reviews_and_ramblings | Event: Smashing Stereotypes!

Date: Saturday September 11, 2010
Time: from 11am-3pm
Place: Pi on Sunset (2 doors West of Book Soup)
8828 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069

The first in a series of Diversity-Celebrating Writing Workshops Lee Wind will presenting with Book Soup in West Hollywood, California

Smashing Stereotypes!
The Writing Workshop
with Special Guest Author Francesca Lia Block

Benefiting City of Hope

Renowned author Francesca Lia Block will be featured, and she will discuss the challenges of stereotypes and how she has overcome them in her writing. Francesca has published over 30 books, spanning Young Adult novels, poetry, and short stories collections. She is the author of the groundbreaking “Weetzie Bat” books which have been credited by the Los Angeles Times with “...helping to revolutionize young adult literature.”

Reading level: Young Adult

Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen; 10 Anv edition (July 6, 2004)
ISBN-10: 0060736259
ISBN-13: 978-0060736255
Amazon: Weetzie Bat

Fifteen years ago Francesca Lia Block made a dazzling entrance into the literary scene with what would become one of the most talked-about books of the decade: Weetzie Bat. This poetic roller coaster swoop has a sleek new design to match its new sister and brother books, Goat Girls and Beautiful Boys. Rediscover the magic of Weetzie Bat, Ms. Blocks sophisticated, slinkster-cool love song to L.A.the book that shattered the standard, captivated readers of all generations, and made Francesca Lia Block one of the most heralded authors of the last decade.

http://www.leewind.org/2010/08/smashing-stereotypes-writing-workshop.html