tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90762013889898473552024-03-19T03:38:29.004-07:00Sundagger-talkMargaret Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840290670683536988noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076201388989847355.post-89749254042857721732009-07-07T11:08:00.000-07:002009-07-07T11:38:11.542-07:00Press Release--Evening with the Author<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPzYQKQMdzE9JqJSj-cC7OcChpcqvv9xk1h2yz9ZOBw7o_L_XGuL2HyER2GrlZp6hk7WEDEXF0ic6WkQhL9far2FGD1SO7pZ-H1ALO-QQTrkNuTTYaaLu8EM7-vEcOUhC2fsPLQjnY4znP/s1600-h/sundagger+front+cover1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 145px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPzYQKQMdzE9JqJSj-cC7OcChpcqvv9xk1h2yz9ZOBw7o_L_XGuL2HyER2GrlZp6hk7WEDEXF0ic6WkQhL9far2FGD1SO7pZ-H1ALO-QQTrkNuTTYaaLu8EM7-vEcOUhC2fsPLQjnY4znP/s320/sundagger+front+cover1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355782707668831602" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><br /><br />Contact: David Zwicker, 415-309-5036, davidrzwicker@yahoo.com<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Sometimes it takes more than one lifetime.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pinole, California</span> –Local author Margaret Murray will read from her new book, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sundagger.net</span>, on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, at the Pinole Public Library, 2935 Pinole Valley Road, from 6:30—7:30PM. There will be Indian drumming and a slideshow of the ruins of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Snacks will be served and the admission is free.<br /><br />“In her Sundagger.net, Margaret Murray gives us a mystery novel in a new dimension moving us from Post 9/11 Silicon Valley to the Ancient Anasazi of the Southwest,” wrote famed mystery writer, Tony Hillerman.<br /><br />A story of one family, two worlds and many lifetimes, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sundagger.net</span> is independently published by WriteWords Press, which Murray started two years ago. “For me, the journey to the magical world of books began in a library and now I have the chance to read my own work there,” Murray states. The sun dagger refers to an actual occurrence where a ray of light appears during solstices and equinoxes at the top of a butte in Chaco Canyon, piercing a spiral carved in stones centuries ago. “Clearly it had spiritual and religious meaning for the Native Americans,” explains Murray. “It also refers to the technology that powers the internet and drives the telecom industry of Silicon Valley—which leads to a theme of my book—Sometimes It Takes More Than One Lifetime.”<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAmYfRz11KpJLYUyBaBHYy0r2hZNRKmsfdvugPOcI3eANi8dtHQ0Zuzphu_Aj2ti7a3UACBcc_txh7cN2n_F-TZB1_-a58KF3Xs7AeMPaECDrtpKhwfsrvzB1DxKDgs54mNHnDL0aWYlK2/s1600-h/biophoto.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 129px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAmYfRz11KpJLYUyBaBHYy0r2hZNRKmsfdvugPOcI3eANi8dtHQ0Zuzphu_Aj2ti7a3UACBcc_txh7cN2n_F-TZB1_-a58KF3Xs7AeMPaECDrtpKhwfsrvzB1DxKDgs54mNHnDL0aWYlK2/s320/biophoto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355783841409556130" border="0" /></a>Margaret Murray was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University and Hunter College. She attended the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center on an American Federation of the Arts fellowship and the Squaw Valley Screenwriters Conference on a National Endowment for the Arts grant. A technical writer and teacher, she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years and in Pinole for the last eight.<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:78%;" >photo by shelley buck<br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />For more information: Phone the library: (510) 759-2741.<br />On the web: <a href="http://www.sundagger.net/">www.sundagger.net</a><br /><br /></span>Margaret Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840290670683536988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076201388989847355.post-5156892087774411942009-07-02T14:43:00.000-07:002009-07-07T11:40:44.260-07:00Another FREE Event--Pinole Public Library, 7/22/09<span style="font-weight: bold;">Where? Pinole Public Library, 2935 Pinole Valley Rd.<br />When? Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009, 6:30 - 7:30PM</span><br /><br />Who knows where Pinole is?<br />From Berkeley, CA, take Highway 80 E, ten miles north.<br /><br />I'll be at the Pinole Library reading from my novel, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sundagger.net</span>, a story of magical realism about the ancient Anasazi and post-9/11 Silicon Valley. <span style="font-style: italic;">One family, two worlds, many lifetimes.</span> There will be Indian drumming, a slide show of Chaco Canyon ruins in New Mexico where my old story takes place, and snacks! You'll have the opportunity to ask questions and buy my book.<br /><br />Directions from Berkeley: Take I-80 E. (10.1 miles)<br /> Take the Pinole Valley Rd exit<br /> Turn right at Pinole Valley Rd (.3 miles)<br /> The library is on your right:<br /> 2935 Pinole Valley Rd<br /> Pinole, CA 94564Margaret Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840290670683536988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076201388989847355.post-55819346090980795802009-06-11T09:54:00.000-07:002009-06-11T11:02:39.770-07:00Event-- California State Fair--Weird, Wild and WackyWhere? Author's Booth, California State Fair, Sacramento <br />When? August 21st & Sepember 3rd<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Big Fun!Weird, Wild and Wacky</span> is the theme of the 2009 California State Fair in Sacramento. You can meet me and 38 other California authors in the author's booth.<br /> <br />Ask me about what's weird, wild and wacky in my new book, <span style="font-weight:bold;">Sundagger.net</span>, a magical novel of the ancient Anasazi and post-9/11 Silicon Valley. I'll tell you what I know and don't know (is that even possible?)about self-publishing,fiction writing and my research into the ancient Anasazi heritage of the Southwest. You'll have the opportunity to buy my book.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Friday, August, 21st, 4 - 10PM <br />Thursday, September 3rd, 12 - 5PM</span><br /></span><br />The Author's Booth is located in the public area of the A/B Building at Cal Expo, formerly called the “Counties Building” now often called the California Building. We are in the A Building on the ground floor across from the Cinnamon Buns, very near the annual Channel 10 broadcasting booth, and near the north and west entrances of the building. California Authors will be lettered on the wall. <br /><br />Directions: See http://bigfun.org/GeneralInfo/MapsDirections.asp<br /><br />The fair itself is weird, wild and wacky and runs from August 21st through September 7th. See you there. Big Fun, I promise you.Margaret Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840290670683536988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076201388989847355.post-58136910178600895112009-06-11T09:10:00.000-07:002009-06-11T09:52:24.487-07:00Going on a Vision QuestTo my mind, a vision quest is a Native American term to describe a journey you take alone where you sit and pray in a quiet, secluded place in nature in a proscribed ceremony. You do this in search of a vision for yourself and your life.<br /><br />I am taking this journey one week from today.<br /><br />This is my first vision quest and my third attempt. Even though a vision quest is the climax of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sundagger.net</span>, I have never been on one. Last year I got a teaching job and couldn't take time off.The second attempt was to have been in April but I got sick with a really bad chest cold.<br /><br />I'm going north 3-1/2 hours to private land, a beautiful California countryside. Only four of us will be on the quest this time. We'll have a feast the night before, and then a short sweat next Thursday around 6:30am, and then a supporter will carry our things up Buck Rock mountain to a site we will have already chosen the previous afternoon where we want to have our altar.<br />The altar will be made when we get there. I will sit or lie inside the altar for the entire time. It will be a rectangle with four corners shown by four flags for the four directions and the "fence" will be prayer ties in red, yellow, black and white which I'm making now--I need to make 49 of each color. <br /><br />I hope it doesn't get too cold or hot.<br /><br />The terrain is diverse so I can choose to be in a grove of trees next to a forest or I can be out on the top of the mountain on a rocky area, or in a grassy area with a mixture of trees and sun. I think I will look for the last possibility. I hear it will be cold at night, though not freezing, and it may be very hot during the day. This summer in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1244737058_2">California</span> has been colder than usual, not that sunny either.<br /><br />The head of the altar will have a special flag with an eagle feather and an abalone shell, plus some sacred objects that I can choose. I will be given a pipe and pipe mixture to smoke and pray with. I will have all my clothes and bedding and weather gear with me inside the altar. Supporters will check on me during my three nights. If I decide I already have my vision and don't need to be up on the mountain, I can come down, or if I can't take it for any reason, I can come down to the camp ground and house where a young couple live with their son.<br /><br />I'm committed. I'm going. What am I looking for? What will I find?Margaret Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840290670683536988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076201388989847355.post-8938509816685639992009-04-19T09:25:00.000-07:002009-04-19T09:37:29.876-07:00The audience--Oh, mysterious connection!It's a beautiful spring day here in Pinole, CA. and in a few hours I'm driving to San Francisco to Bird & Becket Books & Records to read. What's the best thing about this experience? The questions and comments from my audience! Who is my audience? Ah, a mystery--and that's the whole adventure today--that's what is really exciting to me. After all, I know what chapters I'm going to read from. I've practiced what I'm going to say in my introduction. I know how my drummer, Josh, is going to punctuate my reading selections with his powerful drumming. I know what the introductory music beforehand will sound like as performed by CWIGGZ, my musical artist son. And I have a good idea of what my reading partner, Susan Alcorn, is going to present. But the communication between me and my audience--that's the real adventure! The mysterious connection!Margaret Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840290670683536988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076201388989847355.post-39844122225872979632009-03-03T08:51:00.000-08:002009-03-03T09:05:05.436-08:00Events: Bird & Becket Books, Sunday, April 19<h2 class="postTitle" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Journeying in Time and Place</h2>Take a journey with two writers through time and place from your seat at Bird & Becket Books, a vintage San Francisco bookstore.<br /><br />I will be reading from <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Sundagger.net</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span> a magical novel of the ancient Anasazi and post-9/11 Silicon Valley. Susan Alcorn will be reading from <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Camino Chronicle: Walking to Santiago,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>a travel essay of adventure in Spain.<br /><p align="center">Sunday, April 19th<br />2:30-4:00<br />followed by reggae music by Heartical Roots.</p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="color:#333366;">Bird & Beckett Books & Records</span><span style="color:#333366;"><br /> <span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236099667_0">653 Chenery Street, in Glen Park</span><br /> <span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236099667_1">San Francisco</span><br /> <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236099667_2">(415) 586-3733</span><br /> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.birdbeckett.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236099667_3">www.birdbeckett.com</span></a></span></strong></span> </p>Margaret Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840290670683536988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076201388989847355.post-85084634869037768382009-02-22T11:36:00.000-08:002009-02-22T12:18:05.983-08:00One book at a time"How is your book doing?" is the first question people ask me when my book <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> comes up. I take that to mean, "How well is it selling?" <br /><br />"One book at a time," is what I answer. Usually the conversation stops at this point. (We all know something about the track record for self-published books by unknown authors.)