| Weekly
Quotation
May 19 - 26, 2019 |
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May is National
Mental Health Awareness Month
XX“There
are few experiences as depressing as that
anxious barren state known as writer’s
block, where you sit staring at your blank
page like a cadaver, feeling your mind
congeal, feeling your talent run down
your leg and into your sock. Or you look
at the notes you’ve scribbled recently
on yellow legal pads or index cards, and
they look like something Richard Speck
jotted down the other night. And at the
same time, as it turns out, you happen
to know that your closest writing friend
is on a roll, has been turning out stories
and screenplays and children’s books,
and even most of a novel like he or she
is some crazy pot-holder factory, pot
holders pouring out the windows because
there is simply not enough room inside
for such glorious productivity.”
~Anne Lamott, from
Bird by Bird:
Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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What's
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Upcoming Portland Event March 31st! |
Please Tell Your Friends
and Join Us!
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3/4/19 |
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Time's Rainbow is now Available! |
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long last, Time's Rainbow:
Writing Ourselves Back Into American
History is ready and waiting
for readers. A great group of writers
have delivered brilliant stories. You
can get it here:
Bella
Books
Amazon
Barnes
& Noble
Kobo
(eBook Only) |
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9/1/17 |
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New Review of GUN SHY |
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after all these years, someone periodically reviews
my novel, Gun Shy. The latest generous
soul is the incomparable Ruth Hohnke writing at
DIVA. CLICK
HERE to read what she has to say! |
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3/20/17 |
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Books and Women and Valentines! |
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Come
to Tabor Space in Portland on Saturday night,
February 11 at 7PM, to hang out with seven dwarves
- I mean, seven terrific writers! <g>
We'll have chocolate and books and readings
and discussion and lots of fun! Please join
us! |
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1/22/17 |
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Check out this Interview! |
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Jessie Chandler and I had some things to say
when we were recently interviewed by Shawn Marie
Bryan
CLICK
HERE to listen! |
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11/28/16 |
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Isn't this the Truth? |
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This has been a long hard lesson to learn
- but after a few decades on earth, I think
most people tumble to this conclusion. I certainly
have.
I don't always even understand my own life,
but it's good to live it my way.
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10/24/16 |
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New Cover for Upcoming Gun Book |
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so pleased to unveil the cover for the
newest book in the Gun Series - #5!
It'll be
a few months before the book is complete,
but I'm working on it as fast as I can.
Meanwhile,
Gun Shy, Under The Gun, Have Gun We'll
Travel, and Jump The Gun
all have new covers as well! Check them
out in the panel to the right. |
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9/11/16 |
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There's GOLDIES in them thar hills! |
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We won! We won! Just found out
tonight!
Jessie's and my edited anthology, Lesbians
on the Loose: Crime Writers on the Lam won
a GCLS Goldie Award. YAY! How cool is that?!
CLICK
HERE to see all winners! |
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7/9/16 |
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Praise for LESBIANS ON THE LOOSE |
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The crime fiction anthology Jessie Chandler
and I edited was a finalist at the Rainbow Awards.
Yeehaw!
One of the judges wrote:
"I can’t say I’ve
ever read an anthology where every story was
a complete hit with me, but this one was so
consistently good that I genuinely enjoyed every
story in it. The variety is entertaining, the
brevity a challenge the authors rose to, and
the theme has interpretations both lighthearted
and serious that worked equally well. One of
the better anthos I’ve read."
High praise that we all appreciate!
CLICK
HERE
to see more.
Buy
Links
Bella
Amazon
B&N
Kobo |
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12/21/15 |
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My GCLS Keynote Speech is Available |
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My Keynote Video
is available now.
CLICK
HERE to view and listen.
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1/24/15 |
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Gun Series Review at the ALA |
American Library Assoc. reviewer
Sue Hardesty included my Gun books in a round-up
of "Ten Mystery Romance Series with Lesbian
Sleuths." I know some of the other authors
as well, such as Lynn Ames, Jessie Chandler,
Elizabeth Sims, Erica Abbot, Rose Beecham,
and RE Bradshaw.
CLICK
HERE to check it out!
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12/12/14 |
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EIGHT DATES won! |
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Eight Dates won
in the Romantic Comedy category at The Rainbow
Awards. I am so delighted I can hardly speak!
Thanks to Elisa Rolle and all the judges who
read almost 600 books for the entire contest.
