Fiction

• Idaho Code (2006) -- Finalist 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery; Nominated 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction
  Everyone knows that Idaho is full of crackpots. The big secret is that not all of them belong to right-wing militias. Some are lesbian separatists, some are ex- hippies, and some are members of Wilhelmina “Bil” Hardy’s immediate family.
  
  Burned by a love affair gone wrong, Bil has left college in Seattle and moved back home to Cowslip, population 23,000. It ought to be the perfect place to lick her wounds, recover her bearings, and begin to make a plan for the future. Unfortunately, Bil's terminally ill brother has embarked on a petty crime spree, Cowslip has become ground zero in the battle over an anti-gay initiative, and it looks as if Bil's mother might have been involved in a long ago murder.
  
  Can Bil help her brother, fight oppression, and clear her mother's good name when what she really wants is a date with the murder victim’s daughter?
  
  Idaho Code is a funny book about love, family, and the freedom you can find in a state that values individuality more than common sense.

• From Hell to Breakfast (2007 release)
  The Sequel to Idaho Code
  
  "My brother, Sam, died as he’d lived—with criminal charges pending."
  
  Sam Hardy is gone but not forgotten. That's because he causes nearly as much trouble dead as he did when he was alive. A note found in his dresser taps his sister, Bil, to deliver the eulogy at his funeral, but she'd really rather not. For one thing, she's torn between genuine grief and guilty relief. Sam was not an easy brother to love. For another, she knows that her overbearing mother, Emma, had been looking forward to using the pulpit herself to deliver a stinging indictment of the criminal justice system, the War on Drugs, and Sam's juvenile delinquent loser friends who always seemed to leave him holding the bag.
  
  Will Bil's relationship with girlfriend Sylvie survive the family fallout? Whose life will Emma run now that Sam is gone? And how did the dead body of Sam's favorite drug dealer wind up in an old shack on the Hardy family farm?
  
  From Hell the Breakfast proves that when it comes to death, anger doesn't always give way to acceptance, but it sometimes shares a bed with humor.

• Don't Mind If I Do (In progress)
  Poppy Koslowski doesn't think she'll miss her uterus. It aches, it shudders, it's nothing but trouble. On the whole, it's like an old muscle car up on blocks in the driveway -- sure, it has a certain potential, but it's falling apart. Why should Poppy keep it around on the off chance that she might someday fix it up and take it out for a joy ride?
  
  Surgery seems like the perfect solution. Her alcoholic grandfather is dying, her ne'er-do-well father is AWOL, and her mother and grandmother have moved in together and begun reenacting scenes from Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? As the only child of two only children, Poppy's hysterectomy will finally put an ax to the root of this misbegotten family tree. So why isn't she feeling very happy about the prospect?
  
  Part memoir, part love story, Don't Mind If I Do is about coming to grips with the past in order to embrace the future, even if you never understand either of them.

See also:

• The Auntie Establishment & Brother Carl Show, KRFP, Moscow
  The radio show streams via Internet live broadcast on Sundays from 2 to 4 pm, PST, and downloads are available.