Matthew Wayne Selznick

So it's been a while since I've written much -- since the fires settled down, anyway. I guess I don't have the urge to do reportage, or whatever it was I was doing during that week. So my new magazine is out there. I'm hoping (hint) that some folks will contribute fiction to it for the next issue -- I'd like to reach a point before very long where months go by without a story…

We never needed to have left our home. On Halloween night, it rained. It was perfect.

We continue to await the hopefully not inevitable voluntary evacuation notice -- we're still several miles away from the front line of the fire, but the wind is pretty strong, so anything's possible. Those of you who might expect a call, we won't be calling until it's to let you we're leaving... if you don't hear from us, we're fine. I just heard that 90% of the homes in Julian, California, have been lost. Julian…