Long overdue thanks to my pal/colleague Natalie Bovis-Nelson for plugging my SIP Guide on her site, theliquidmuse.com , this fall.

Nat has a new book of her own out right now–The Bubbly Bride, released in November.  It’s a cocktail book, and according to a recent LA Times review, the cocktails alone are motivation enough to inspire a marriage. This reviewer must be even more of a lush than I am.

Congratulations Natalie. Everyone else, buy that bubble-icious book right this minute!

What u doing this Sunday, eh? If you’re in Los Angeles or anywhere within a hundred mile radius, you better be coming to see me at the West Hollywood Book Fair. I am exhibiting between 12PM (that’s noon) and 3PM, at the West Hollywood Writes tent. Or, alternatively, I might be at the Barnes & Noble tent. Don’t worry; they’re nearby each other. Come buy SIP, SUN & SNOW… or buy all three.

ALSO make sure and come by  my workshop 3:30-5PM, “A Sense of Place.” It is FREE and in it, I will tell you exactly how to get out of your office job and have the coolest/funnest/travelingest job in the world. Yes, I’ll even tell you how to get to the point where you can make up your own words.  (It takes years and lots of skillz, but it can be done.)

Here’s the link to the Fair. (In case  you’re wondering, the worshop is in the Writing Room.)

Also,  Orbitz blogged about it because they are RAD.

And, That Morning Show also plugged it because they are seeming to be pretty rad too!

I hope to see you there!

I was an on-camera travel expert on That Morning Show on E! Channel this past Thursday October 1st. Do I have a clip? NOT YET! But am working on it. In the meantime here is the link to the show site mentioning me.

I talked about wine country travel. In particular, Napa, Paso Robles and the wonderful Eastern Canadian province of Quebec. I didn’t get to talk about nearly as much as I wanted to, so I also gave ‘em a whole supplemental blog with hotel picks and wineries and whatnot. Hopefully they will post.

I will have a clip soon. Don’t u worry…

LA INC wanted to excerpt my interview with Olympic champ Kerri Walsh from the SUN Guide to use on their DiscoverLA.com site in conjunction with the AVP Crocks Hermosa event. I said…cool deal!  Here’s  “Kerri Walsh’s LA” along with my own about-town Hermosa Beach picks. Look for interviews with the AVP gold medal boys when the tour comes back around to Manhattan Beach…

Thanks be to Charyn Pfeuffer, fellow traveler, bon savante and opinionated editorialist. She shouted out SUN and me on HotelChatter this week, and gave some of my picks for off-the-beaten path California hotels…the ones I can’t write about on Orbitz because they are too out-of-the-way or not in season yet.  All Nor Cal. Check it out.

I wrote an essay on the dramz of writing SIP, SUN, and SNOW for beatrice.com, the blog owned by Ron Hogan (editor of MediaBistro by day, literary blogger by nite).  Here it be.

This is a great blog for all bookworms, intellectual snobs, and people too ADD to watch television. I have therefore added it to my blog roll, so we can keep up w/Ron’s author friends without having to constantly ponder, “Okay, I know that blog is named after a woman, but what is it again?? Hm…”