E.E. King's Blog
June 20, 2013
How lucky am I?
Performance and Reading at Stories Book and Café in Echo Park
Posted on June 2, 2013 by E.E. King
How lucky am I?
A Book Launch at Mystery and Imagination and a performance and reading at Stories Book and Café
My new Collection of short fiction “Another Happy Ending,” is being released on October 15th. And on October 20th, Sunday, 2013 at 3:00 pm I will have a launch party reading at Ray Bradbury’s and my favorite Bookstore the “Mystery and Imagination (238 N. Brand Blvd. in Glendale.)
The Book includes the novella, “The Card Game,” in which Fate, Destiny, Chance and Luck play a game of cards under a crescent moon. Each card revels a tale.
The reading room is up a stairway so narrow and steep you may need to grab a tank of fiction just to breathe the rarefied atmosphere. The walls are autographed by all the writers who have read there, and just seeing the pantheon of greats can make you weak kneed. Autograph hounds have been tempted to steal the walls, but they are well protected by all the great crime fighters of fiction. Besides, it’s difficult to fit walls into autograph files or scrapbooks.
One of the good things about Los Angeles is that, because it’s so spread out, it’s like a city-state, so many parts, all unique. That means you are allowed more than one “Favorite “bookstore.
One in Glendale, one in Santa Monica, one in Echo Park…. you get the idea.
My Favorite bookstore in Echo Park is “Stories Book and Café.”
1716 West Sunset Blvd • Los Angeles • CA [213] 413-3733 OPEN @ 8:30 am Monday – Friday • 10 am Sat –Sun CLOSE@ 9:00 pm Mon – Thurs • 10 pm Fri – Sat • 8 pm Sun
They have a wonderful collection of new and use books and a delicious selection of new food and coffee.
I love Stories; it’s like visiting the library of an erudite friend who brews wonderful coffee. In the back is a large patio where writers read, musicians play and stories are revealed. It’s a doorway into a world of imagination, fantasy, travel and far off places.
I am going to be performing and reading there right around Halloween. (I’m still figuring out the past time, so I’ll keep you posted.
I’m performing bits from my first novel, “Dirk Quigby’s Guide to the Afterlife, all you need to know to choose the right heaven.”
It’s a guide to eighteen religions, complete with a 5***** rating system for food drink, music, accommodations and entry requirements, as reviewed by Lucifer.
.
(The Book was released in Spain in 2012 by the, aptly named Jesús Ortiz of Milrazones publica.)
Check here for reviews on Dirk http://dld.bz/cANYt
The Jews http://dld.bz/bTjkE
And the Rastafarian
http://dld.bz/bTjkP
And an interview with the marvelous Connie Martinson TALKS BOOKS
http://dld.bz/cANY5
Part II http://dld.bz/cANZb
I will also be reading from my new book, “another Happy Ending,” so titled because none of the stories have happy endings.
I’ll be reading right around Halloween… Fate and Chance, The Devil and The Afterlife, what could be more appropriate? I’ll bring candy too.
Both readings will be completely different and both will be in magical bookstores, so it’s well worth a visit even if you don’t want to hear me read.
Even if you plug your ears with wax, or stick your fingers in your ears and sing, the tales will creep from the shelves and taking you to enchanted destinations.
Sip great coffee and munch freshly baked goods while debating the merits of various afterlives.
I Hope to see you there!
E. E. King
Posted on June 2, 2013 by E.E. King
How lucky am I?
A Book Launch at Mystery and Imagination and a performance and reading at Stories Book and Café
My new Collection of short fiction “Another Happy Ending,” is being released on October 15th. And on October 20th, Sunday, 2013 at 3:00 pm I will have a launch party reading at Ray Bradbury’s and my favorite Bookstore the “Mystery and Imagination (238 N. Brand Blvd. in Glendale.)
The Book includes the novella, “The Card Game,” in which Fate, Destiny, Chance and Luck play a game of cards under a crescent moon. Each card revels a tale.
The reading room is up a stairway so narrow and steep you may need to grab a tank of fiction just to breathe the rarefied atmosphere. The walls are autographed by all the writers who have read there, and just seeing the pantheon of greats can make you weak kneed. Autograph hounds have been tempted to steal the walls, but they are well protected by all the great crime fighters of fiction. Besides, it’s difficult to fit walls into autograph files or scrapbooks.
One of the good things about Los Angeles is that, because it’s so spread out, it’s like a city-state, so many parts, all unique. That means you are allowed more than one “Favorite “bookstore.
One in Glendale, one in Santa Monica, one in Echo Park…. you get the idea.
My Favorite bookstore in Echo Park is “Stories Book and Café.”
1716 West Sunset Blvd • Los Angeles • CA [213] 413-3733 OPEN @ 8:30 am Monday – Friday • 10 am Sat –Sun CLOSE@ 9:00 pm Mon – Thurs • 10 pm Fri – Sat • 8 pm Sun
They have a wonderful collection of new and use books and a delicious selection of new food and coffee.
I love Stories; it’s like visiting the library of an erudite friend who brews wonderful coffee. In the back is a large patio where writers read, musicians play and stories are revealed. It’s a doorway into a world of imagination, fantasy, travel and far off places.
