Please join me and more than 30 other writers with links to Northern Nevada for the Washoe County Library 2024 Local Author Fest on Saturday, November 9 from 10am to 4pm at the Downtown Reno Library. I’ll be selling copies of Reno’s Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City and reading in the auditorium at 1:40pm. Hope to see you there!
I can now announce an exciting secret I’ve had to keep for a few weeks, the absolute honor of being voted Best Local Author in the 2024 Reno News & Review Best of Northern Nevada Reader’s Poll! 7500 people voted in the final round, and I want to extend my deep and heartfelt thanks to those who nominated me, who clicked on my name, and most of all, who have found anything I’ve written over the past 20+ years to be enjoyable, educational, or illuminating.
Whether you discovered my writing from my historical articles, my book Reno’s Big Gamble, my e-newsletter The Barber Brief, my pieces for Reno Historical, or something else, your support has helped me to achieve my lifelong dream of researching and writing for a living. Please join me in congratulating all the other nominees and awardees (you can read the full list here), and please make an effort to support all of the authors who make our local literary landscape so rich & inspiring.
Lastly, thanks so much to the wonderful Reno News & Review, one of our community’s most treasured platforms for local writing and reporting. Words matter, but they can only take flight when they are valued, supported, and shared. I am so grateful to all of you for making me feel so loved and appreciated–it means the absolute world to me. And now, back to work!
Be sure to check out my e-newsletter, The Barber Brief. You can visit the website for the full archive and subscribe to have each new issue mailed directly to your email inbox.
I was so pleasantly surprised and honored to find myself included among Reno Gazette-Journal columnist Sheila Leslie’s list of Heroes to inspire Northern Nevada in 2021 with some very kind words she wrote about me and my efforts to keep the community informed about Reno development, historic preservation, and related issues. You can read the full column at the above link.
Sheila Leslie’s column in the Reno Gazette-Journal was published online on December 23, 2020 (click on the image to link to the full piece).
I’m so grateful for the support, and encourage anyone who shares these interests to sign up for my upcoming free newsletter, The Barber Brief, where I’ll offer information, research, and analysis to promote greater citizen participation in issues related to Reno’s development. Happy New Year!
I recently wrote a piece for This Is Reno, in response to an op-ed by EDAWN head Mike Kazmierski in the Reno Gazette-Journal that called downtown Reno an “eyesore.” (My response was longer than could be published in the RGJ itself. You can read my piece (which links to Kazmierski’s) here.
