Obama won! (Did you hear? I know you count on me to keep you apprised of such things. This blog is nothing if not timely.) And all the things I wanted to happen in the local elections happened! I’m so…

Please, may Obama win. (He will. He HAS to.) Please, may a certain faction in power in the Republican party not steal the election (or at least not succeed, if they try). GAH. Hold me. Or tell me a joke.…

I just read this in the Los Angeles Review of Books, and got hit so hard by my next novel. Or maybe novella. I think certainly a novella. It wants to be swift and lean. I’m fascinated by (and quite…

Our public schools are in sorry shape, and you know it. With the ballot you got in the mail last week, we can start to do something about that. All of Oregon: please, please vote YES on State Measure 85…

I went to Wordstock today, got to hear some great readings, sit in on a panel on marketing (the takeaway–no one really knows what works or doesn’t or why), and ogle lots of great books. One of the highlights of…

Some switch flipped in my brain today. Some alarm went off, screaming, “Winter’s coming! Winter’s coming!” It’s the same alarm that drove me to knit endlessly while pregnant with both kids, only then the alarm screamed, “Cold baby! Cold baby!”…

I finished the novel revision and sent it to my editor and she is pleased. That’s what we’re going for at this stage–a pleased editor. Now we move on to the line edits stage, the fine tuning. Revolution is almost…

I’ve got a story in the September issue of PANK, which just went live today. PANK is a fantastic publication I’ve wanted to get into for quite a while. I’m so excited to be part of this issue. You can…