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Tomorrow night (Feb 13th) I’ll be joining dozens of writers at the San Francisco Writers Conference Sips & Stories After Dark Event. It’s free to attend, but you must register. Come say hi! I’d love to see you. More information…
The holidays have arrived and with them the end of 2025 and the year that The Expert of Subtle Revisions arrived. I made a year-in-review video that features some of the year’s highlights–from appearing among NPR’s 2025 Books We Love,…
I was thrilled to discover THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS on NPR’s 2025 Books We Love, where it was tagged as a Book Club Idea, Rather Short, Historical Fiction, Mysteries & Thriller, and Tales From Around the World. Writer and…
Greetings from San Francisco! Today, I was thrilled and grateful to discover that Walter Cummins reviewed THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS for The California Review of Books: “Menger-Anderson’s success for readers, beyond her strengths in creating people and realities, depends…
Hello! Hard to believe that September has arrived, but so it has. I hope you had a good summer! Since last I wrote, THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS has found a home on Wikipedia, which now has a page dedicated…
Happy July! I was thrilled to find The Expert of Subtle Revisions at Bookshop Santa Cruz last weekend. As a Santa Cruz native, I visited that bookshop before I could even walk! I was also really happy to be part…
Hello! Hope July is off to a good start for you! I’m looking forward to reading later this month at Kepler’s signature reading series, Story is the Thing, with Kyle Edwards, Kate Folk, Beena Kamlani, and J. E. Weiner. Reception…
The library in Vienna’s Rathaus–the city’s famous Town Hall–is currently hosting an exhibition on the history of the Vienna Circle, which is not only fascinating, but was an inspiration for my novel, THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS. The Vienna Circle,…
Happy summer solstice! Since last I wrote, I’ve become one of the over ten thousand writers in the Poets and Writers’ Directory! I’ve subscribed to the magazine for years, so it’s extra nice to be listed with my fellow writers.…
Happy birthday to Egon Schiele, born on the 12th of June 1890 in Tullin (about 20 miles west of Vienna). I’ve always loved his paintings and was thrilled when one was used on the cover of my novel THE EXPERT…
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