You Could Win a HOTSHOT ARC

PLUS: Notes on writing past identities and an AMA

My forthcoming book, Hotshot, debuts in…seven weeks?!?!?! What?!

Right now you can enter to win an ARC (Advance Reader Copy) on Goodreads. Yes, you have to have (or create) a Goodreads account, but the odds are good, and it’s a physical ARC, so you’d receive it in the mail. If you win you can email me (revirybles@gmail.com) and I’ll send you a signed bookplate.

My book’s publication date has a far off future event for so long (I sold it on proposal waaaay back in 2019, and turned in the first draft in August 2020) that it’s hard to believe it’s now less than two months away. I keep thinking about my younger self: That nineteen year-old who pulled into the wildland fire company compound in Eugene, Oregon. A community college dropout, still a teenager. A survivor of sexual assault, abuse, and a total badass who was steeped in self-loathing and couldn’t see her own potential.

It’s hard to believe that was over 25 years ago, in the spring of 2000. I identified as bisexual but had no languag…