Lane von Herzen: Important 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.

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Important New Email for the OIG Hotline

OIG Hotline, please see a new email sent to your Office's attention within lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, bearing the subject heading ATTN: OIG HOTLINE and ODNI Investigations Re: Important Redacted Communication Regarding MacWilliams' Family Honor and Lawfulness, sent at 10:24 AM on Thursday, July 25, 2024.

Thank you for accessing this communication at your earliest opportunity, and for conveying its contents to ODNI investigations as well.

Most sincerely,