraid to admit her Manilow love!

In A Thousand and One Nights, Tupper takes the reader on an adventure with Karla a 20-something girl trying to figure out her life while faking the glamorous lifestyle of a lounge singer, which turns out not to be so glamorous. Karla soon finds herself in a relationship and lounge-singing duo with Jack and together they travel to foreign locations. I’ve been on a couple cruises myself, and the behind the scenes look at shipboard life had me clawing for a Kleenex from snorting with laughter.

Tupper’s literary ability is to use humor and sadness to tell a poignant tale of a doomed relationship while still remembering to wow you with little details along the way.

You don’t have to be a lounge singer or even an entertainer to relate to the characters in A Thousand and One Nights. I found little pieces of myself effortlessly written between the lines. If you’ve ever worn a fake smile, or been in a relationship where you depend most on the person you’re growing apart from, you too might find yourself entrenched in Tupper’s book.

Recently, I had a chance to talk to Lara Tupper about her novel, pop culture, travels and her obsession with Barry Manilow…

(Read the full blog with more pics and the interview with Lara Tupper on Noveltown's blog)

Labels: A Thousand and One Nights, Barry Manilow, Lara Tupper, Literature, Noveltown

  posted by Matildakay at 5:37 PM 1 comments

Lost and found in words…
Aspiring writers are always told they must read if they want to be good writers. I’ve read that advice in many articles, heard it at writing conferences, and I can’t tell you how many times N.L. has given me that same advice. “Read, read and read some more.” Its true. The more you read great writers, the more you learn about writing styles, plot and character development, good sentence structure and literary themes. And so now when I read I’m not just devouring the story for escapism or entertainment, I also pay attention to the writing.

Lately I’ve been reverting back to a favorite pastime, losing myself in books. I’m always reading, but I go through phases where I’m devouring words in massive volumes. At one point in my life I was drowning in words, reading up to five and six books a week. I would dive in and escape the real world of divorce in the stories I found within the pages. Eventually life settled down to a normal pace and so did my reading.

Something magical always happens to me when I’m reading. I get lost and found in the words. I can lose myself in the story and escape the mundane routine, the unrequited issues, and the emotional ups and downs. I open my imagination and become part of the story living through the characters. I take a fictional walk and get lost in the writing. But something else happens too. I find myself in the words. I find myself laughing or crying through the words. I find myself saying: “I know exactly what you mean or feel,” “I’ve been there,” “I’ve said that!” and “Oh my God, how did they know.” Screen writer/director Nancy Meyers must have a window into my soul for she seems to write my life almost word for word and I have the uncomfortable pleasure of watching beautiful actresses play out my life on the big screen. The bitch. If she doesn’t quit writing me, there won’t be anything left for me to write. But this magic is the moment when the writing is good and I get lost and found in the words the most. When the words transcend the page and touch my life and I carry them around with me like a secret.

In the large stack of books I’m currently reading, here are a few worth mentioning.

A Thousand and One Nights by Lara Tupper: As an active reader of chick-lit, I was given this book to read for Noveltown. Although after reading it, I hesitate to stereotype it as chick-lit. It doesn’t follow the typical chick-lit formula. What it is, is an original, well written adventure of a lounge singer set in exotic locations. I was touched most by the humor within the sadness of the story as the characters isolated by their foreign locations, must depend most upon the person they are growing apart from. I’ll be writing more about A Thousand and One Nights and interviewing Lara Tupper for the Noveltown blog.

The Marriage Diaries by Rebecca Campbell: I picked this book up expecting it to be a light, fun chick-lit read. It was a fun, witty read that had me laughing at times. But it had depth like most marriages do. The writing is brutally honest and dissects the marriage from two points of view, the wife and the husband’s. What would you do if you stumbled onto your husband’s private journal on the home computer hard drive and found out he was contemplating an affair? Campbell smartly takes the characters in a much different direction than I had expected.

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold: Last year at the Yosemite Writers conference a panel of agents all agreed they were looking for the next “Lovely Bones” and that books like that were rare. The Lovely Bones. I wrote the name down in my notes and promised myself I’d read it. I finally read The Lovely Bones and now I know why the agents were all raving, it’s stunning. A literary masterpiece. I literally could not put the book down. Sebold weaves a riveting tale of the human experience uniquely told from the perspective of the murder victim as she watches her family, friends and her killer. From unspeakable tragedy and suspense Sebold gives hope and humor.

She writes:

“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections – sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent – that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”

The Lovely Bones is my new favorite book and a must read. If you read nothing else this year, read The Lovely Bones.

I have more books to dive into and get lost and found in the words…

Labels: found, Literary, lost, Noveltown, Reading, words, Writing

  posted by Matildakay at 11:45 PM 9 comments

Noveltown launches The Noveltown Review April 12th
Noveltown is celebrating the release of its literary magazine The Noveltown Review on April 12, 2007. You won't want to miss this event or this fabulous literary magazine!

Here are all the details...



