Halloween Hollywood Crawl with Amber & Karen

by | Oct 26, 2010 | dracula in love, other adventures

Please join me with Amber Benson and friends from the cast of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” for a performance of the short play “Asylum” from DRACULA IN LOVE, and then party with us from venue to venue through Halloween evening. The music, food, and entertainment gets better as the night goes on. If you haven’t sampled the delicacies and wine at Allston Yacht Club yet, you haven’t lived!

LA Lit Weekend; New Orleans, SF

by | Oct 24, 2010 | dracula in love, other adventures

Please join me this weekend, Oct. 22-24 at the BEVERLY HILLS LITERARY ESCAPE, a chance to dialogue salon-style in café conversations, lunches, teas, and dinners with myself, Mona Simpson, Abraham Verghese, Joseph O’Neill and many more. I have a few passes ($100 value) to giveaway! If you’d like one, please post your desire on the blog. Not sure how many I have but first come, first serve. I’m doing a Sunday morning chat with other authors at the Saban Theater and a Sunday lunch with Robert Goolrick (A Reliable Wife).

http://bhliteraryescape.com/join-us-weekend-incredible-book-club-experiences
NEW ORLEANS FRIENDS! See below for book events leading up to Halloween.

OCTOBER 31. AMBER BENSON & FRIENDS FROM BUFFY WILL PERFORM “ASYLUM” FROM DRACULA IN LOVE AT A LOCATION TBA WITH A PARTY AFTERWARDS. STAY TUNED!

SAN FRANCISCO, NOVEMBER 3:
Karen Essex’s Dracula In Love
7:30p
Books Inc.
1344 Park St.
Alameda, CA 94501
In-store performance of scenes inspired by Karen Essex’s Dracula In Love, entitled Asylum Scene. Participating in this event are student actors from Encinal High as directed and supported by Teacher Gene Kahane.

NEW ORLEANS:
Wednesday, October 27th, 4-7pm
Boutique du Vampyre
Location: 633 Toulouse Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Program: Reading and Signing
Contact: Marita Jaeger, maritavampire@yahoo.com, 504.561.8627

Thursday, October 28th, 6:30pm
Octavia Books
Location: 513 Octavia Street, New Orleans, LA 70115-2055
Program: Reading, Q&A, Asylum Performance, Signing
Contact: Tom Lowenburg, tom@octaviabooks.com, 504.899.7323
Friday, October 29th, 7:00pm
Vampire Film Festival
Location: Shadowbox Theater, 2400 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117
Program: Reading from Dracula in Love, followed by an introduction to film screening (The Thirst for Blood — A Collection of Vampire Shorts)
Contact: Asif Ahmed, asif@reelenergy.com, 626.616.6771

Saturday, October 30th, 3:00pm
Vampire Film Festival
Location: Shadowbox Theater, 2400 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117
Program: Panel (Why Do Women Write Bloody-Good Vampire Fiction? Rice, Meyer, Harris and Beyond with Sue Dent, Karen Essex and Gabrielle Faust) , Q&A, Signing, followed by Reception with the authors
Contact: Asif Ahmed, asif@reelenergy.com, 626.616.6771

Thanks to all for your support. It’s been so much fun to catch up with so many of you around the country.

Above, just some of the readers from Kathy Louise Patrick’s Pulpwood Queens & Timberwood Guys Book Club (the largest book club in the world, people!) who turned out in costume for our Victorian banquet in Jefferson TX. That’s Kathy’s daughter dead center, who read the Mina role when we performed ASYLUM, and she was phenomenal! Kathy, the Queen herself, is in the hat next to her daughter in the splendid steampunk hat.

Hope to see you on the road!
As ever—
Karen

“Mishap in Memphis” OR “Joys and Sorrows along the Book Tour Trail.”

by | Jun 9, 2009 | books, other adventures

I want to apologize profusely to anyone who came to Davis Kidd Bookstore in Memphis last month to see me. I’d spent the day doing local media to promote the event, and apparently, a nice group had arrived at 6pm. Too bad that I had been asked to arrive at 7pm! I was six minutes away in a hotel, yet no one called me. I could have been dead! Anyway, stuff happens, but a big mea culpa.

Still, Memphis is a great town! I walked along the Mississippi River and toured ever-gentrifying downtown with my good friend Andrea Woods who treated me to one of my favorite Southern delicacies, Shrimp and Grits. I stayed at the historic Peabody Hotel, where every day at 5pm, a red carpet unrolls, and the resident ducks promenade from the lobby fountain, where they live by day, to the Duck Penthouse, where they reside at night. It’s really something to see! ... Read more.