No contritionOr regret. The mob?Stormed lives?Totally appropriate. Sidestepped questions?Deadly riot?Totally appropriate. Defiance.Assault.Violence. Ransacking.Anger.Violence. His mob.His anger. He should leave.Leave everyone alone. Found poetry from “In first public appearance since the Capitol siege, Trump expresses no contrition for inciting the mob,” The New York Times, January 12, 2020
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“We love the things we love for what they are.” That’s from Robert Frost’s “Hyla Brook.” Variations on the line had been bouncing around in my head for a while before my husband and fellow writer, Larry Hammer, reminded me where it came from. I’d been thinking about Frost (without knowing it was Frost I was
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Oh, right. It’s 2020. Okay, you don’t need me to tell you that. What with the election and the pandemic and the wildfires and a thousand thousand other things, 2020 has seen to it that it won’t be forgotten anytime soon. But February 2020 was also, as this ten-year-old post just reminded me, my writingversary.
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Bones of Faerie, the first book of my Bones of Faerie trilogy, is about uncontrolled growth: plants that bloom in every season, crops that fight their harvesters, trees that seek human blood and bone to root in. Faerie Winter, the second book of the trilogy, tells the opposite story. It’s about endless winter, failure to
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1. I have a piece in the Weekly Humorist this week. “Buy My Book, It Will Protect You from the Coronavirus, Says Author Whose Public Appearances Have All Been Canceled” (For the record, I didn’t have any launches or appearances planned. But a great many authors have, and you should totally buy their books.) 2.
I have a fondness for seeing worlds torn apart. Fictional worlds, that is. I’m not talking about post-apocalyptic fiction, though I enjoy the genre and have even written in it. I’m talking in the broader sense, when a fictional world is built on assumptions that the reader or viewer comes to accept, and then those
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Join me this Saturday, July 13, at the Pima County Public Library’s annual Megamania — a (free!) summer reading event and mini-comicon all rolled into one. Here’s where I’ll be: 2pm: Writing for Children, Middle Grade, and YA with Janni Lee Simner, Adam Rex, and Kathleen Glasgow 3pm: Signing 4pm: How to Beat Writer’s Block with
Hostile Trading I’m not a fool. We want to do business with them. Obliteration like you’ve never seen, I’m not looking to do that. I may, I may, If you’d like me to, I’ll do that. No, no, I have the right to do that. But I haven’t. Poem found in “Trump Shrugs Off Khashoggi
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I’m reading from the new edition of Tiernay West, Professional Adventurer on Arizona Public Media’s Arizona Spotlight tomorrow (Thursday). If you’re in Southern Arizona, tune in to KUAZ at 8:30 a.m. or 6 p.m. to hear me. Or you can listen anytime, from anywhere, by visiting Arizona Spotlight’s website. Tiernay West, Professional Adventurer is available in from Antigone Books and Mostly Books, or you can
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