I am going to be performing and reading there right around Halloween. (I’m still figuring out the past time, so I’ll keep you posted.
I’m performing bits from my first novel, “Dirk Quigby’s Guide to the Afterlife, all you need to know to choose the right heaven.”
It’s a guide to eighteen religions, complete with a 5***** rating system for food drink, music, accommodations and entry requirements, as reviewed by Lucifer.
.
(The Book was released in Spain in 2012 by the, aptly named Jesús Ortiz of Milrazones publica.)
Check here for reviews on Dirk http://dld.bz/cANYt
The Jews http://dld.bz/bTjkE
And the Rastafarian
http://dld.bz/bTjkP
And an interview with the marvelous Connie Martinson TALKS BOOKS
http://dld.bz/cANY5
Part II http://dld.bz/cANZb
I will also be reading from my new book, “another Happy Ending,” so titled because none of the stories have happy endings.
I’ll be reading right around Halloween… Fate and Chance, The Devil and The Afterlife, what could be more appropriate? I’ll bring candy too.
Both readings will be completely different and both will be in magical bookstores, so it’s well worth a visit even if you don’t want to hear me read.
Even if you plug your ears with wax, or stick your fingers in your ears and sing, the tales will creep from the shelves and taking you to enchanted destinations.
Sip great coffee and munch freshly baked goods while debating the merits of various afterlives.
I Hope to see you there!
E. E. King
Another Happy Reading, at Ray Bradbury’s “Mystery and Imagination
I’m going to be having a reading of my new collection of short fiction (and a novella) “Another Happy Ending,” at Ray Bradbury’s and my favorite Bookstore the “Mystery and Imagination (238 N. Brand Blvd. in Glendale.)
It will probably be yours too if you live in Los Angeles. Everyone’s seen a book store like the M & I, at least in their imaginings.
Narrow isles packed with books so thick characters rub elbows with you. Fat patrons get wedged between the shelves and have to survive on a diet of short fiction until they can squeeze free. It’s organized, but so jam packed with ideas and fancies it makes one’s head spin.
On your way to the reading room which is up flight of stairs narrow as steep and a passage to the stars you will probably meet at least one of the proprietors, Christine and Malcolm Bell, purveyors of Mystery, Detective, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror since 1975.
You can’t miss Christine she’s the one who you’ll swear just swirled from the pages of a fairy tale, sprightly as a pixie with a contagious grin. Her eyes sparkle, containing worlds and wonders.
I remember her shimming in black and purple shiny as a dewdrop to celebrate one of Ray’s birthdays.
I don’t remember which birthday it was; he always had a party there. He’d remember though. The man never forgot a thing... not a person a phrase, an idea or a kindness.
We who were lucky enough to know him are all better for it. (I would say we who were lucky enough to call Ray a friend but he extended that appellation to all. Even I blessed to be titled “an honorary Bradbury” to have Ray as a “second father – Rabbi – Priest and mentor” – am far from an only child. The man had more honorary offspring than a Mormon catholic hybrid. I’m only fortunate that his real blood progeny are as generous as their father.
I remember when I finished my first book, “Dirk Quigby’s Guide to the Afterlife, all you need to know to choose the right heaven.” Of course I called Ray. “Fabulous,” he cried. “I’ll send it to my agent!” and he did. His agent was less impressed.
When it finally came out in 2010, published by Exterminating Angel Press, I told Ray. “Evie,” he said “I want to host an opening at my favorite bookstore.” And he did. Sadly Ray couldn’t attend as the day was 110 degrees. Hot enough to melt my friends into the upholstery of their cars. Hot enough that patrons climbed into novels about Mars hoping for cooler temperatures.
The Book was released in Spain in 2012 by the lovely, aptly named Jesús Ortiz of Milrazones publica.
The new collection I should add is my second. The first “Real Conversations with Imaginary Friends” released in 2012 by a good man but a bad – or rather an inexperienced- publisher. The press lasted not even a year and the book with it. Most of the stories in that collection -reworked and improved– are included here - along with many, many more.
This collection “Another Happy Ending” so titled because few of the tales – like life – have joyful outcomes.
Credit – or blame – for the title goes to my sister Miriam – who, when I told her my latest story – made this remark -“Another happy ending.” Miriam is a woman of few words, but she makes them count. The book is being published by the marvelous and slightly zany Max Booth and Lori Michelle of Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing.
Also in this tome, inspired more than a little by “The Illustrated Man,” is a novella. Fate, Destiny, Chance and Luck are playing a game of cards under a crescent moon. An ill wind blows up destroying their game so they decide to tell stories, each card revels a tale.
When I told Ray I was stealing his idea of using a narrative to connect my tales he beamed. “Excellent,” he cried “Steal more!”
I have not yet titled my next novel. I’m vacillating between “Fahrenheit 451” and the “Martian Chronicles.”
“Enough already,” I can hear Ray saying. He leans over my shoulder smiling, strong and seventy years young – Only yesterday and almost half a world ago. “This needs a bit of cutting,” he says.
And so I will obey – if not my inner voice than Ray’s remembered.
