April 1st is the deadline to apply for this two week writing seminar in Germany this summer where I have the honor of teaching with a stellar faculty from around the world.
If you are a student you can receive college credit, too. It’s the only English creative writing program in Germany, and it’s right on the border of France and Switzerland.
Would you like to write and study literature at one of Europe’s oldest universities?
How about doing all this in a lively, picturesque German town in the enchanted Black Forest?
Come to Freiburg this summer to be inspired — learn poetry, fiction and nonfiction in a provocative, intimate setting with some of the finest writers writing in English.
Attend the Black Forest Writing Seminars July 23 – August 6, 2013.

http://www.blackforestwritingseminars.de/

My second to last event as a Portland author [sad face]. All you folks out in Hillsboro and thereabouts come on out to the Bards & Brews event this evening. Readings, author chats, and a full wine and food menu at Primrose and Tumbleweeds.

7:00 -9:00 pm tonight
Primrose & Tumbleweeds
248 E Main St
In historic old town Hillsboro

Friday, January 25th, 7-9 pm.

Primrose & Tumbleweeds

248 E Main street

Historic Old Town Hillsboro

An evening of reading, conversation, and laughter with authors Jack Driscoll and Deborah Reed.
Please join mentor and former student as they read and discuss their work, friendship, and the music they can’t stop listening to.
January 5th, 7pm.
Beach Books
37 N Edgewood Street
Seaside, Oregon

To be released in January, 2013.

And some of the kindest words I’ll ever hear…

Sharon Harrigan interviews me for Silk Road Review.

Monday, October 1, at 8 am Pacific time I will be a guest on the “Susan Rich Talks” internet radio program for the entire hour(!). The whole station is billed as women for women. Every show works toward networking, enriching, and informing the lives of women, and Susan’s show on Monday mornings is always about writing. Please tune in. Or better yet, call in and join the conversation. I’ll be giving away books, too.

Hey local PDX Loverlies! Tomorrow, Saturday, September 22nd, I’ll be signing books at 2pm at Murder by the Book on Hawthorne. Come on out and get one, and if not mine then one by another writer, and if not one of those, then at least enjoy the snacks and wine and conversation so that you’ll be sure to come back and support this great gem of a bookstore that houses all the stories that make you sweat, scream, and pee your pants.

Murder by the Book

September 18th, 7:00 pm Beach Books

The new novel, Fortune’s Deadly Descent, is set in Provence, so please join me in celebrating the reading and release with champagne, French hors d’oeuvres, including radishes with butter and bread, Beef Bourguignon, onion and fennel mini tarts, and apple and pear galettes.

Beach Books in Seaside, Oregon is a lovely bookstore, owned by the big-hearted Karen Malmsten Emmerling, and is located just a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean. Come show her some love. The weather is going to be splendid. Hope to see you there.