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Dear Friends,

Just a reminder that my book tour is heading to the following cities:

Seattle - Elliott Bay Book Co; May 6 at 6pm (book "singing")

LA - A Different Light Books; May 7 at 7pm (book "singing")

NYC - Barnes & Noble-W. 82nd Street; May 12 at 7pm

Menlo Park, NJ - Barnes & Noble; May 13 at 7pm

Beaverton, OR - Borders; May 20 at 7pm (book "singing")

If you know anyone in these cities, please email them and urge them to attend. There… Continue

There are too many of us who are embarrassed to admit we break out into show tunes just walking down the street. Well, no more. We're taking back the streets. Click here to watch a promotional video for my new book :

ATTACK OF THE THEATER PEOPLE

I've just signed the contract for the Recorded Books version of ATTACK OF THE THEATER PEOPLE. Hopefully, the company will ask Jeff Woodman to record it because he did the best job reading HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE. He sounds exactly like the voices in my head do, which is kind of creepy in a stalkerish way.

Forgive my excitement but I just received word that Stephen Schwartz (composer of Wicked, Pippin and Godspell) and Jeff Marx (co-creator of Avenue Q) have blurbed my new book, ATTACK OF THE THEATER PEOPLE.

Schwartz said, "Sort of an east coast Tales of the City, this over-the-top yet scarily accurate burlesque of theatre folk rampaging through ‘80s Manhattan caused me gasps of appalled recognition and frequent laughing out loud. It's the kind of book where you read passages to fri… Continue

April 22 is the new pub date for ATTACK OF THE THEATER PEOPLE, my long awaited sequel to HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater.



If HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE is my love letter to all the theater geeks in the world who band together to get through high school, then ATTACK OF THE THEATER PEOPLE is about what happens when the curtain comes down, the lights come up and reality sets in. Of course, since Edward Zanni and friend… Continue