ISLAND AIR

2 new books from Good Deed Rain

will be published November 2.

(Available from Amazon, or me).

Here's the cover (beautiful photo of

Salish Sea by local art student Joel Aparicio)

for my novel ISLAND AIR, featuring our hero

Vatican Jones, who builds a big wooden box

using haiku dimensions 5x7x5 feet, in hopes of

sailing it out to the islands. Alas, things go amiss

when a television crew arrives by train in town

to film a detective show and he becomes a suspect.

Takes place during 1992 and 1942 in Bellingham,

featuring cafes and libraries, streetsingers and

wind creatures. I've been working on this for a

year and I think you'll love it. A perfect winter

read.

"He wondered what Philip Marlowe would do…

stuck behind a painted line in an alley full of rain…

a lost book of Japanese poetry…and a fifty year

old spoon in his coat pocket."