<br /><br />For the record, I want to make myself clear. One book at a time is an inspiring thing, like the rose blooming in the snow that Bette Midler sings about.<br /><br />Here's an example. Last week I went back to my yoga class at the Pinole Senior Center after a long absence and two of the women I sold books to at Christmas came up to me. They were happy to see me, smiling, their eyes lit up, telling me they'd finished reading <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sundagger.net</span> and had a lot of questions to ask. There was some discussion about me coming to a book group;maybe it was their book group. Someone mentioned having everyone in the yoga class read the book. I'm not sure what all was said because I was putting out my yoga mat and also, I was so surprised, flustered really. Not by their talk, but by how I felt--full of pure inspiration, flying with it, amazed, and grateful.<br /><br />This is what "one book at a time" means to me.Margaret Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840290670683536988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076201388989847355.post-9387319216982865062009-01-25T11:10:00.000-08:002009-01-26T09:27:35.996-08:00Word of Mouth vs Elaborate Websites<span style="font-size:100%;">Today's Sunday New York Times Book Review has an interesting essay on the power of book websites, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;font-size:100%;" > <strong> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/books/review/Sullivan-t.html?emc=eta1"> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1232910373_7">Essay: See the Web Site, Buy the Book</span></a></strong></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;font-size:100%;" > that poses the question</span>: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;font-size:100%;" >Do elaborate Web sites and videos really sell books? As in so much of publishing, no one really knows. </span><span style="font-size:100%;">But, no, there's no verdict in on how they translate to book sales.<br /><br />I sold 3 copies of my book yesterday to the owner of a tiny bookstore in San Francisco that has been around for quite awhile; the owner told me he would return the books to me in one year if they don't sell. What else could I say but, "Sure." He also said you can never tell what book someone will take off the shelf and buy, unless he individually promotes the book to each person coming into the store.<br /><br />In my 2 month experience as a promoter of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sundagger.net</span>, I would say I've learned that, while no one really knows why some books sell and some don't, word of mouth from readers makes all the difference. Oh, elaborate websites are cool, but that's all.<br /></span><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="528"><tbody><tr><td width="10"><br /></td><td valign="top" width="518"><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="518"> <tbody><tr> <td width="11"> <img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/spacer.gif" alt="" height="1" width="11" /> </td> <td class="small" width="507"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="507"> <tbody><tr> <td class="bodycopy" width="507"> <img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/spacer.gif" alt="" height="16" width="1" /> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Margaret Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840290670683536988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076201388989847355.post-23083537666043047272008-12-20T09:52:00.001-08:002008-12-21T11:21:18.825-08:00Events--National Writers Union, December, 2008Let's celebrate ourselves. Come refresh yourself with the sound of the surf, the taste of fine wine, and the best of the spoken word from NWU and lapsed NWU writers. I'm reading from my novel,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.sundagger.net/">Sundagger.net</a>,</span> at the National Writers Union Annual Holiday Party<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1229795598_0">, December 7</span>, 2008, 4-7 p.m.<br /><br />@Cava Wine Bar in Capitola<br />115 <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1229795598_2">San Jose Ave</span><br />476-2282<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cavacapitola.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1229795598_3">www.cavacapitola.com</span></a><br /><br />Complimentary Drinks & Hors d'oeuvres<br />Non-Alcoholic Drinks Available<br /><br />Live Jazz With<br />T. <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1229795598_4">Mike Walker</span>, Bill Minor, & Heath Proskin<br /><br />Hosted by NWU 7<br />The Santa Cruz/Monterey Chapter of the <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1229795598_1">National Writers Union</span>Margaret Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840290670683536988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076201388989847355.post-78380601752364466322008-12-20T09:41:00.000-08:002008-12-21T10:30:52.995-08:00Events--Alexander Book Company, Nov, 2008<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Aho</span> Silicon Valley Writers,<br /><br />As a respite from our catapulting economic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">freefall</span>, take a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Caltrain</span> to SF and hear me read from <span style="font-style: italic;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sundagger.net/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226900866_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Sundagger</span>.net</span></a></span> this coming Thursday at:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alexander Book Co.