Welcome to Notable, dispatches from a frontline creative

Monthly, but the schedule will be flexible. Naturally.

Hi.

You may have already been getting this newsletter through Mailchimp, but I’m experimenting. I want this experience to be meaningful for you, potential readers, and to me. To that end, I’ve thought about the kind of content I like to get, and how I could possibly keep up with regular communications. Then, eureka! The question I’m most often asked is where I get my ideas. And that’s what this newsletter will be, a compendium of stuff that inspires me.

As ever, I care about storytelling, yours and mine. To that end, I’ll be sharing everything from craft tips to humor to reviews of stories (in print, on stage, or through film). Surely there will be the occasional [BRIEF] commentary. ‘Cause if there’s one thing I don’t like, it’s being told what to think. I’ll point you to things I’ve found, and you can make of it what you will.

Now tell your friends!

About me.

We have probably interacted directly, either at a fiction-writing workshop like Bread Loaf, or you heard me read from my first memoir, Hello American Lady Creature: What I Learned as a Woman in Qatar, or maybe you saw my new film, My Dinner with Steve.