Sure, you might not have made the cut for "5 Under 35," but that certainly doesn't mean you need to give up on your dreams of writing and publishing a book! In the first installment of an ongoing "How They Did It" series, Litquake and LitCamp have brought together six authors who found their way to publishing success after the age of 40.
Alka Joshi, Anita Amirrezvani, Barbara Graham, Jacqueline E. Luckett, Jane Ganahl, and Mark Ernest Pothier will share practical advice and inspiration in this sure-to-be-lively discussion moderated by LitCamp's own Janis Cooke Newman, who also published her first book at 40+. Could this be your year? You'd better believe it! Find out how these pros did it, and get inspired!
We'll gather at the brand-new Page Street Co-Working space in Berkeley, where in addition to the conversation, we'll enjoy time for casual conversation. We'll be pouring Prosecco, wine, and fancy nonalcoholic drinks. Proceeds from ticket sales will support both LitCamp and Litquake.
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About the Speakers
Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon pick. It has been translated into 29 languages and is currently in development at Netflix as a tv series. Joshi was born in India and came to the United States with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts.
Anita Amirrezvani is the author of the novels Equal of the Sun and The Blood of Flowers, which has been published in more than twenty-five languages and was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She teaches at the California College of the Arts and Sonoma State University.
Barbara Graham is an essayist, playwright, and author who has written for Time; O, The Oprah Magazine; Glamour; More; National Geographic Traveler; and Vogue. Her books include the memoir Camp Paradox and her most recent work, the debut novel What Jonah Knew.
Jacqueline E. Luckett is the author of two novels. Passing Love was a featured Book Pick in Good Housekeeping magazine. Essence magazine chose her first novel, Searching for Tina Turner, as the January 2010 book-of-the-month selection. The anthology The Best Women's Travel 2011 includes her essay, "Traveling with Ghosts." Luckett's article "Discovering Creativity in the Wake of Divorce" appeared in the Huffington Post. Her short essay (and tasty dry martini recipe) appear in the anthology A Literary Cocktail Party.
Jane Ganahl has been a journalist, author, event producer, teacher, animal activist and more in the Bay Area for decades. In 1999 she co-founded, with Jack Boulware, the legendary Litquake literary festival, now the largest of its kind on the West Coast. When she was at the San Francisco Chronicle she penned the "Single Minded" Sunday column about the unmarried life. It served as the backdrop for her memoir, Naked on the Page: the Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife. She is also the editor of the acclaimed 2005 anthology Single Woman of a Certain Age: 28 Women Writers on the Unmarried Midlife.
Mark Ernest Pothier's debut novel, Outer Sunset , called "insightful and bittersweet -- a terrific novel" by the San Francisco Chronicle and "beautiful and touching" by Foreword, was listed by Alta Journal in May 2023 as a "book to watch." His work has won a Nelson Algren Short Story Award, been long-listed for the Pirates Alley/Faulkner -- William Wisdom prize, and been published in the Chicago Tribune, LitHub, Santa Clara Review, Connotation Press, Kindle Singles, and elsewhere. He worked nearly 30 years in nonprofit communications, including a wonderful spell with the California Council for the Humanities.
Janis Cooke Newman (moderator) is the author of two novels, A Master Plan for Rescue, which was an SF Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and Mary, which was an LA Time Book Prize finalist as well as USA Today's Historical Novel of the Year. She is also the author of a memoir, The Russian Word for Snow, which has been translated into several languages.
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Alka Joshi, Anita Amirrezvani, Barbara Graham, Jacqueline E. Luckett, Jane Ganahl, and Mark Ernest Pothier will share practical advice and inspiration in this sure-to-be-lively discussion moderated by LitCamp's own Janis Cooke Newman, who also published her first book at 40+. Could this be your year? You'd better believe it! Find out how these pros did it, and get inspired!
We'll gather at the brand-new Page Street Co-Working space in Berkeley, where in addition to the conversation, we'll enjoy time for casual conversation. We'll be pouring Prosecco, wine, and fancy nonalcoholic drinks. Proceeds from ticket sales will support both LitCamp and Litquake.
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About the Speakers
Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon pick. It has been translated into 29 languages and is currently in development at Netflix as a tv series. Joshi was born in India and came to the United States with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts.
Anita Amirrezvani is the author of the novels Equal of the Sun and The Blood of Flowers, which has been published in more than twenty-five languages and was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She teaches at the California College of the Arts and Sonoma State University.
