The Y Tour - Denver - June 4-7, 2009

The Y Tour is over...for now. For photographs and blogs about this fabulous event, visit BellaYTour.com

Because WomYn are better together!

The first-ever Bella Books and Spinsters Ink Y Tour is taking place June 4-7 in Denver!

The Y Tour is about womYn working together, creating, building, dancing and reading. Several events are planned with Denver womYn's and charitible groups, including:

• Thursday night kickoff party! Get first crack at our inventory of books.



• The First Friday Dance by Babes Around Denver. We will have books on hand for signing, if you can catch us off the dance floor. A portion of profits will be donated to Metro Denver's Habitat for Humanity.



• Saturday Build! Bella & Spinsters authors will join with Tomboy Tools for a Habitat workday.



• Sunday afternoon at Belmar Public Library, a reading with questions and answers. It's one last chance to pick up copies from the authors, or to bring your own for signing after the program.

Kenna White * Karin Kallmaker * KG MacGregor * Ruth Perkinson * Tracey Richardson * Rose Pry

We hope you'll join us reading, building and dancing!

Hayward Main Library

After event note: We had a great reading and post-reading discussion. My photos here. The Hayward Public Library's photos here.


Thanks to the organization of Jake Anderson-Minshall, the LGFBAT will be reading at two libraries in the next couple of months. The tour members are:

Gabrielle Goldsby
JLee Meyer
Diane & Jacob Anderson-Minshall
Anna Furtado
Ursula Steck
And moi, of course

On Saturday, March 15, we’ll be at the Hayward Main Library, starting at 2 p.m. Given the afternoon timeframe, it seems like a G-rated reading from the new edition of Christabel is in order. I haven’t ever read from Christabel, so I’m really looking forward to it.


Breaking news: Jaime Clevenger will be joining the tour for the Hayward Library reading, reading from All Bets Off!

San Francisco Public Library Main

Wow! A great turn out for this event. After a long work day and in the middle of the week about 30 or so avid fans of lesbian fiction turned out to hear our group read. Photos from the event are at Flickr. (As always, no log in is required to view or comment on the photos.)

Unfortunately, unexpected events kept Anna Furtado and JLee Meyer from joining us, and they were very much missed.

Reading at this event therefore were:
Gabrielle Goldsby read from Such a Pretty Face
Diane & Jacob Anderson-Minshall each read from Blind Leap
Ursula Steck read from Laura's War

I read the short story "Filled to Overflowing" from In Deep Waters 1. A reader in the audience was kind enough to film my portion of the event. You can watch the video at YouTube, including the out take of me looking for my glasses.