Quoth Og Mandino

"The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

A buck for your best sentence!

So I have been trying to come up with some kind of unique spin on sponsoring the writers of the Clarion West Writeathon. I’ve been sponsoring individual writers here and there, but that just feels scattershot. I want to sponsor everyone who is participating, because everyone is awesome. But I also want to [...]

Goodreads winners (totally not rigged!)

OK, this is so weird. I just got the list of winners for this weekends Goodreads Giveaway of THE HIDDEN GODDESS, and out of over 800 entrants, two of them are IRL friends (the delightful Wilson Fowlie and the exceptional Eugene Myers.) And the weirdest thing is that it was because Wilson Fowlie (a [...]

THE HIDDEN GODDESS giveaway *UPDATED* to include Canada

Just a quick note to remind everyone about THE HIDDEN GODDESS giveaway that’s going on at Goodreads this weekend … I’ve just updated it to include Canada. I thought when I originally set up the giveaway I selected US and Canada, but I guess technology betrayed me again. Anyway, now it’s been updated. So [...]

THE HIDDEN GODDESS giveaway

So I got an excited call from my daughter yesterday, informing me that my big box of author’s copies of THE HIDDEN GODDESS had arrived. And they are utterly gor-gee-ous! I really love the cover on this one—the colors, everything. I hope it starts a new fashion on book covers for napes. Napes are [...]

Come to my Powell’s Books reading!

Just a reminder to mark your calendars: One week from today, on September 16th, at 7 p.m., I will be reading from THE NATIVE STAR at Powell’s Books in Beaverton. There will also be a 19th century trivia contest with prizes! I won’t say what the prizes are precisely, but I can promise you [...]