Reading and signing at Capital Books
Thursday, June 30, 2022, 4:30-6:00 Pacific. Reading and Book Signing at Capital Books–In Person. Chat, thanks, free wine and snacks. Giveaway [...]
Join me for launch?
Tomboy launches in the last week of June. I hope you'll join in some of the festivities. (Copy Boy launched [...]
Book release party at Bogle Winery
Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 6:30-8:30 Pacific. You're invited to help me celebrate TOMBOY’s publication day at Bogle Winery with wine and heavy [...]
Start Jane Benjamin’s adventure with Copy Boy–free upload
I loved Mona's cranky, disgruntled humor in Elizabeth Gonzalez James's debut novel, MONA AT SEA. That's why I was so [...]
Grateful for early readers
Book-making is such a long process, full of landmarks. Today, seeing Tomboy's final cover, I'm very grateful to the authors [...]
Mustn’t let adults know
I used to run The Banned Book Club for teenagers. We only read books that had been banned by libraries [...]
Cantankerous and fussy
I wrote Copy Boy, my first of the Jane Benjamin novels, in ten years, dipping in and out of the [...]
Interviews are dangerous
It's like I'm a sophomore. It's fascinating to me how a person can turn sixty and still feel, well, sophomoric. To [...]
Launching the Mystery Review Crew
In just three days, January 10, the Mystery Review Crew website will launch, sharing news, reviews, interviews, videos and more [...]
The passing of Joan Didion
Sacramento-born author, Joan Didion, who passed away over the holidays, had an outsized effect on me, especially this idea from [...]