This came up in my Facebook feed recently. You know, that feature, you have memories to look back on? It seemed particularly relevant to today’s headlines about the Jan. 6 attempted coup.

Because before Jan. 6, there was Portland.

Isabelle Allende has famously said, “write the stories that must not be forgotten.” And as horror upon horror is revealed on our nightly news, it is easy to forget that what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 did not happen in a vacuum or came out of nowhere. It had been playing out in Portland for years.

I’ve told stories so that they wouldn’t be forgotten — as a journalist, as an academic and now as a novelist. And all those methods contribute to our understanding of the world around us. But of all the stories I’ve told, I think the suspense novels of Newsroom PDX might be the ones I prize the most.
You can start the story with Choose, book 1, for $.99 or jump in with the first omnibus that includes the first three books.

And it’s a story that’s not finished. Before Jan. 6 was Portland, a recent Oregon Public Broadcast headline read. But Portland still is targeted, still struggles. And so the story continues.

Newsroom PDX: “Dystopian fiction from today’s headlines.”

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