I hate what the world has become and I hate having to think about all those evil, stupid people who only want death and chaos, but at least Ira Kaplan still does on-air fundraisers for WFMU.

I'll be in NYC next week for the first time in a while! Doing an event with the lovely and talented Roohi Choudhry at Lofty Pigeon in Kensington, Brooklyn. 6:30.

Lost my shit watching the new episode of Bob’s Burgers because BOB FOLLOWS HIS DREAM!

Bookseller observation: If someone is buying a book for their dying friend, it's always a book of Mary Oliver poetry. At least once a week, someone tells me that Mary Oliver purchase is for someone in the hospital.

Epic and Lovely is not getting reviewed. If you feel like doing me a big favor, I'm now in the position of begging for Amazon reviews. If you want to support small press fiction, me personally, oddly-shaped people, or survivors of abuse, please tell someone, or Amazon, about the book.

I'm proud to be a local bestseller alongside my friend @keithrosson.bsky.social! www.wweek.com/arts/books/2...

I'm going to sound like the biggest hater & loser in the world and I know we must do our political performance but the "look at my war ravaged Portland" photos especially from politicians are getting a little 😬 when we have crisis levels of people without housing including unknown numbers of kids

Spokane. It feels like a place you can afford to make art, like Austin 30 years ago. I like this building.

Loved interviewing my brilliant pal @modaviau.bsky.social about her gorgeous new book, Epic and Lovely, for Two Bossy Dames 💕💕💕 open.substack.com/pub/twobossy...

I haven't even seen a demonstration here in months.

Dyna drew a recliner.

"Epic and Lovely is 'alchemizing shit into the most beautiful thing' writ large." @modaviau.bsky.social shared a playlist for her novel Epic and Lovely at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/25/m... @wvupress.bsky.social

My husband contacted Dua Lipa's book club to get them to consider my new novel, and that (among other reasons) is why I love the shit out of that man.

Just here for the Chotiner bits.

Feeling pretty low about the lack of reception to Epic and Lovely, and Susan is not on this planet anymore to talk me through it.

I'm slowly recording a DIY audiobook of Epic and Lovely that probably won't be ready until January or February. FYI.

I guess AI is good for padding one's CV. This was on Reddit. I don't remember writing or publishing a book called COWBOY ADVICE, but what is truth anymore?

Does anyone with a podcast want to have me on their podcast? I would love to be on a podcast that deals with healing after abuse. Epic and Lovely ties in with that.

Oregon for the win.

Today is La fête du génie the 2nd of Sansculottides in the year 233. Sansculottides is the month of complementary days. Today we celebrate talent.#JacobinDay More information on talent

Looks like Ingram has delivered Epic and Lovely to bookstores, finally. Please purchase a copy during the remaining 13 days of September IndieNext displays.

When I was younger, I’d stand in front of this shelf in the fiction section at BookPeople and think, someday, my novel will be here. It’s at the front of the store for the event tonight but still!

All of the copies of Epic and Lovely ordered through Ingram are still sitting in boxes on their loading dock because Ingram PICKS UP THEIR OWN BOOKS from Chicago Distro and they wait until it's a certain weight and THAT IS WHY I am missing most of my IndieNext month in the majority of stores.

I'll also add KEEP THE WORD AMAZON OUT OF YOUR MOUTH all year round but especially in November and December. Don't act like you have NO CHOICE but to order a book from them because we don't have it and then try to get us to offer absolution.

TOMORROW IN AUSTIN! BookPeople, 7pm, with AMY GENTRY!!!!

Against my better judgment, I'm making an offer... I will draw any single-subject illustration you want for $100. Person, animal, OC, whatever. Venmo me a hundo and I'll draw it and send you the file. I reserve the right to say no to any request for any reason. Limited time offer.

I'm in Austin and all I can do is point at street corners and tell my husband what used to be there and then say that condo building is ugly and what the fuck is that piece of shit.

I guess I lied to all of the book club ladies I forced the new Ocean Vuong book upon by saying it was a shoo-in for the NBAs.

Well, Ingram/Chicago have squandered my IndieNext month. So many stores don’t have it yet and won’t until October. I want to cry.

The hardest thing about publishing a book is learning to be okay with the majority of the world not giving a shit about it.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

It's really nice when we have customers come in to buy books off the National Book Awards longlist for translated literature.

If you've dated an abusive person, and you've dreamed of their comeuppance, my new novel is for you: wvupressonline.com/epic-and-lov...

Oregon Vax Watch: I made an appointment at Costco's Portland Proper location for next week. Immediately after, I got a phone call from CVS (where my prescription was sent) saying they wouldn't have it in stock until October. ???

The Oregon vaccine situation is a damn shame.

It looks like legs and a dick but in Hartford Whaler colors.

Today is the last day of City of Portland outdoor pools. It's all adult lane swim all day because the kids are at school.

Sixty-seven people came to my reading.

I’m playing all of Lou Barlow’s loser songs from a 1994 album of home recordings on my way to my own event.

First Epic and Lovely event tonight in Portland at my place of business. Tracy will be asking why I named the villainous twat of a mother character after her. I don't have an answer yet.

You know, RFK doesn’t have to do this. He can quit and retire and collect giant checks for the rest of his days. But that wouldn’t satisfy his need to watch people suffer, so…

Happy publication week to Epic and Lovely by Mo Daviau @mauditmo !! “This book is a love bomb, a love bloom, a love letter from a soul on the edge of death who talks back, cracks wise, and throws down wisdom." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Reading the Waves: A Memoir and The Chronology of Water

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Smoky sky, DT Portland.

Wrote for The Metropolitan Review about the pros & cons of working w/ small indie presses vs. big presses, the journey from almost being a big fancy author to being a medium unfancy author, and mid-career re-evaluation of what I want out of the writing life www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...

If I had known that the Smith College PR department was going to promote my book tour, I would have scheduled a Boston reading. Hmm...

Sometimes you point out your own book at the store and the customer acts like you’re a liar/you farted.

I’m happy to be neighbors with Porochista, too.

Here’s my book, warmly ensconced on the IndieNext shelf, with a staff rec from Daniel!