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About Me

Kitty Goes Californian is a summer surfari teen adventure about a New York surfer girl with a Gidget obsession who gets to spend the summer with her soul surfing dad with in California.
Kitty was first published as an online-only book - a sort of indy-web publishing experiment - and is now available in paperback as well. If you grab a copy, you'll hopefully have a fun read, be supporting the indy arts and get big gold stars on your karma report card - all at one time!
What the readers say
Kitty was chosen as a staff pick by Teens Read, Too for 2006. That was rad - especially as all other books on the list had major publishing houses behind them.
And Kitty was just chosen as one of Teen Book Reviewer's Top 5 for January 2007. (Again the only indy book in the list - go Kitty!)
You can buy Kitty in paperback at Amazon or Target or read it for free at http://www.kittygoescalifornian.com
I love reader feedback so please send it on in!

My Interests

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Writers, readers, librarians, wahines, surfers, eco-activists, adventurers, indy artists

My Blog

Beach Bash at Connecticut Surfrider - Today, June 16!

Today is the big Beach Bash day for Connecticut Surfrider to help raise awareness and encourage new members to join the clean water fight!I sent over a box of Kitty Goes Californian books to help rai...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:44:00 GMT

New surf show - John from Cincinnati

I just read a piece in the LATimes about the new surf show called John from Cincinnati. It's debuting on HBO on June 10th. (Though it will probably take years to make it over here to the UK!)There was...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:40:00 GMT

Surf goes brown in Malibu

This is so depressing! The famous Malibu break (see My Photos) is going through another polluted phase, like clockwork. The NYTimes covered it - it's a good read.Malibu Surf Goes BrownNote: The paper ...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:11:00 GMT

The beautiful shores of Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Just back from a trip up to the Outer Hebrides (Scotland) where there was the most amazing coastline. The views from every drive, every hike and the window of our small propeller plane were unbelievab...
Posted by on Sun, 27 May 2007 16:59:00 GMT

What happened to the legends?

When I first started researching for Kitty way back when, I spent weeks and months digging into loads of old time Malibu and Southern California surf scene reading and photos. The true stories of Tube...
Posted by on Sun, 20 May 2007 08:20:00 GMT

Kitty T-Shirt Designs

As part of Kitty's efforts to help raise funds for CT Surfrider, we'll be doing some groovy t-shirts. If anyone out there has any inspiration, let me know. The fund raising activities will be at a CT ...
Posted by on Wed, 09 May 2007 14:45:00 GMT

The real Gidget

If you've read Kitty Goes Californian, you'll know that Kitty has a major Gidget fixation. She longs to find a world as breezy and light hearted as the Gidge's days in Malibu.Researching that aspect o...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:07:00 GMT

Kitty and Surfrider team up

Very exciting news! Connecticut Surfrider has asked that Kitty be used to help raise funds for their water protection efforts. Surfrider is a fabulous non-profit organization with chapters all over th...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:34:00 GMT

Teen Book Reviewer January Top Picks

A huge thanks to Jocelyn for being willing to review Kitty Goes..., even though it's an indy, and for her great feedback earlier this year. Especially for including it in her top picks of January 200...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:41:00 GMT

Book diva forum

Just found the sweetest review by wordygirlj in the Book Divas forum. Since I have done so little marketing for Kitty, whenever someone finds it, likes it, and writes about it, I'm like, wow. 'It's b...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:20:00 GMT