Lane von Herzen: Email Communications to the OIG Hotline, February 6 and 7, 2026

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, February 7, 2026

Email Communications to the OIG Hotline, February 6 and 7, 2026

OIG Hotline, please see below my communications to your Office from my gmail account yesterday and today, February 6 and 7, 2026. Please note that this list is not complete.

Emails sent on February 6, 2026:

ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Explanation of My Income, Updated, 4:44 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Apparent Threats to the MacWilliams Family, February 6, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 7:07 PM.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Request on Your Behalf; Outreach, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 7:10 PM Pacific time.

Emails sent on February 7, 2026: