• Squirrel Wizard

    I have knitted a squirrel wizard! This adventerous little guy will be given to a randomly chosen newsletter subscriber Monday, August 30th. If you aren’t subscribed to my newsletter, you can do so here. If you are, well, fair warning, you’re in the drawing for…

  • Summering Along

    Summer came on hot–like 117° (47° C) here, which is staggeringly unheard of in my cloudy corner of Oregon. Of course as soon as it finally dropped into the high 90° I took a wonderful (but also hot: 111°) weekend camping trip to the desert.…

  • Virtual Rainforest

    For the last six years or so, I’ve run off (with great delight) to attend the Rainforest Writers Retreat right on Lake Quinault in the wilds of the Washington rainforest. This year, due to the very nature of lots of people traveling from lots of…

  • 2019 Events (so far)

    Some years I feel like a big ole hermit. It’s partly the nature of being a writer–quite a lot of time needs to be spent alone, working on creating words, worlds, and people who are fun to torture watch grow through adversity. But truth be…

  • Upcoming Events

    Wow. I can’t believe it’s that time of year already: Orycon is this weekend! I’ll be attending the convention Friday-Sunday (if you see me in the hall or after a panel, come up and say hi! I come to these kinds of things to visit…

  • Signing Today

    Just a quick fly-by post. Today Diana Pharaoh Francis and I will be signing books, chatting, and generally hanging out and having fun from 1:00-3:00 at Reader’s Guide in West Salem, Oregon. Hope to see you there!  

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