Lane von Herzen: Emails to the OIG Hotline on February 16, 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.

Monday, February 16, 2026

Emails to the OIG Hotline on February 16, 2026

OIG Hotline, please see my email communications to your Office today, February 16, 2026. This list will be updated throughout the day:

ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Ensuring Truthfulness in Communications, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 10:53 AM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Thank you for our phone conversation today; Conditionally Confidential, sent at 4:36 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Information, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 5:22 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: A Few Details to Considers; Conditionally Confidential, sent at 5:43 PM Pacific time.