Great news! My essay "Intruder"made it into the Notable Essays of 2025 in the new American Best Essays collection! Many thanks to Lori Ostlund & Anne Raeff for their invaluable comments along the way! ✨✨✨

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Our last swim of 2025 -- on the most gorgeously long beach in Santa Cruz!

💥Had an amazing time this weekend at Tahoe Literary Festival! I met so many great writers, including my fellow authors at @sibyllinepress.bsky.social: Julia Park Tracey, Kim Culbertson & Karen Nelson! 💖💖

💥People always ask me how I got started as a #writer & what it's been like since. This interview in Bold Journey magazine shares my story--as well as my thoughts on the #creative process.🌀

#writing #story #books #creativity

boldjourney.com/meet-laurie-...

🔥These words from Anton Chekhov ring 1000 times true every time I read them: "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." #writerlife #writer #writing

🔥 It was wonderful to hit the streets last Saturday to protest Trump's cruelty. We saw many signs like this one! ❤️
#writers #NoKings #protest #indivisible

🔥On Sat, 6/14, Babylon Salon proudly presents #authors Kate Folk [Sky Daddy], Paul S Flores [We Still Be], Duane Horton [No Hero Alone], S.G. Browne [Lost Creatures] & Lauren Parker [Spells for Success]! Come out to The SycamoreSF for drinks at 5pm! Reading, 5:30. Free! Deets: www.babylonsalon.com 💜

It was great to be part of the Page St. Writers' event at Sebastopol's Lit Crawl on Sat 5/17! I read about my family's roots in Healdsburg, CA - a first for me!

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🌿Please join us this Sat 5/17 @ LitCamp's #reading at Sebastopol's #Litcrawl when 15 #writers-- including me--share short takes on a having a super bad attitude! 5pm, 186 N. Main Street. FREE. It'd be great to see you! 💜

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Happiness abounds! Wishing a wonderful launch to @loriostlund.bsky.social whose new story collection ARE YOU HAPPY? will astound & delight you! I highly recommend this book! loriostlund.com

🌠VeRRy VERRRY happy to say I just signed w/Sibylline Press, who'll publish my historical #novel LIGHT AND ASH--which takes place during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake--in Spring, 2027. Many thanks to Vicki DeArmon & @juliaparktracey.bsky.social, who, among others, made this happen! 💜📖 💚

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💥I've been demonstrating since my 20s & I'm not about to stop now! So heartening to see that tens of thousands of protesters hit in the streets Saturday! Here's what we looked like in Berkeley, CA! 💜

🌠 I had a wonderful time #reading at Lit Nights on Friday! My fellow #authors were awesome, as was the Prosecco! ⭐

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💖 Friends! I'm excited to be offering "Great Writers Steal: How the Work of Master Writers Can Inform & Inspire You" starting Th, 4/10 online @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social! We’ll study the stories of Baldwin & others to get insights for yr own work. Details:

www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...

I'm excited to be sharing some of my forthcoming novel LIGHT AND ASH at "Lit Nights" on Fri 3/28 @ 6:30pm @Page Street in SF! The amazing Janis Cooke Newman will be MCing! 💖 Free & open to the public! Pls join us! www.litcampwriters.org/our-events
#books #writers #reading

An eerily gorgeous photo taken near the Strait of Magellan by my brother Tom🍃

What could be more beautiful than Lake Tahoe in winter?
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On Sat, Mar 1, we at Babylon Salon are thrilled to present these 5 amazing authors:
⭐ Jon Hickey
⭐ Mercilee Jenkins
⭐ sam sax
⭐ Nina Schuyler
⭐ Emily Jon Tobias
Come out to The Sycamore for drinks at 5 in the back covered patio! Reading starts at 5:30. As always, admission is free! ❤️