August 26–Stories on Stage Sacramento
Words come to life on stage this month. It's a thrill to see your work interpreted by a gifted actor, [...]
Stories on Stage with Catriona McPherson
Thank you to Inside Sacramento for spreading the word about Tomboy being performed by Gabby Battista at Stories on Stage Sacramento, [...]
April Doty, Tomboy’s Narrator–June 28
April Doty is the voice of Jane Benjamin. I was so lucky to meet her when she narrated the audiobook [...]
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 [...]
Tomboy’s docked
Tomboy has docked. My personal order of real and truly-finished books has arrived early, like an inciting incident. A box landed on my porch, delivering [...]
Tomboy–Chapter One
As a sneak preview of Tomboy, publishing June 28, 2022, enjoy the first chapter here. CHAPTER ONE Monday, June 26, [...]
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 [...]
Cantankerous and fussy
I wrote Copy Boy, my first of the Jane Benjamin novels, in ten years, dipping in and out of the [...]