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Let's get our smudgy fingers all over every last thing!
Warning! Intemperate rant ahead--level RedI love Kickstarter, the whole idea of the thing. I love that it's so successful. It warms my heart that folks will just up and invest a little money in a...
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Step up for Rhinos
It's time again for Bowling for Rhinos and the American Association of Zoo Keepers has come out with a video that is--trust me--adorable. Yes, adorable rhinos. Take a look and haul out your credit...
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Now it's even easier
This just in: Bowling for Rhinos got itself a "donate now" button through Crowdrise. Easy-peasy!Click HERE to deliver one in the eye to those ruthless poachers you keep reading about. The money goes to...
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Night Kill for 99 Cents
Just found out today that you can download the e-book version of Night Kill, the first Iris Oakley zoo-dunnit, for a mere 99 cents until the end of the month. Click HERE and go for it.What's Night...
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Sacramento LCC, here I come!
I've packed up my book marks and animal earrings and auction items and I'm ready for Left Coast Crime. Here's a few pictures from last week's trip to Oakland Zoo in lieu of a blog.A happy Aldabra...
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Left Coast Crime
Well lookit thet! I'm on video HERE.This is from Left Coast Crime mystery conference, held in Sacramento this March. Lorie Ham of Kings River Life stalked the halls, interviewing mystery authors....
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Ashland, Oregon Mystery Author Series
Here's a size-large THANK YOU to Maureen Flanagan, Ed Battistella, Michael Niemann, and Carl Hilton for a blow-out weekend in Ashland, Oregon.Ashland is a smallish town in a remote corner of a small...
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Judging the American Cuddle Dog: Clarifications
Dear Readers of This Blog: The following came to my attention recently and should be of interest to many of you. A. Littlewood Dear ACD Judges,The ACD board is hearing way too many complaints about...
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Littlewood 1: Facebook 0
I went mano a mano with Facebook and won, sort of. Here's the link to my new Author Page HERE.Take a look. Leave a comment letting me know what you think. Click the "Like" button please, so I don't...
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Endangered Flies Free!
Yes, Endangered is now Officially Released. I am thrilled, exhausted, slightly delirious.I've been neglecting this blog in favor of guest blogs. Here's one that went up today, Jenny Milchman's "Made It...
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Free is a very good price!
Faithful reader,Here is your chance at a reward. Hie thee to Goodreads (a fine site for sharing information about books you've read) and enter the drawing to win a free copy--hard cover no less, signed...
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"Passionate Plotting"
The Book Case, which is the blog for The Book Page (a huge book review site), kindly hosted a guest blog I wrote about incorporating issues important to me in my book plots.Click HERE for the full...
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Saturation posting
I'm am all over the interwebs! Here's a list of recent guest blogs where you can learn my Innermost Secrets and Deep Thoughts. To the extent I have any of either.Book Pleasures An interview that got...
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North to Alaska... well, not really
I am off to Seattle at dawn-thirty tomorrow!I'll see Woodland Park Zoo and friends, maybe test my event slide show on the real experts.Saturday: Seattle Mystery Bookshop at noon. Third Place Books at...
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Seattle: Pictures from Woodland Park Zoo
I was in Seattle last weekend. Spent Friday at the zoo having a wonderful time, then spoke with Pattie Beaven's zoo book club. I "appeared" at Seattle Mystery Bookshop on Saturday (here's the blog I...
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Off to California
I'm heading for the Golden State soon for a book tour, taking my dog and pony. Well, my slide show, anyway. The dog didn't want to come and I couldn't find a trained pony. I'll be moving fast--catch me...
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NW Authors' Fair this Saturday
I'm off to Lincoln City for Bob's Beach Books big annual book fair. CLICK HERE for details. I'll be signing under the tent on Highway 101 from 11 to 2 on Saturday. This coming Saturday, that is.Hope to...
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Book review: Skulls by Simon Winchester
Most people who like natural history and the outdoor world are, in my experience, entranced by skulls. We find them beautiful (assuming the stinky parts are long gone) and they tell tales about the...
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Deep Thoughts: My monthly Poisoned Pen blog
Here you go. Click and enjoy. Leave a comment, even!
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Book review: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver trained as a biologist, she's passionate about environmental issues, and she sure can craft a sentence. Flight Behavior (2012, HarperCollins) is as compelling as it is informative....
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Littlewoods at the Climate March
The Berlin Wall came down. The USSR broke up. We elected an African-Amercan president. Wyoming wolves are (maybe) back on the federal endangered species list and safe(r) from state management by...
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The Real Workby Wendell BerryIt may be that when we no longer know what to dowe have come to our real work,and that when we no longer know which way to gowe have come to our real journey.The mind that...
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The Owl on the Road to Medford
After three mystery novels with a mainstream mystery publisher--Poisoned Pen Press--I have embarked on a different fiction journey. I wrote a short story, it won a contest, and my muse said, "Let's do...
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The Solar System Revealed
Watching the top of Mt. Saint Helens disappear in 1980 made geology abruptly real and relevant and not the least theoretical or gradual. Blam! Yup, that's geology. Watching this eclipse did the same...
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