Memoir Magazine Book Prize!
So excited to share that By the Forces of Gravity has been recognized by Memoir Magazine with a 2022 Book Prize for Innovative Storytelling! To celebrate By the Forces of Gravity winning a Memoir Magazine book prize, my publisher, Books by Hippocampus, is offering a 15% off coupon through...
Match-Making: Doodling for Writers
Doodling for Writers released in October and the splendor of this fact has been quiet. Promoting a book while the pandemic is mounting a terrible resurgence feels so trivial, so I really haven’t done much to even celebrate its birth—no release party, no book tour or signings. As an...
Doodling for Writers Out October 6!
I haven’t posted here since the Before Times. Life is still mired in fear and chaos and the daily efforts to carry on during the Pandemic, but I have some most excellent news to share. Doodling for Writers is available for preorders and will be out next month! I...
Doodling for Writers Coming Soon!
Super excited to share that Books by Hippocampus will be publishing my little book on drawing for writers! Here’s a link to the publishers blog post: Books by Hippocampus Blog. It includes this quick video I drew. My mother-in-law gave me a cool set-up for mounting my phone above...
Happy Birthday By the Forces of Gravity!
My cartoon/poetry memoir came out a year ago today! It’s been such an amazing year, for the book, for my own creative life. This spring I’ve been on sabbatical from my professor job at Arizona State University where I’ve been teaching landscape architecture for the past twenty-five years. I’ve...
Three 2018 Essays + Some Awesome 2019 Reads
My sabbatical officially starts tomorrow and I’m trying to prepare by organizing my physical and digital spaces. I try to keep up with my website updates, but I’m organizationally challenged, so in tidying up, I realized I forgot to link three essays that were published in 2018. It’s no...
Reading and Tabling
The reading at Changing Hands Bookstore last week was awesome! I meant to post these pictures right away, but the week just zipped away. This Saturday morning, I’ll be tabling at Meet Your Literary Community at Phoenix Public Market. I’m reading in a big reading marathon (I go on...
Book Turns One (Month) Old!
The flurry leading up to the book launches in Phoenix and Berkeley has subsided. I’ve spent the past month doing interviews, knitting and cleaning up the mess the house had become while I was busy with the By the Forces of Gravity. Not that I do much house work....
Berkeley Book Launch at Maybeck High School!
It was such a wonderful experience to return to my alma mater (class of 1979 and also where I started my teaching career at 19!) to read from my new book, By the Forces of Gravity. A total joy to see so many familiar faces, and meet new ones!...
Prepare to Launch!
It feels magically real that tomorrow boxes of books will arrive in the mail, then on Saturday people will gather at The Hive (yay Wasted Ink Zine Distro and Charissa Lucille for co-hosting with my publisher Books by Hippocampus and the amazing Donna Talarico-Beerman!) to help me celebrate the...