Books, Inc: San Francisco, California

Top Left: Captured at Books Inc–just a few of the powerful women in this audience: front left: Marya Stark (Emerge America board chair); middle left Google executive Rachel Payne; back row my editor at Seal Press Brooke Warner and publisher Krista Lyons; Front row center activist par excellence Marilyn Fowler representing Women’s Intercultural Network-California Women’s Agenda, and right semi-hidden by my book is environmental blogger Beth Terry of Fake Plastic Fish.

Top Right: Me and Heidi Groshelle at the Books, Inc. signing

Bottom Left: Blogger Beth Terry (check out Fake Plastic Fish) tells her inspiring story of how she used the power tool “create a movement” and got Brita to make its filters recyclable.

Bottom Right: Marilyn Fowler, stalwart leader of U.S. Women Connect and the Women’s Intercultural Network shares her power to story.

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Kepler’s Books: San Francisco, California

I had a whirlwind trip to the Bay Area, with a book event at Kepler’s Books on October 20th, and private book readings in Menlo Park and Palo Alto on October 21st and 22nd.

Left: Reading a story about baby elephants at the No Excuses event at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park.

Center: I’d asked Marian if she wanted to have breakfast on my last morning in a week-long Northern CA tour since she couldn’t make the reading at Kepler’s. Next thing I knew she had 40 women coming for breakfast. What a send-off!

Right: The bookseller quickly ran out of books!

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