Barbara Graham is an essayist, playwright, and author who has written for Time; O, The Oprah Magazine; Glamour; More; National Geographic Traveler; and Vogue. Her books include the memoir Camp Paradox and her most recent work, the debut novel What Jonah Knew.
Jacqueline E. Luckett is the author of two novels. Passing Love was a featured Book Pick in Good Housekeeping magazine. Essence magazine chose her first novel, Searching for Tina Turner, as the January 2010 book-of-the-month selection. The anthology The Best Women's Travel 2011 includes her essay, "Traveling with Ghosts." Luckett's article "Discovering Creativity in the Wake of Divorce" appeared in the Huffington Post. Her short essay (and tasty dry martini recipe) appear in the anthology A Literary Cocktail Party.
Jane Ganahl has been a journalist, author, event producer, teacher, animal activist and more in the Bay Area for decades. In 1999 she co-founded, with Jack Boulware, the legendary Litquake literary festival, now the largest of its kind on the West Coast. When she was at the San Francisco Chronicle she penned the "Single Minded" Sunday column about the unmarried life. It served as the backdrop for her memoir, Naked on the Page: the Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife. She is also the editor of the acclaimed 2005 anthology Single Woman of a Certain Age: 28 Women Writers on the Unmarried Midlife.
Mark Ernest Pothier's debut novel, Outer Sunset , called "insightful and bittersweet -- a terrific novel" by the San Francisco Chronicle and "beautiful and touching" by Foreword, was listed by Alta Journal in May 2023 as a "book to watch." His work has won a Nelson Algren Short Story Award, been long-listed for the Pirates Alley/Faulkner -- William Wisdom prize, and been published in the Chicago Tribune, LitHub, Santa Clara Review, Connotation Press, Kindle Singles, and elsewhere. He worked nearly 30 years in nonprofit communications, including a wonderful spell with the California Council for the Humanities.
Janis Cooke Newman (moderator) is the author of two novels, A Master Plan for Rescue, which was an SF Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and Mary, which was an LA Time Book Prize finalist as well as USA Today's Historical Novel of the Year. She is also the author of a memoir, The Russian Word for Snow, which has been translated into several languages.
Sure, you might not have made the cut for "5 Under 35," but that certainly doesn't mean you need to give up on your dreams of writing and publishing a book! In the first installment of an ongoing "How They Did It" series, Litquake and LitCamp have brought together six authors who found their way to publishing success after the age of 40.
Alka Joshi, Anita Amirrezvani, Barbara Graham, Jacqueline E. Luckett, Jane Ganahl, and Mark Ernest Pothier will share practical advice and inspiration in this sure-to-be-lively discussion moderated by LitCamp's own Janis Cooke Newman, who also published her first book at 40+. Could this be your year? You'd better believe it! Find out how these pros did it, and get inspired!
We'll gather at the brand-new Page Street Co-Working space in Berkeley, where in addition to the conversation, we'll enjoy time for casual conversation. We'll be pouring Prosecco, wine, and fancy nonalcoholic drinks. Proceeds from ticket sales will support both LitCamp and Litquake.
~~~~~~~~~
About the Speakers
Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon pick. It has been translated into 29 languages and is currently in development at Netflix as a tv series. Joshi was born in India and came to the United States with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts.
Anita Amirrezvani is the author of the novels Equal of the Sun and The Blood of Flowers, which has been published in more than twenty-five languages and was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She teaches at the California College of the Arts and Sonoma State University.
Barbara Graham is an essayist, playwright, and author who has written for Time; O, The Oprah Magazine; Glamour; More; National Geographic Traveler; and Vogue. Her books include the memoir Camp Paradox and her most recent work, the debut novel What Jonah Knew.
Jacqueline E. Luckett is the author of two novels. Passing Love was a featured Book Pick in Good Housekeeping magazine. Essence magazine chose her first novel, Searching for Tina Turner, as the January 2010 book-of-the-month selection. The anthology The Best Women's Travel 2011 includes her essay, "Traveling with Ghosts." Luckett's article "Discovering Creativity in the Wake of Divorce" appeared in the Huffington Post. Her short essay (and tasty dry martini recipe) appear in the anthology A Literary Cocktail Party.
