I’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 moreA gorgeous new headshot of the gorgeous Kelley Eskridge
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.
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Live! 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 moreA very happy birthday to the queen of my world.
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Over on my research blog, a long chewy post about how I researched one of Hild’s first bynames, hægtes. And then how…
Read moreChange: are you camp Zen, Thunderbirds, or Sopranos?
Read moreSpear is for sale at 50% off at both Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
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.
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Back 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.”
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Spear updates: NYTBR review, Beyond the Trope podcast, promises for the future…
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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Here are my new conditions for anyone wanting me to blurb their book.
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We have one grand winner and one runner-up who guessed the top two most-used adjectives in early reviews of SPEAR…
Read moreThe final clue in the guess-the-review-adjective for SPEAR competition, this time from a blurb by
Maria Dahvana Headley
Get your best guess in before noon Pacific time tomorrow. Rules, prizes, and how to enter:
Read moreClue #15 in the guess-the-review-adjective competition for SPEAR prizes, this time a quote from a review in Chicago Review of Books by Jake Casella Brookins. No purchase necessary! Open to anyone in the world!
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Read moreClue #14 in the guess-the-review-adjective competition for SPEAR prizes, this time a quote from a starred review in Shelf Awareness. No purchase necessary! Open to anyone in the world!
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Friday 4/29, 6:00 PM: at Redmond’s own Brick & Mortar, live and in-person! Talking about SPEAR, history, representation, and writing joy. Come help celebrate Independent Bookstore Weekend!
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Thurs 4/28, 7:00 PM PT: Mysterious Galaxy! In conversation with the beauteous, smart, and always fascinating @kelleyeskridge, novelist, short story writer and screenwriter extraordinaire. We’ll be talking about SPEAR, of course, but also many other delicious things. Do join us!
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