beguiling

Washington state winter tourism poster pitch

clambake

Grinch Watcher

4 o'clock

Mummy News

We were watching a TV episode of Hart to Hart from 1981 called “Murder Wrap” and I discovered it’s a spoof of my 1970s detective novel JONES JR. What an honor!

Rin-Tin-Tin Jr.

cedar

stretch

winter cabbage

Joe's Garden in winter. This same place was the cover of 2020's novel FIELD OF CABBAGES

2024 Good Deed Rain

A scene from the latest novel, FLOP. This is my real-life art exhibition that lasted for two minutes last summer. Good Deed Rain published 4 novels during 2024: HOLOGRAMS FROM MARS, THE BELATEDS, JONES JR., FLOP. They’re great! Put on your reading glasses and find out! So far I have 2 more novels ready for 2025 so stay tuned!

2024 #1

HOLOGRAMS FROM MARS. A melting wax museum. An unsuccessful Martian. Postum product placement. A robot landmark. Joan Crawford and Don Knotts. A wolf at the zoo. A windup mouse on the cement. The multiple dimensions of reincarnation. Searchlights on Jupiter Hill.

2024 #2

THE BELATEDS. When I worked at a comic book warehouse, Michael told me he saw the Beatles downtown in 1964. This novel takes place in four different Seattles, all related to that event. A tenement house with a mysterious stranger—Mike drives to the ocean with his cat—a father looks for tickets for his daughter—a girl carries a breadloaf and rides a horse under the monorail—The Belateds play on top of the house.

2024 #3

JONES JR. This is how a novel would appear as a TV show in the 1970s. A bicycling detective. Shoe shining. Another world called Avalon you can’t resist. A seedy apartment. A mummy escapes from the museum. Flying over the Pacific Ocean beach in a garbage can.

2024 #4

FLOP. A novel about how not to care for a seal. Featuring an artist who lives on a rooftop with pterodactyls. Amelia Earhart makes a cameo appearance. Or does she? Bees have taken over the gallery’s second floor. A gameshow and a gangster. A whale for a taxicab.

10:30 AM

breakfast

21st Century

foggy whensday

sputnik

Sputnik appearance on page 86 of FLOP

FLOP chapters

Free Island

Magic Island novel in the free box

FLOP SYNOPSIS

FLOP! While housesitting for a movie star, Oscar Morris loses a beloved pet seal. Meanwhile, The B Minus Gallery presents his timeless art exhibition, which attracts a vengeful clone. Battling pterodactyls and time travel frauds, our hero must outwit seal rustlers and a gangster on the briny sea. Illustrated by the author, this novel of humor and fantasy is another poetic adventure for all ages. It comes in unique soft cover and hardbound editions. Available for order December 12 Enjoy!

FLOP

Here's the cover spread (back, spine, front) for next book, FLOP. Rob Millis helped me with this, and came up with the great idea of the title tripping on spine.

cosmodrome

The Cosmodrome is open again

galoshes

The fog is coming back on Carl Sandburg galoshes.

FLOP

There's a new novel available from Good Deed Rain! Publication date is December 12. The title is FLOP. This is the cover photo, taken in the art gallery here at work, featuring my exhibition that lasted for less than 5 minutes last summer. More about this book soon, it's a fun one!

a foggy day in Bellingham

free museum

A free copy of The Robert Huck Museum