I’ll be participating in the Book Group Expo this Saturday and Sunday at the San Jose Convention Center, where fifty authors will live it up in a literary way with readers. The Book Group Expo website says it best:
Book Lovers! Attend a first-of-its-kind event and have a SPA DAY for your Brain! Meet (famous) authors. Eat chocolate. Attend lively discussions. Taste wine. Have your books signed. Sample desserts. Meet other serious readers. Watch LIVE cooking demonstrations. Meet (not yet famous) authors. Savor fine tea. Browse books—lots of books—to your heart’s content. Listen to literati. Enjoy friends. Eat more chocolate. Learn about book groups and book clubs. Have fun. Serious fun.

If you can’t imagine what you’d do without your book group. Or you’ve always wanted to be in one. Or if you are simply a serious reader, book group expo is for you! Among the authors are Amy Tan, Dorothy Allison, Ayelet Waldman, Mary Roach, Rabih Alameddine, Andrew Sean Greer, ZZ Packer, and others.

I’ll be on a panel with Sylvia Brownrigg, Elizabeth Dewberry, and Adrienne Sharp, talking about writing “complex relationships.” (I think maybe I ended up on this panel because the narrator of Dream of the Blue Room is married to a guy but is still in love with her high school friend Amanda Ruth, who was murdered twelve years earlier–which means she, um, has some issues to work out).