January 2012

Chatting up ‘The Hotel Angeline’

Yesterday, thanks to Open Road Media and BookMovement,  I and two other Seattle writers, Jennie Shortridge and Garth “Racing in the Rain” Stein, participated in an hour-long chat with readers about a novel that we and numerous other writers wrote last year in six days, while on stage before a live and occasionally inebriated audience. The event–“The Novel Live,” . . .

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Seduction and Distraction

A number of readers have asked why there are so few photographs in my books. I’ll explain. But first, let me throw some napalm on the grill and say this: If it were up to me, there would be no photographs at all. I did get my way with a couple of my books, notably Lethal . . .

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Whidbey Island, Christmas Day

I took these photographs on Christmas Day, 2011, aboard a ferry approaching Whidbey Island, in Puget Sound, during a strange and, as it happened, deadly windstorm. The photos have not been modified in any way, though some detail has been lost due to compression for posting on this site.    

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