The Runners-Up are:
Out Of Retirement
by Erica Lawson
That Certain Something
by Clare Ashton
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CLICK
HERE
to see all the Winners
and Runners-Up
in all categories.
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12/9/14 |
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Why We Writers Write |
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11/8/14 |
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Review for EIGHT DATES |
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Great review for EIGHT DATES at Lambda Literary
- CLICK
HERE to read it. I'm thrilled that that
Anna Furtado, in part, wrote: "Telling
a story in first person while keeping it fresh
and exciting to the reader is a difficult task
for any writer, but Lake accomplishes this undertaking
masterfully—and does it with both style
and wit. There are laugh-out-loud moments in
this story as well as scenes filled with poignancy,
honesty and tenderness. This offering by Lori
Lake is quirky, funny, and refreshingly real."
Hurray for such a nice review! |
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11/2/14 |
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One of my favorite people on the planet
and a great mystery writer, Ellen Hart,
with me at Once Upon a Crime Mystery Bookstore
in Minneapolis |
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8/18/13 |
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I finally got to meet Jean Auel! |
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At the annual Oregon Writers Colony
Founders Day at Rockaway Beach's Colonyhouse,
I served up a cup of coffee to a woman
- and it turned out to be Jean Auel!
Later I facilitated a fiction discussion
group, and Jean joined in and was a
wealth of information and humor. Woweeeee---what
a day!
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08/06/13 |
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Lee Lynch talks with me in THE ADVOCATE
on "Lesbian Mystery, Police Raids,
and Fairy Godmothers" |
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I had the great honor of doing an Advocate
conversation with award-winning GCLS
Trailblazer Lee Lynch.
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CLICK
HERE to check it out!
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For
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Anthology!
Time's
Rainbow: Writing Ourselves Back Into American History
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Sparking
Creativity
Excerpt
Coming
Soon!
Pub Date:
2018 |
Pub Date:
May 31, 2017
TIME'S RAINBOW
Available
Now! |
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Lesbians
on the
Loose
Available
Now! |
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Jump
The Gun
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| Movie
Trailers
for the Books |
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Brenda Adcock's wizardry, there are now movie trailers,
complete with music, for two of my books. Click below
to see - make sure you turn on your speakers, too. |
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Shimmer
& Other Stories |
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Snow
Moon Rising |
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| Bound/Printed
Books |
| My novels and short story collections
can be purchased through any bookseller or online. If
a store doesn't happen to have copies on hand, they will
order them for you. CLICK
HERE if you want to contact me to get autographed
copies. |
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| E-Books
at
Bella Distribution |
| The gals at Bella carry books by an
enormous variety of authors, and they're distributing
my eBooks and print books. CLICK
HERE to get the books in Mobi and ePub formats.
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| Kobo
E-Books |
| Kobo Ebooks also carries LGBT books
by a variety of authors. CLICK
HERE to get my books for the Kobo eReader. |
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| Kindle
E-Books |
| Amazon.com carries my books in the
Kindle E-Book format. CLICK
HERE to purchase novels and short story
collections for your Kindle eReader. |
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| B&N
E-Books |
| Barnes & Noble - BN.com - carries
my books in their Nook E-Book format. CLICK
HERE to purchase novels and short story
collections for your Nook eReader. |
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the image below to Friend me on Facebook! |
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| Recent
Interviews |
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| A.J. Llewellyn at Dark Diva's Blog did an extensive
interview with me. CLICK
HERE to find out all my deep dark secrets.
The interview shows up on the March 4 entry. |
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| VIDEO
INTERVIEW
- With Jody Seay, the amazing interviewer at
Oregon PBS's "Back Page" program,
who sat down and talked to me for her weekly
TV program with Pacific NW writers |
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HERE - for the interview with author
Jae who has written so many wonderful novels |
| CLICK
HERE to read an interesting discussion
in the "Spotlight Interview" section
that the gals at Ylva have been doing |
| Earl Kemp's online 'zine, eI,
has featured a memoir piece I wrote called "There
is No Reason Not To Trust that the Act of Writing
Will Be Enough."
CLICK
HERE if you'd like to read it. |
| MYSTERICAL-E
featured a long interview with me about
writing, creativity, book themes, etc. There
are several great stories featured in this issue
as well as other podcasts and interviews by
a variety of terrific authors. |
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