SISTER SPIT STARTS WEDNESDAY:

SISTER SPIT TOUR STARTS TOMORROW!!!

Some Press here.

Full schedule here.

Coming up immediately:

Wednesday, March 16
7pm, Free
Mills College, Lisser Theater
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland CA
With special guest Tara Jepsen + Kirya Traber!

Thursday, March 17
7pm, $5-$10
Movimiento de Arte 6 Cultura Latino Americana
510 South 1st St.
San Jose, CA

Friday, March 18
8pm, $10
Rock Paper Scissors Collective
2278 Telegraph
Oakland, CA

Saturday, March 19
Doors 6pm, $5
The Echo
1822 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
With special guests HBO producer/writer Jill Soloway (TINY LADIES IN SHINY PANTS) + performance artist/filmmaker Zackary Drucker + writer/performance artist Raquel Gutierrez (Butchlalis de Panochtitlan) + Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Amber Benson (DEATH'S DAUGHTER, CAT'S CLAW)!
Post-show party at Stories down the street!

HORN BOOK REVIEW

The illustrious Horn Review gave RECOVERY ROAD a STARRED REVIEW in it's new issue. For you non-kids book people that's really good.

And fun too, as when I was in fourth grade, some teachers got together and got me hooked up with HORN REVIEW as a kid reviewer because I liked to read. So they sent me a book called ... I think ... JULIA OF THE WOLVES which I tried to read and instantly got distracted from because there was a dirt-clod fight raging across the street that I had to be part of, or something else ...

But here is the Horn Review popping up again in my life ....




[STAR] Recovery Road
by Blake Nelson
High School Scholastic 310 pp.
3/11 978-0-545-10729-7 $17.99
Narrator Maddie, full of anger and loathing, is sixteen and in rehab when she meets Stewart, a cute boy with whom she feels an immediate connection. Maddie and Stewart try to connect after rehab, but circumstances keep them apart. Nevertheless, they maintain a close friendship and provide each other support in the difficult process of recovering from addiction ...jonathan hunt


There is more but as a kindly reader has pointed out, it gives the rest of the book away! So check it out!

The Millions

A nice piece at literary website THE MILLIONS by Jessanne Collins, a GIRL fan and journalist who is worried that DREAMSCHOOL might suck but then is happy when it doesn't!!

READING AT BOOK SOUP

Reading at my favorite LA bookstore, BOOK SOUP Friday the fourth of March. Yay!

Head Injury = Children's Lit

I know I'm supposed to be offended by Martin Amis's assertion that he would need to have a head injury to write children's books, but somehow I'm not.

MARTIN AMES ON CHILDRENS LITERATURE

Plus I'm always glad when someone actually says something they really think and not just panders and makes nice.

MATERIAL CONCERN

Check out this awesome interview which I did with Lizz Wasserman at Material Concern.

Topics discussed: Does "I wrote GIRL" work as a pick up line? What is the most common comments I get about it? Are teenagers cooler now than in the nineties? Are they smarter? Do they have more sex?

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Recovery Road

by Blake Nelson

Giveaway ends February 14, 2011.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter to win