May 16, 2016: The Emerging Voices Author Evening Series: Jillian Lauren, Meredith Maran, Claire Bidwell Smith & Sarah Tomlinson, 7 pm, Chevalier’s Books, 126 N. Larchmont Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. Get tickets here: https://penusa.org/author-evenings

November 3 – 6, 2016: Sanibel Island Writer’s Conference, Sanibel Island, FL. http://www.fgcu.edu/siwc/

PAST EVENTS:

April 27, 2015: GOOD GIRL Book Launch and Reading with a Q&A by Jillian Lauren (Some Girls, Everything You Ever Wanted), 7:30 pm, Skylight Books, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. www.skylightbooks.com

May 10, 2015: MOTHER KNOWS BEST: Group event featuring Katey Sagal (author of a forthcoming book of personal essays), Jillian Lauren (Some Girls, Everything You Ever Wanted), Claire Bidwell Smith (The Rules of Inheritance, After This), Natashia Deon (author of a forthcoming novel, Sweet Tea and Honey), 12:30 pm, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. www.booksoup.com

May 26, 2015: GOOD GIRL Book Launch and Reading with Melissa Cistaro (Pieces of My Mother), 7 pm, WORD Brooklyn, 126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY. www.wordbookstores.com

May 28, 2015: GOOD GIRL Book Launch and Reading with a Q&A by Liz Prato (Baby’s on Fire), 7 pm, Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Boulevard, Portland, OR. www.powells.com

June 2, 2015: GOOD GIRL Book Launch and Reading, 7 pm, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera, CA. www.bookpassage.com

June 6, 2015: “Our Families, Ourselves: The (True & Imagined) Stories We Tell,” panel with Ann Packer, Kevin Sessums, and moderator Arlie Hochschild 3:30 pm, Bay Area Book Festival, Berkley, CA. www.baybookfest.org

June 21, 2015: Sunday Salon, 7 pm, Jimmy’s No. 43, 43 E. 7th Street, New York City, NY. www.sundaysalon.com

May 1, 2016: The MUSE & the Marketplace, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA. http://museandthemarketplace.com