Author Archive | Sylvia Allen

Third batch of early reader reviews

Here’s the third batch of early reader reviews of Like Light from Stars. I…enjoyed it immensely. I was completely caught up in your character development and felt like I was on an excellent walking tour of San Francisco.  Alice Silverstein I started reading your book and can’t put it down! I feel like I’m there. […]

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More Early Reader Reviews

Here’s the second batch of early reader reviews of Like Light from Stars: Once I started it, I couldn’t put it down, and ended up devouring it in one gulp. Many times I had to stop for a while because I was crying too hard to see.  Ginny Schwingel I read your book cover to […]

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Those Historic Gay Marriages

I’ve told Martha, “I’ll marry you as many times as it takes.” I guess we’re done getting married now. Here’s a story I wrote about those historic gay marriages in San Francisco in 2004. A version of it was published in Bad Subjects that year. I heard about the San Francisco same-sex marriages on a Thursday afternoon in […]

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Reading at Bookstore Benefit

I just got back from reading at a benefit for St. Johns Booksellers, our little town’s beloved independent bookstore. The benefit was at Plew’s Brews, the local craft-beer-and-live-music place, and was lively, beery, cheerful, and noisy. I was one of several writers reading our own work. Also reading, among others: Martha Shelley, Kate de Gutes, […]

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