Books

Author Carmela Ciuraru makes SoCal appearance on Sunday

Carmela Ciuraru — writer extraordinaire and friend of All is Yar — is appearing at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena tomorrow at 4pm to discuss and read from her critically-acclaimed book, Nom de Plume.  She’ll be joined and interviewed by Nick Owcher, book editor for the Los Angeles Times. She rarely makes it out to California, so take this … Continue reading

Books

Writing Pseudonymously

My friend, Carmela Ciuraru (not a pseudonym), continues to gain much positive attention for her most recent book, Nom de Plume:  A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms (Harper Collins).   Carmela is a wonderful writer with an arrestingly dry sense of humor*, and she takes an interesting concept (which, not-so-shockingly, is near and dear to my heart) … Continue reading