Tradeoffs

For the first time since 2007, I took no part in the Stumptown Comics Fest, except by hanging out both evenings with folks who’d spent their days there. It was still an eventful week. Monday was the Oregon Book Awards. … Keep reading

Upcoming. Incoming. Etc.

Things. They are HAPPENING. Three are Portlandcentric, one is not. NonPDXcentric: Remember how I have a story, “Fair Trade,” with art by the fabulous and now Eisner Award-nominated Dylan Meconis in Welcome to Bordertown? Now you can acquire a fetching … Keep reading

3 things.

1. If you missed Mr. Gordon Edgar, author of Cheesemonger, the virtues of which I have previously extolled, when he was recently in Portland, you are in CRAZY LUCK because he will be here again TOMORROW, May 19, at 6:30 … Keep reading

Soon.

Things are happening. You may have noticed, it is almost time for the Stumptown Comics Fest? In mere hours, I’ll be headed over to Things From Another World for the party in celebration of Steve Lieber & Jeff Parker’s graphic … Keep reading

Not one not two not three

FOUR Pacific Northwest YA authors: Emily Whitman, author of Radiant Darkness, MJ Beaufrand, author of The River, Anne Osterlund, author of Academy Seven, and yours truly will converge upon A Children’s Place Bookstore on Saturday, 4/10, at 1 pm. We’ll … Keep reading

Down time

These next few days aren’t the calm before the storm so much as the calm between the storms. (Storms of amazing opportunities, I hasten to add.) This past weekend was the first time that I’ve had a being-an-author gig so … Keep reading