My California debuts

Angel City Press and CaliforniaAuthors.com took their new anthology of travel and adventure essays to last week's Book Expo America in Chicago. And it was a hit with the West Coasters, they say. My California is the book of donated writing that will benefit the state arts council. Also, Mark Sarvas of the Los Angeles-based literary blog The Elegant Variation (subtitle Ad nocendum potentes sumus) was there and reports on a panel about blogs he was on. The title: Rewriting the rules of tastemaking and trade influence. Other panelists included Michael Cader of Publishers Lunch and Bookslut editor in chief Jessa Crispin.