
2023: A Big Year
2023 is a year of Big Anniversaries—those ending in 0 or 5—marking significant life events for me and Kelley. Here are a round dozen of them.
Read more2023 is a year of Big Anniversaries—those ending in 0 or 5—marking significant life events for me and Kelley. Here are a round dozen of them.
Read more2023 is off to a shining start with felines, fish, feathers, flying frozen treats and fine Fran’s chocolates.
Read moreFor the second year in a row the number of people visiting my blog increased—though not by much. Here are the Top 10 new posts and the Top 15 overall. Plus an explanation of why blogging beats newsletters.
Read moreI’m teaming up again with Phinney Books, on Greenwood Avenue, Seattle, to bring you signed, personalised books for the holidays.
And, this year only, you can BUY A COPY OF MY SIGNED, NUMBERED MEMOIR-IN-A-BOX.
I can’t wait for you to read it!
Read moreWant to read my short autobiographical essays like “No-Pants Griffith,” “Whole Psychopath” and “Limb of Satan”? All true stories!
You’ll need a copy of AND NOW WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A PARTY: LINER NOTES TO A WRITER’S EARLY LIFE
Read moreMENEWOOD—out October 2023—is an epic tale of seventh-century Britain: war and devastation, victory and peace, love and loss, grief and change, power and responsibility and joy and lust and friendship and belonging and change. But above all, it’s about Hild in the wild places of the world, becoming herself.
Read moreLive! In person! Saturday Nov 19th 2-4 pm at the Phinney Center. Come meet me and 27 other friendly local authors.
Read moreIt’s been a very hard summer—though it hasn’t all been bad. Here’s my update and explanation.
Read moreEvery summer we plant a bunch of annuals alongside our surviving perennials in containers on our kitchen and back decks, where I…
Read moreIt’s my birthday. I’m crap at selfies but here’s one of me looking a cross between bored and homicidal, plus a Zoom screencap taken this morning.
Read moreHere’s how I imagine Hild looks in Butcherbird mode, along with the shield her men carry as a threat and a warning.
Read moreOver on my research blog, a long chewy post about how I researched one of Hild’s first bynames, hægtes. And then how…
Read moreThirty-four years ago today I met Kelley. So far they’ve been the best years of my life. My hope is that they…
Read moreThere are now two serious prizes for disability literature, and the pace of change is accelerating.
Read moreBack from the Orcas Island LitFest to find two new podcast interviews and a wonderful long review, an examination of why SPEAR is an act of resistance, a “heady and healing draught.”
Read moreHow can you make a realistic novel set in the past feel like magic—and a book stuffed with magic and myth feel realistic? And why can that be a problem for historical fiction writers?
Funny you should ask: I just wrote a whole essay about that for Historia Magazine. Go take a look. Oh, and there’s a clue in the image description…
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