Jane Ganahl has been a journalist, author, event producer, teacher, animal activist and more in the Bay Area for decades. In 1999 she co-founded, with Jack Boulware, the legendary Litquake literary festival, now the largest of its kind on the West Coast. When she was at the San Francisco Chronicle she penned the "Single Minded" Sunday column about the unmarried life. It served as the backdrop for her memoir, Naked on the Page: the Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife. She is also the editor of the acclaimed 2005 anthology Single Woman of a Certain Age: 28 Women Writers on the Unmarried Midlife.
Mark Ernest Pothier's debut novel, Outer Sunset , called "insightful and bittersweet -- a terrific novel" by the San Francisco Chronicle and "beautiful and touching" by Foreword, was listed by Alta Journal in May 2023 as a "book to watch." His work has won a Nelson Algren Short Story Award, been long-listed for the Pirates Alley/Faulkner -- William Wisdom prize, and been published in the Chicago Tribune, LitHub, Santa Clara Review, Connotation Press, Kindle Singles, and elsewhere. He worked nearly 30 years in nonprofit communications, including a wonderful spell with the California Council for the Humanities.
Janis Cooke Newman (moderator) is the author of two novels, A Master Plan for Rescue, which was an SF Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and Mary, which was an LA Time Book Prize finalist as well as USA Today's Historical Novel of the Year. She is also the author of a memoir, The Russian Word for Snow, which has been translated into several languages.
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Alka Joshi, Anita Amirrezvani, Barbara Graham, Jacqueline E. Luckett, Jane Ganahl, and Mark Ernest Pothier will share practical advice and inspiration in this sure-to-be-lively discussion moderated by LitCamp's own Janis Cooke Newman, who also published her first book at 40+. Could this be your year? You'd better believe it! Find out how these pros did it, and get inspired!
We'll gather at the brand-new Page Street Co-Working space in Berkeley, where in addition to the conversation, we'll enjoy time for casual conversation. We'll be pouring Prosecco, wine, and fancy nonalcoholic drinks. Proceeds from ticket sales will support both LitCamp and Litquake.
~~~~~~~~~
About the Speakers
Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon pick. It has been translated into 29 languages and is currently in development at Netflix as a tv series. Joshi was born in India and came to the United States with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts.
Anita Amirrezvani is the author of the novels Equal of the Sun and The Blood of Flowers, which has been published in more than twenty-five languages and was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She teaches at the California College of the Arts and Sonoma State University.
Barbara Graham is an essayist, playwright, and author who has written for Time; O, The Oprah Magazine; Glamour; More; National Geographic Traveler; and Vogue. Her books include the memoir Camp Paradox and her most recent work, the debut novel What Jonah Knew.
Jacqueline E. Luckett is the author of two novels. Passing Love was a featured Book Pick in Good Housekeeping magazine. Essence magazine chose her first novel, Searching for Tina Turner, as the January 2010 book-of-the-month selection. The anthology The Best Women's Travel 2011 includes her essay, "Traveling with Ghosts." Luckett's article "Discovering Creativity in the Wake of Divorce" appeared in the Huffington Post. Her short essay (and tasty dry martini recipe) appear in the anthology A Literary Cocktail Party.
Jane Ganahl has been a journalist, author, event producer, teacher, animal activist and more in the Bay Area for decades. In 1999 she co-founded, with Jack Boulware, the legendary Litquake literary festival, now the largest of its kind on the West Coast. When she was at the San Francisco Chronicle she penned the "Single Minded" Sunday column about the unmarried life. It served as the backdrop for her memoir, Naked on the Page: the Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife. She is also the editor of the acclaimed 2005 anthology Single Woman of a Certain Age: 28 Women Writers on the Unmarried Midlife.
Mark Ernest Pothier's debut novel, Outer Sunset , called "insightful and bittersweet -- a terrific novel" by the San Francisco Chronicle and "beautiful and touching" by Foreword, was listed by Alta Journal in May 2023 as a "book to watch." His work has won a Nelson Algren Short Story Award, been long-listed for the Pirates Alley/Faulkner -- William Wisdom prize, and been published in the Chicago Tribune, LitHub, Santa Clara Review, Connotation Press, Kindle Singles, and elsewhere. He worked nearly 30 years in nonprofit communications, including a wonderful spell with the California Council for the Humanities.
Janis Cooke Newman (moderator) is the author of two novels, A Master Plan for Rescue, which was an SF Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and Mary, which was an LA Time Book Prize finalist as well as USA Today's Historical Novel of the Year. She is also the author of a memoir, The Russian Word for Snow, which has been translated into several languages.
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