Lane von Herzen: Important 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.

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Important Email for the OIG Hotline

OIG Hotline, please see an important communication sent to your Office's attention within lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, bearing the subject heading ATTN: OIG HOTLINE and Concerned Others Re: Recommendations Regarding Likely False Reporting About My Husband from Yellowstone National Park, sent at 6:52 PM today, October 5, 2024.

Because this documentation may have important bearing on my husband's safety and that of my other family members, I would respectfully request that you access its contents at the earliest opportunity.

Most sincerely,