I have always spent most of my time staring out the window. –Joyce Carol Oates

DISSONANCE reissued!

This month, eleven years after it was first released by UNM Press, Dissonance: A Novel is being reissued by Santa Fe Writers Project in paperback and e-versions. You can read an interview with Gillion Dumas, Rose City Reader here. Then, I hope you can join me at one of these venues, where I’ll talk about the seeds for the novel and how it came to be reissued. I’d love to see you!

September 7th          3:00 pm          Bookworks                 Albuquerque

Dissonance launch at my home bookstore

September 13th          2:00 pm          Placitas Community Library          Placitas

While this isn’t about the launch, it’s been scheduled for ages, and is well worth attending if you’re working on memoir, because Lynn C. Miller and I offer a workshop called Find Your Story. The materials fee includes a signed copy of our book Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir. And yes, copies of Dissonance will be available, too.

September 14th        2:00 pm          Garcia Street Books            Santa Fe

Dissonance talk & signing at my other home bookstore

September 16th          Noon               Albuquerque Chapter of Hadassah

In a past life, I was president of this chapter. Today, I’ll return to talk about the seeds of Dissonance.

September 16th          7:00 pm          Southwest Writers   Albuquerque

How did my old book find a new publisher? Tonight, I’ll reveal the answer.

October 7th                 7:00 pm          Bookwoman               Austin

Sister SFWP author Charlotte Gullick hosts a talk about Dissonance on her home turf

October 25th               7:00 pm          SFWP Fall Launch Party     Silver Spring

Andrew’s throwing a party for his fall list at Jackie’s in Silver Spring, and I hear it’s quite the bash. If you’re in the DC area, please join us!

Other Cool Stuff

The Vessel recently published one of my poems.

Delphi Quarterly will publish an interview about Dissonance in its fall issue.

Pay It Forward author Catherine Ryan Hyde will interview me in her October “Better Than Blurbs” blog.

Looking for my books? My first recommendation is always your favorite local indy bookstore. (Mine is Bookworks in Albuquerque.) Other favorites include Under Charlie’s Covers and Home at the Range in Bernalillo, Garcia Street Books and Collected Works in Santa Fe, Maria’s in Durango, Changing Hands in Tempe, Chaucer’s in Santa Barbara, A Clean Well-Lighted Place in Corte Madera and San Francisco, Kepler’s in Menlo Park, Talking Leaves in Buffalo, and Tattered Cover in Denver. You also can order my books directly through my website. If you’re looking for a signed copy, whether for yourself or as a gift, please email me.

A prospective client recently asked how many of my editing/coaching clients have been published. I was stunned to realize the answer is 100%. I’m very proud of my clients—you can find links to their websites on mine. If you’ve written, rewritten, & revised to the point where it’s time for an editor or coach, please email me. I’d love to help you complete the process.

If you’ve read this far, you deserve a writing prompt. So grab a pen or open a new document, and, without further thought, explore the following: Woulda, coulda—we’re so good at what we want to say or what we should have said. For this exercise, imagine either a conversation you’re dreading, or one you’ve already had that you wish had gone differently. Write it the way you wish it would go, or had gone. Ready? Begin.

I love feedback, so please don’t hesitate to email me with comments or suggestions. Happy September!

xo ~L