Lane von Herzen: Recent Emails to 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.

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Recent Emails to the OIG Hotline

September 5, 2026

ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Notarized Affidavits for Your Office, September 6, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 8:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: On the Separation of Church and State, sent at 7:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Faraday Containers Inhibit Unauthorized Vehicle Entry and Wifi Piracy By the FBI, sent at 5:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 12:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, September 5 and September 6, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 12:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update Pertaining to September 5, 2026, sent at 12:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time.