I don’t yet have a day or time but when I do I’ll let you know. I hope you’ll drop by. If you come, be sure to look around. Somewhere in a corner just out of sight, yet visible to the heart you might see Ray smiling that great engulfing smile of his - including us all in that galaxy of imagination, hope, belief and love that he created, Inviting us all to stop by for a chat.
If you can’t come for my reading, stop by anyway - The most mysterious imaginative bookstore in Glendale is well worth a visit. Better check the times though.... on their Facebook page it says
“Closed until tomorrow 12:30 pm - 7:00 pm”
Mysterious and Imaginative indeed.
238 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA.
+1 818-545-0206
It will probably be yours too if you live in Los Angeles. Everyone’s seen a book store like the M & I, at least in their imaginings.
Narrow isles packed with books so thick characters rub elbows with you. Fat patrons get wedged between the shelves and have to survive on a diet of short fiction until they can squeeze free. It’s organized, but so jam packed with ideas and fancies it makes one’s head spin.
On your way to the reading room which is up flight of stairs narrow as steep and a passage to the stars you will probably meet at least one of the proprietors, Christine and Malcolm Bell, purveyors of Mystery, Detective, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror since 1975.
You can’t miss Christine she’s the one who you’ll swear just swirled from the pages of a fairy tale, sprightly as a pixie with a contagious grin. Her eyes sparkle, containing worlds and wonders.
I remember her shimming in black and purple shiny as a dewdrop to celebrate one of Ray’s birthdays.
I don’t remember which birthday it was; he always had a party there. He’d remember though. The man never forgot a thing... not a person a phrase, an idea or a kindness.
We who were lucky enough to know him are all better for it. (I would say we who were lucky enough to call Ray a friend but he extended that appellation to all. Even I blessed to be titled “an honorary Bradbury” to have Ray as a “second father – Rabbi – Priest and mentor” – am far from an only child. The man had more honorary offspring than a Mormon catholic hybrid. I’m only fortunate that his real blood progeny are as generous as their father.
I remember when I finished my first book, “Dirk Quigby’s Guide to the Afterlife, all you need to know to choose the right heaven.” Of course I called Ray. “Fabulous,” he cried. “I’ll send it to my agent!” and he did. His agent was less impressed.
When it finally came out in 2010, published by Exterminating Angel Press, I told Ray. “Evie,” he said “I want to host an opening at my favorite bookstore.” And he did. Sadly Ray couldn’t attend as the day was 110 degrees. Hot enough to melt my friends into the upholstery of their cars. Hot enough that patrons climbed into novels about Mars hoping for cooler temperatures.
The Book was released in Spain in 2012 by the lovely, aptly named Jesús Ortiz of Milrazones publica.
The new collection I should add is my second. The first “Real Conversations with Imaginary Friends” released in 2012 by a good man but a bad – or rather an inexperienced- publisher. The press lasted not even a year and the book with it. Most of the stories in that collection -reworked and improved– are included here - along with many, many more.
This collection “Another Happy Ending” so titled because few of the tales – like life – have joyful outcomes.
Credit – or blame – for the title goes to my sister Miriam – who, when I told her my latest story – made this remark -“Another happy ending.” Miriam is a woman of few words, but she makes them count. The book is being published by the marvelous and slightly zany Max Booth and Lori Michelle of Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing.
Also in this tome, inspired more than a little by “The Illustrated Man,” is a novella. Fate, Destiny, Chance and Luck are playing a game of cards under a crescent moon. An ill wind blows up destroying their game so they decide to tell stories, each card revels a tale.
When I told Ray I was stealing his idea of using a narrative to connect my tales he beamed. “Excellent,” he cried “Steal more!”
I have not yet titled my next novel. I’m vacillating between “Fahrenheit 451” and the “Martian Chronicles.”
“Enough already,” I can hear Ray saying. He leans over my shoulder smiling, strong and seventy years young – Only yesterday and almost half a world ago. “This needs a bit of cutting,” he says.
And so I will obey – if not my inner voice than Ray’s remembered.
I don’t yet have a day or time but when I do I’ll let you know. I hope you’ll drop by. If you come, be sure to look around. Somewhere in a corner just out of sight, yet visible to the heart you might see Ray smiling that great engulfing smile of his - including us all in that galaxy of imagination, hope, belief and love that he created, Inviting us all to stop by for a chat.
If you can’t come for my reading, stop by anyway - The most mysterious imaginative bookstore in Glendale is well worth a visit. Better check the times though.... on their Facebook page it says
“Closed until tomorrow 12:30 pm - 7:00 pm”
Mysterious and Imaginative indeed.
238 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA.
+1 818-545-0206
November 23, 2011
New Books
The New Short Fiction Series, L.A.'s longest running short story series, is kicking-off their 16th season with the book launch of Real Conversations With Imaginary Friends, by E.E. King, The Federal Bar, January 8, 2012. Sponsor, Barnes & Noble
The illustrated version of The Adventures of Emily Finfeather or The Feathernail and Other Gifts
is due for release March 2012.
The illustrated version of The Adventures of Emily Finfeather or The Feathernail and Other Gifts
is due for release March 2012.
