When I put out the call for submissions for City of Weird , there were a few authors I gave nudges to in hopes that they'd submit. ...

Yes, I practice for readings. It seems like most writers just show up with their book or their pages and start to read, but if I did that......

Right now, Powell's has a little attraction going on where you can have your picture taken superimposed in front of our entrance and wit...

I keep forgetting to post my own spotlight from The Pacific Northwest Reader . What kind of failure of a furious self-promotor am I? Figu...

You know it's going to be a good story if it has a good opening. Well... actually, that may not always be true. Why do we say things ...

I love the fact that both books with my work in them, that I've had the privilege of creating a window display for, have been visually b...

Do you remember getting your first library card? I don't remember this at all. I do remember the wonder of a place with that many boo...

I'm just a day away from putting up my window display at Powell's for The Pacific Northwest Reader . Today I've been doing som...

One of the reasons I like that all the authors of The Pacific Northwest Reader are also either librarians or booksellers is that I believe ...

Today's Pacific Northwest Reader spotlight is in honor of April Nabholz who will be giving a reading this Sunday at Grass Roots Books a...

Since I'm still feeling all nostalgic for family following my night of home movies, I think my next Pacific Northwest Reader spotlight ...

I guess I can no longer call these countdowns since the book has come in. I think I'll call them spotlights. Complete with an updated g...

Back to work after a week of calling in sick or going in for just a couple hours, I tromp down to the Gold Room by the incoming bay to grab ...

Ladies and Gentlemen... Meet Dinah! She's the star of a lovely essay in the forthcoming Pacific Northwest Reader , and when you rea...

Of course, how can there be an anthology of essays about the Pacific Northwest without mention of the big dude of these here parts... He...

Writing my essay about Oregon for The Pacific Northwest Reader , I felt I got to know my home more intimately—or perhaps got to recognize j...

[i suppose for it to be an actual countdown it needs to do two things: 1. count down to an actual, set date 2. count down but i'm ...

As we head toward the release date of The Pacific Northwest Reader , I thought it would be fun to post a quick taste of some of the essays ...

Prepare to be a tiny bit bombarded by "stuff" about the Pacific Northwest Reader . The book is due to come out the end of this mo...

Thinking, today, of what I would have written, had I put together an essay for The Great Lakes Reader - one of a series that sprang from th...