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">50 <span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226894563_1"><span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226900866_2"><span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226901255_2"><span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1229795067_1">Second Street</span></span></span></span> --near Bart and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226894563_2"><span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226900866_3"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226901255_3"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1229795067_2"><span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Muni</span></span> Metro</span></span></span></span> (<span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226894563_3"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226900866_4"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226901255_4"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1229795067_3">Montgomery Street Station</span></span></span></span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226894563_4"><span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226900866_5"><span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226901255_5"><span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1229795067_4">San Francisco, CA 94105</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thursday, November 20<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">th</span><br />12:30-1:30</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">PM<br /><br /></span><span>Native drumming and songs as well as Q&A are included for the price of the reading (FREE!)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sundagger.net/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226894563_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Sundagger</span>.net</span></a></span> is a first novel of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226894563_7"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226900866_7"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226901255_7">magical realism</span></span></span> set in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226894563_8"><span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226900866_8"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226901255_8"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1229795067_6">Silicon Valley</span></span></span></span> and the Southwest of the <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226894563_9">Anasazi Indians</span>.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">One family, two worlds, many lifetimes.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>Alexander Book Co. is a great independent bookstore with three floors of books to browse and shop in, featuring extensive African-American, Children's and <span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226894563_10"><span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226900866_9"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226901255_9">Graphic Design Departments</span></span></span>.<br /><br />Hope to see you!Margaret Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840290670683536988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076201388989847355.post-25381556516616468372008-12-20T09:25:00.000-08:002008-12-21T10:24:58.713-08:00Events--LitQuake, October 2008A ho! friends and book lovers,<br /><br />Join me on the last night of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">LitQuake</span>, San Francisco's <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1222135159_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1229794302_0">literary festival</span></span>, the book lover's version of the traditional pub crawl through the heart of the Mission District. Native drumming will be included in my reading. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sundagger.net/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1222135159_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Sundagger</span>.net</span></a></span> is a novel of <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1222135159_8"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1229794302_1">magical realism</span></span> casting a wide net from the ancient Anasazi of the Southwest to the techno-frenzy of Silicon Valley. Go to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sundagger.net/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1222135159_9">http://sundagger.net</span></a> for more.<br /><br />I will be reading along with other powerful writers on the theme of <span style="font-style: italic;" class="Event">Finding Spirit in Everyday Life</span>: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.litquake.org/authors/beak-sera/">S<span>era </span>Beak</a>,<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.litquake.org/authors/bolen-jean-shinoda/"> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1222135159_1">Jean <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Shinoda</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Bolen</span></span></a>, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.litquake.org/authors/gelfand-joan/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1222135159_2">Joan <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Gelfand</span></span></a>, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.litquake.org/authors/lesser-marc/" title="Marc Lesser"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1222135159_3">Marc Lesser</span></a>, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.litquake.org/authors/rose-naomi/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1222135159_5">Naomi Rose</span></a><br /><br />Here's what they're saying about us at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">LitQuake</span>: <span class="Event">"Inspired, Enraged, and Even Funny, These Voices Invoke Third Millennium Spirituality</span>." (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.litquake.org/the-festival/lit-crawl-2008/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1222135159_6">http://www.litquake.org/the-festival/lit-crawl-2008/</span></a>).<br /><br />You can imagine how excited I am. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sundagger.net/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1222135159_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Sundagger</span>.net</span></a></span>, is being printed as I write this.<br /><br />October 11, 2008<br />Saturday, at 6PM-7PM<br /><span class="Location">Forest Books, 3080 16<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">th</span> Street</span> at Valencia<br />San Francisco, CA.Margaret Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840290670683536988noreply@blogger.com0