What was I made for?
“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that [...]
In conversation with Mary Camarillo–THOSE PEOPLE BEHIND US
I first met author Mary Camarillo nine years ago, as we were both whimpering in the corner of the patio [...]
Poster Girl: “5 / 5–An excellent read”
Poster Girl doesn't launch until November but it was so great to see this first review come in from the [...]
Ruby’s Books, Sunday, 4/1
Sunday, April 1, 2023, 11:30-1 Pacific. Please drop by a terrific indie bookstore, Ruby’s Books, in Folsom, California for my [...]
TOMBOY: Strand Magazine’s 25 best mysteries of 2022
The Strand was the very first magazine to publish Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short stories. So I coughed up [...]
Herb Caen: The Sackamenna Kid
I'm thrilled to join Archivist James Scott 12-1:30 December 3 for a discussion about the Sackamenna Kid: Herb Caen. We’ll [...]
Just write
Write it anyway. This week, my artist friend Polly LaPorte (pictured above) delivered a portrait of my Grandpa Bates Jackson. I was [...]
Queen of Mean: Hedda Hopper
Researching the third Jane Benjamin Novel (Flyboy, November 2023) had me reading quite a bit about 1940s gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. [...]
Who gets to tell the story
I first learned about Betty Reid Soskin (above, in a photograph by Frederic Aranda for National Geographic Traveler) while visiting the [...]
Difficult? Horrible? Badass?
Talking about Tomboy with very good friends. For the past three years I've co-directed Stories on Stage Sacramento with author Dorothy [...]