A Children’s Place Author Event

In case you didn’t know, I’m a giant. Don’t believe me? Check out how tall I am compared to these other very talented writers and artists! (Y’know, the shrimps?) Oh, and this is at Portland’s coolest bookstore, A Children’s Place. The event was a celebration of the new book, Oregon Reads Aloud – A Collection of […]

HomeWord Bound

The Community Partners for Affordable Housing invited me to its fundraiser. Everyone was super-nice, like these people! But I can’t remember what I was saying here. Maybe something like: “So I said, ‘What do you MEAN this isn’t spaghetti?’”

Wild Arts Festival

There are outrageous rumors that I wrote a novel about a birdwatcher (you know, The Drake Equation) just so I’d have a great book at the Audubon Society’s Wild Arts Festival. And I just want to say that those rumors are actually TRUE!

Wordstock 2016

I talked about reading, writing, and my new novel, The Drake Equation, at Portland’s book festival, Wordstock. The photos show me on a panel with awesome author Kate Ristau and coolio moderator Diana Armstrong.