Stories Books & Cafe Hosts Francesca Lia Block and other authors on Friday, November 13th at 7:30pm

Stories Books & Cafe

Francesca Lia Block

Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry. She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award and the2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association and from the New York Times Book Review, School Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly. Her work has been translated into Italian, French, German Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Portuguese. Francesca has also published stories, poems, essays and interviews in The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Review of Books, Spin, Nylon, Black Clock and Rattle among others. In addition to writing, she teaches fiction workshops at UCLA Extension, Antioch University,  Writing Pad and privately in Los Angeles where she was born, raised and currently still lives.

Now on Kindle

Her new book, Rough Magick, at the present a Kindle Edition, is a collection of stories by other writers, that was edited by Francesca and Jessa Marie Mendez. Francesca: ” In Rough Magick, we have gathered together a collection of haunting, sometimes chilling, short stories and poems about the darker side of love and sex. Some of the stories are magical; some are more realistic and the “magic” comes through in language and lyricism. Some protagonists are teens and some are adults. There is romanticism and eroticism and even horror. What unites the stories is that the writers have boldly faced love’s shadows in unique and gripping ways.”  The writers are Amanda Yates Garcia, Jessa Marie Mendez, Ashley Inguanta, Daniel Weizmann, Mary Pauline Lowry, Justina Aura Nemoy, Sarah Herrington, Francesca Padilla, Alise Wascom, Tracy DeBrincat, Denise Hamilton, and Manuel Chavarria.  At this event, some of the authors will be reading from the book.

Stories Books & Cafe is at 1716 Sunset Blvd., in Echo Park.  For further information call 213-413-3733