MUST R.S.V.P:
melody@noveltown.net

Noveltown to Hold Business/Media Mixer
to Promote New Magazine

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Bakersfield, CA - Noveltown has gathered some of the finest literary talent from across America in a new magazine with multicultural flavor. A business/media mixer premiering The Noveltown Review promises to show off cultural literary arts in Bakersfield, CA, Thursday April 12th 7-10 PM at the downstairs bar in Benjamin's Restaurant, 1419 19th Street. Music will be provided by Bakotopia.com.

"The Noveltown Review is a new vehicle to promote literary arts. It's newsy and it's classy with a unique blog crossover aspect. Anyone published within the review is in great company. It will grow into its multicultural shoes. And it's a free magazine," says Noveltown publicist, Melody Saberon. "We want businesses to support this great cultural effort coming out of Bakersfield. So we're making the magazine available to them first."

The inaugural edition has articles by Cindy Wathen, author of Remembering Cesar. She's affiliated with Writer's Digest and the Yosemite Writers Conference. Riotous author of Futureproof, N. Frank Daniels is also on board as well as sultry author, Robin Slick, and big-time chick lit author, Lauren Baratz-Logsted who just released the historical fiction novel, Vertigo.

Fiction pieces within the Noveltown Review come from L.A. Times Bestselling author Brad Listi of Attention. Deficit. Disorder fame, Susan Henderson, who runs
http://litpark.com out of New York, and Conrad Romo:
Latino author out of L.A. who runs Hollywood's Hotel Café Tongue and Groove poetry readings. Brad Listi also runs the popular blog, www.TheNervousBreakdown.com. Attendees can R.S.V.P. to attend the event by emailing: melody@noveltown.net.

The Noveltown Review will be distributed in Bakersfield, Fresno, Clovis, L.A., Hollywood, Baltimore, Atlanta, Philadelphia, London, and more…

Noveltown (http://noveltown.net) will soon be announcing the author of its next book in print, and is proud to be working towards leading the way in publishing in the Southern Central Valley… Noveltown's N.L. Belardes will be speaking at the upcoming Yosemite Writers Conference (http://yosemitewriters.com).
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Labels: Literary magazine, Noveltown, The Noveltown Review

  posted by Matildakay at 8:02 PM 1 comments

Meeting Jen Bowles and Christopher Taylor at the 18th Street Art Gallery
The Art Studio and 18th Street Art Gallery had its first artist reception and art show under the new direction of Jenn Williams. The artist was Jen Bowles and the art show was “Calculated Spontaneity”.

I represented Noveltown and my first thought upon seeing the 18th Street Art Gallery was: Wow, what a great space!


The Art Studio and 18th Street Art Gallery

Jen Bowles large-scale vibrant paintings are mesmerizing…



There was already quite a crowd of people when I arrived at the gallery. They lingered around Jen Bowles paintings contemplating the intensity of the colors and the textures.





“It’s all about texture and color for me,” Jen Bowles explained. She’s a full time artist in Bakersfield.


Jen Bowles talking about her art

Bowles classified her art as non-representational rather than abstract. I asked her about her chosen medium. “It’s acrylic on board.” She explained, reluctant to reveal the techniques she’d developed in achieving the texture in her paintings.

Greg Goodsell asked what she thought of the Bakersfield art community: “For me, Bakersfield is kind of coming around, and they’re really becoming more interested in art. I feel that there’s a lot of people who enjoy the more non-representational type art.

“I have sold a couple pieces. I’m out here and I’m showing my artwork and I’m excited about it. I hope people will enjoy it and will be interested in it.”

Jen Bowles is as vibrant as her paintings. How can people not love this new Bakersfield art and art studio? Contact Jen Bowles at: jenbowles@bak.rr.com.


Jen Bowles and Jenn Williams

Jenn Williams gave me a tour of the Art Studio, which included a classroom work area for art classes and wall space that artists rent to display and sell their art, which Jenn called ‘Art Boutiques’. (Read the interview she gave Noveltown about her Art Studio and Gallery).


Jenn Williams looks like art herself…

Chris, of Christopher Taylor Portrait Design shares the Art Studio. I asked how long he had been doing photography.

“Full time for about five years,” he said. “I’ve done everything from portraits, weddings, commercial photography and fine art. I’ve even been the annoying resort ‘do you want your picture taken’ guy.”


Christopher Taylor


One of Christopher Taylor’s portraits

I wondered if he had advice for a novice photographer like me who was interested in learning more about the craft: “Always have your camera with you everywhere you go. You never know what photo opportunities you’ll come across.”

Jen Bowles “Calculated Spontaneity” art show will be up in the 18th Street Art Gallery until February 28, 2007. Go check out her art and the Art Studio too!

Art Studio and 18th Street Gallery
835 18th Street
Bakersfield, CA 93301
661-323-5088

Labels: 18th Street Art Gallery, Art, Bakersfield, Christopher Taylor, Jen Bowles, Noveltown, Photography

  posted by Matildakay at 9:33 AM 5 comments