It’s been a whirlwind fall, which is my best pathetic excuse for the lack of posts. Okay, here’s a better one: NaNoWriMo. I’ve ‘won’ NaNo before – completing 50k words in thirty short days with the
A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me “A sense of obligation.”
This fall, my reading list is lush with worlds to which I can fly only via words and it feels so right to visit them while my cellular
What is it about small towns and dark emotions? Having grown up quite happily in a small town, it never ceases to amaze me how places where there are more farm acres than cows accrue so
SATURDAY, October 14, 2017 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Second Saturdays Writing Program at Woodinville Library 17105 Avondale Road NE, Woodinville Author (Pyromantic; Hold Me Closer, Necromancer; Firebug) and bookseller LISH McBRIDE returns to the Second
I can hardly believe everyone is back at school and work and, through the horrible haze of the wildfire smoke-clouded air, I can see the faintest glimmer of that beloved dream: A Fall Routine. I have
Trained for five months to prepare for 166 miles of hilly Irish countryside in County Cork and County Kerry (interspersed with pubs and some awesome gin). Worth every moment in the saddle for the views and
This spring, feeling the repetitive wear of two-decades of freelance work and novel-writing from my kitchen, I went back to “work” — the kind where you drive to an office, wear a corporate ID badge and
SATURDAY, May 13, 2017 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Second Saturdays Writing Program at Woodinville Library 17105 Avondale Road NE, Woodinville To celebrate the conclusion of this year’s Second Saturday Writing Workshops, we invite you to
Given our political climate, perhaps I should not be surprised that the three books at the top of my reading list all explore some aspect of the concept “us and them.” In each of these novels,