The a u t h o r

Joe Gold is a freelance writer and marketing consultant in San Francisco. He routinely morphs into a web journalist, tech marketer, ad copywriter, broadcast producer, teacher and two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.

Joe is the first American-born son of scrappy Holocaust survivors. His childhood was on a Woodbine, NJ, chicken farm, and teen years in Philadelphia.

He was 18 and fresh from the second Kennedy assination when the family moved to Tucson and Joe started journalism at the University of Arizona. He wrote for the Tucson Free Press, the Tucson Weekly and the Philadelphia Bulletin.

At the Arizona Daily Star, he was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, first for a groundbreaking series on gay rights and then a Sunday feature of long range transportation plans.

He hiked canyons, started Gold Images advertising agency and taught college marketing. Although he managed his dad's Lamp Post Motel for a few years, the story is pure fiction.

After decades of lusting for San Francisco, Joe Go left his home in Tucson, Arizona; bought some California grass. Living in the Bay Area has surpassed the highest hopes. He is currently co-chair of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the National Writers Union.

Unfortunately, he bears no relation to another Joe Gold who founded World Gym and Gold's Gym and was a guest on Groucho Marx' You Bet Your Life.

 



Joe Gold
www.goldscribe.com

 

 

Personal appearances and milestones, upcoming and past

  • TusCon science fiction convention, Tucson, AZ, November 9-11, 2007
  • Podcast on Podiobooks.com complete on first anniversary of publication date, Oct. 22, 2007
  • Sonoma County Book Festival, Santa Rosa, CA, September 15, 2007
  • National Writers Union Delegates Assembly reading, Emerson College, Boston, MA, August 11, 2007
  • Bird and Beckett, San Francisco, July 30, 2007
  • Bonanza Street Books, Walnut Creek, CA, July 29, 2007
  • Arizona Book Festival, Phoenix, April 14, 2007
  • Books Inc., Mountain View, CA, Feb. 21, 2007
  • Podcast audiobook launch on Podiobooks.com, Feb. 11, 2007
  • Borders Books, Park Place Mall, Tucson, Dec. 17, 2006
  • Mal Sharpe's "Back on Basin Street," KCSM 91.1 Bay Area jazz radio, December 3, 2006
  • Bent Cover Books, Phoenix, AZ  November 25, 2006
  • TusCon science fiction convention, Tucson, AZ, November 11-12, 2006
  • Official launch Oct. 22, 2006, Borderlands Books, San Francisco
  • CopperCon, Tempe, AZ, Sept. 1-3, 2006; first public reading
  • WorldCon, Anaheim, CA Aug 24-27, 2006; prepress edition release


Minutae you need not care about

  • Born in Gary, Indiana, 1950. Escaped as an infant to New Jersey.
  • Read Superman comics on chicken coop roofs
  • Saw President Kennedy live at Independence Hall, July 4, 1962
  • Lusted 30 years for San Francisco before arriving in 1997
  • Shares a birthday will Bill Moyers and Pancho Villa
  • Watched Alan Shepard launched as the first American in space May 5, 1961
  • Robert Kennedy died on Joe's 18th birthday
  • Conscientious objector during Vietnam
  • "JoJo left his home in Tucson, Arizona, bought some California grass," i.e. moved to the San Francisco Bay Area May 1, 1997
  • Addicted to jazz
  • Quote: "You had 12 children in 14 years? I like my cigar, too, but I take it out once in a while." —Groucho Marx
  • Writing another novel or three
  • Desperately hopes we're still evolving
  • Votes regularly
  • Misses Kurt Vonnegut. So it goes.


Contact Goldscribe

 
They call him goldscribe

If you have forged a spuiritual connection with the book, if you are truly pissed off, or if you want to write the author just for the halibut, drop an e-mail to Joe Gold via joe@goldscribe.com, go hang out at goldscribe.com and peruse the portfolio.

So, for what you're waiting?


Buy, buy, buy

On the planet Dizurmel, purchasing four copies of The Lamp Post Motel is considered a critical indicator of an enlightened spirit. On other worlds, it displays sympathy for ink-stained/toner-addicted wretches who want to be a paperback writer.

The Lamp Post Motel makes a marvelous gift for anyone you want to offend.

Independent bookstore folk, order a few to tempt your customers with a little thoughtful vulgarity. Or if you're so inclined, set up a display table with 72 copies of The Lamp Post Motel. Feel free to show off your exquisite taste by ordering dozens of copies from Small Press Distribution (spdbooks.org) and help this nonprofit support authors and publishers with a little less clout.

 

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