A SPLENDID event last night, and a guest blog

First off, I got to guest-blog at Meg Waite Clayton's site. Meg has one of the summer's big hits, The Wednesday Sisters. Go forth, read the blog and all the nice guest-bloggers, including me, and read the book, as well - I'm loving it. Brings back the late sixties for me, prismatically, too.

http://megwaiteclayton.com/1stbooks/?p=34

And last night at Booksmith on Haight was wonderful. We had a very good turnout, from writers to rockers to friends to readers. Thomas showed why Booksmith keeps winning "Best Live Book Events in San Francisco" awards. I made and brought food, and prosecco and wine. Me angelic Amacker came and ran her Sony digicam, and Nic had his set up as well, so the seeds for the next Rocker Chick Media video are all there, waiting for the time to edit them. Simon Wood read a splendid JP, Nic reprised his southern transplant NYPD Homicide Lieutenant Patrick Ormand, and I offered up Bree's shaky two lines (the character was shaky, not me). We had a lively Q&A, sold many books, and then Nic and I - along with the wonderful Patrick Campbell, who'd come down from Marin with his standup bass - set up for some live music. The only glitch was forgetting to bring speakers, so that the crowd could actually hear the R&RNF movie trailer when we showed it; my only regret is that we didn't get more of Kathi Kamen Goldmark singing, due to time constraints. She's a wonderful singer.

And speaking of Kathi, she introduced me to the crowd and nearly brought tears to my eyes. A wonderful heartfelt intro, from another rocker chick who was there, and who gets it. My sistah!