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 Native Star” Trailer

Recent Entries

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 [...]

Falling down ded

After having spent yesterday in a storm of rampant and shameless self-promotion, and then subsequently staying out until all hours at the Sapphire Hotel being plied with spicy alcoholic beverages by my sister Rachel, her partner Dante, and a couple of debauched wenches we managed to pick up along the way, I woke up [...]

Summer's here!

Yes, when she’s not parading hungry friends through the house, coming in to my office with up-to-the-minute alerts on the life-and-death urgency attendant upon me enrolling her in breakdancing lessons (“EVERYONE knows how to breakdance, mom! EVERYONE BUT ME!”), or coming up with meticulously hand-drawn, color-coded, shockingly usurious price-tables meant to be applied to [...]

My Wiscon Schedule! (OK not really.)

No, I’m not going to be at Wiscon this year. Basically I’m not doing any cons until my book comes out. All my pennies are being scrupulously hoarded away for my book launch party at WFC in October (I mean, I know you people. You’re going to demand the good snacks and booze. I [...]

Happy Cupcakeathon Day!

Today is the day Lisa Mantchev has dubbed the Great Day of Cupcakerie, in honor of the launch of “Perchance to Dream” which is Book 2 in her lovely and critically-acclaimed “Theater Illuminata” series (I’m not even going to *try* to do the umlauts and accent graves and whatever typographical hoo-ha is supposed to [...]