Apology and tour update

My web guru is trying to consolidate two lists of blog subscribers. The effort seems to be generating random re-sends of earlier blogs. Sorry about that. We’ll get the issue sorted out soon. The Epitaph tour is half-completed. I’m now home for a week....

New book, new look, new content!

March 3 is the official publication date for Epitaph and that was an excuse to reorganize and redesign this website. I wanted something simplified, clean-looking, and easy to navigate. My web designer, Etsuko Dunham, delivered the organization; her artist, Jessica...

Wow. Just…wow.

My redesigned website will be launching in a week or two, but I couldn’t wait to share this review of Epitaph with you — and with everyone else in the world I can think of, frankly. I have been FLYING since I read it this morning. Publishing a novel is a...

Small Business Saturday: November 29th

Instead of fighting the crowds on Black Friday, consider ordering signed books from your local independent bookseller. IndieBound.org has a list of authors signing books at stores around the country on Small Business Saturday. I won’t be in a store on Saturday,...

Falling From Horses by Molly Gloss

  Reviewed for the Washington Post by Mary Doria Russell “No animals were harmed in the making of this film.” If you see that disclaimer at the end of a movie, you know it was made after 1980. That’s when the Screen Actors Guild finally negotiated a...