\nNEW ORLEANS FRIENDS! See below for book events leading up to Halloween.<\/p>\n
OCTOBER 31. AMBER BENSON & FRIENDS FROM BUFFY WILL PERFORM \u201cASYLUM\u201d FROM DRACULA IN LOVE AT A LOCATION TBA WITH A PARTY AFTERWARDS. STAY TUNED!<\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO, NOVEMBER 3:<\/strong> NEW ORLEANS:<\/strong> Thursday, October 28th, 6:30pm Saturday, October 30th, 3:00pm Thanks to all for your support. It\u2019s been so much fun to catch up with so many of you around the country.<\/p>\n Above, just some of the readers from Kathy Louise Patrick\u2019s 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\u2019s Kathy\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Hope to see you on the road! Please join me this weekend, Oct. 22-24 at the BEVERLY HILLS LITERARY ESCAPE, a chance to dialogue salon-style in caf\u00e9 conversations, lunches, teas, and dinners with myself, Mona Simpson, Abraham Verghese, Joseph O\u2019Neill and many more. I have a few passes ($100 value) to giveaway! If you\u2019d like one, please post your desire on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dracula-in-love","category-other-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKaren Essex’s Dracula In Love
\n7:30p
\nBooks Inc.
\n1344 Park St.
\nAlameda, CA 94501
\nIn-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.<\/p>\n
\nWednesday, October 27th, 4-7pm
\nBoutique du Vampyre
\nLocation: 633 Toulouse Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
\nProgram: Reading and Signing
\nContact: Marita Jaeger, maritavampire@yahoo.com, 504.561.8627<\/p>\n
\nOctavia Books
\nLocation: 513 Octavia Street, New Orleans, LA 70115-2055
\nProgram: Reading, Q&A, Asylum Performance, Signing
\nContact: Tom Lowenburg, tom@octaviabooks.com, 504.899.7323
\nFriday, October 29th, 7:00pm
\nVampire Film Festival
\nLocation: Shadowbox Theater, 2400 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117
\nProgram: Reading from Dracula in Love, followed by an introduction to film screening (The Thirst for Blood — A Collection of Vampire Shorts)
\nContact: Asif Ahmed, asif@reelenergy.com, 626.616.6771<\/p>\n
\nVampire Film Festival
\nLocation: Shadowbox Theater, 2400 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117
\nProgram: 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
\nContact: Asif Ahmed, asif@reelenergy.com, 626.616.6771<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.karenessex.com\/images\/1020blast.jpg\")
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\nAs ever\u2014
\nKaren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"