Lane von Herzen: New Email for the OIG Hotline

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Friday, November 17, 2023

New Email for the OIG Hotline

OIG Hotline, please be apprised that two new emails have been sent to your attention within lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, with copies sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com and lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com, bearing the following subject headings and date/time stamps:

ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Rising Measures of Environmental ...; sent on November 17, 2023 at 8:25 AM
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update; sent on November 17, 2023 at 1:44 PM

As you know, the OIG Hotline has my express permission to access my email accounts at any time your Office so desires.

Due to the fact that I received a threat that the FBI created an AI-generated film, knowingly false, depicting someone with my likeness in the act of shoplifting, I plan to provide your Office with yet another general affidavit this weekend, and I will endeavor to persuade my husband to do the same.

To confirm, I have never shoplifted anything in my life, and I do not intend to begin.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is true and correct.

With abiding appreciation,