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. You’d think it would be less nerve-wracking to present an award than to be in [...]
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Actually, chicks dig comics every day, which is kind of the point. But tomorrow, Friday 4/20, if you come to Bridge City Comics between 6 and 9 pm, you will see: Jen Van Meter Erica McGillivray Rachel Edidin and also me, celebrating the release of Chicks Dig Comics! * I am compelled to tell you [...]
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 and affordable paperback edition! For Portlanders: Remember how I have an essay, “Nineteen Panels About [...]
I am in some very swell company in this anthology, which you can preorder the heck out of. My contribution is “Nineteen Panels About Me And Comics.” I can’t wait to read the rest of the book!
Right now, you can read Orienteering, written by me, with art by Erika Moen, on this very Internet. Okay so technically that doesn’t count as me literally being somewhere, but. Go read. It is a short comic, but things happen in it. At 6 p.m. tonight, I’ll be at the Cedar Hills location of Powell’s [...]
On Saturday, when #yasaves began to happen in response to the latest installment in the apparently endless series of articles decrying YA literature for being Too Dark, I was, appropriately enough, taking part in a YA-centric book event at Klindts. This amazing independent bookseller filled their store with twelve YA authors. They enlisted numerous zealously [...]
Hey, thanks to all who attended my YA Trends and Audience workshop this morning at the Ooligan Press Write to Publish conference, and to the conference folks who were super helpful with the usual tech troubleshooting hassles. Special shoutouts to fellow YA author Emily Whitman and to brand new local YA publisher RainTown Press! As [...]
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 pm at Square Deal Wine and Cheese. If you suspect that the name of the [...]
Hey hi! Short post, lots of exclamation points! The new What A Girl Wants post is up! (And I am blushing because Colleen says very kind things about my work in the introduction.) We wrote about the books we wished we’d read when we were sixteen. Portlanders! On Saturday, 5/22 I’ll be giving a talk [...]
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 novel UNDERGROUND, a crackerjack entrant in the crowded category of spelunking thrillers. On Friday, I’m [...]
