Book Giveaway For Mosh It Up Mosh It Up by Mindela Ruby (Goodreads Author) Release date: Dec 05, 2014 Enter for a chance to win a copy of Mosh It Up, the uproarious story of a punk rock sex addict’s funny and bumpy road to redemption. My book premiered at the end of 2014, but when you …
Stone Bridge Press has a new Fiction Friday web series featuring flash fiction, and I’m honored that my 100-word flash, “What’s Shiba Inu?,” is the inaugural piece in the series! Thanks to publisher Robert Koeze. Check out my tiny story, and the books about Japan the press publishes. http://www.stonebridge.com/sbp-blog/fictional-fridays-whats-shiba-inu
I’m generally a healthy eater. But I come from a family of people with eating disorders. I was an overweight child until I got anorexia. At 15 years old I was told by my doctor that I was beginning the process of dying of malnutrition. I recovered from that but still, decades later, can easily …
My dear friend artist DC Spensley Periscoped my reading at Rolling Writers on Saturday and shared the video on FB.The link below will transport you to the Rolling Out Bakery in San Francisco’s quirky Parkside, to hear these three short sections of the novel and the intro about Kanye West. The section Writing and Wronging was also published in …
August 21, 2015, Pegasus Books, Berkeley
I’ll be participating in the latest Lip Service West show this Friday, Aug. 21, 7:30 PM at Berkeley’s hopping Pegasus Books Downtown. It’s a great bill of authors sharing their true and gritty stories! http://www.lipservicewest.com
August 23 – 3 PM. For years I conducted interviews on college radio; now the table’s turned on me, and I’m the one answering the questions. See if you can get to the picture of me with pink hair in the link below! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/girl-george/2015/08/23/mindela-rubyauthor-mosh-it-up-dj-kalxgirlgeoradioshow-8-23-15
I enjoyed this commentary immensely; it helps me understand my own writing, including Mosh It Up, and is an excellent insight into the role of emotional pain in deepening story plots: https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/generating-page-turning-momentum-characters-the-wound/
I’m grateful to Blotterature Literary Magazine for throwing some love at my novel! Review of Mosh It Up http://blotterature.com/2015/07/01/blot-lit-reviews-mosh-it-up-by-mindela-ruby/ Interview with Mindela Ruby http://blotterature.com/2015/07/02/blot-lit-reviews-an-interview-with-mindela-ruby/
At the first Oakland Book Festival on Saturday, I attended one event, a discussion chaired by Grant Faulkner with the authors of two dazzling books I’ve recently read, Adam Johnson (The Orphan Master’s Son) and Jenny Offill (Dept. of Speculation). Faulkner posited a link between their two different works, describing them as trauma narratives, Johnson’s …
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