rabbit in disguise

Emily Dickinson mittens

Every time we visit Los Angeles I bring some books in hopes that I can leave them at a bookstore or café, but I’m always too chicken to ask. Here’s the batch that flew there with me and flew back again. Sorry books, your creator wears Emily Dickinson mittens.

rhododendron

Do You Know Why You're Here?

The cover for the next novel, being published in May. Stay tuned for more about Do You Know Why You're Here?

oxford

I'm reading The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Terrifying.

electric apple blossoms

one Saturday morning

Another Good Deed Rain novel will be published in May. Here's a preview of a page. Stay tuned!

Goodwin Plenty is real!

another world

walking through woods on the way here, through field, looking at the trees in the sky, it's real obvious there's another world going on. It's inspiring the next book I'm working on

apple on the wall

Art student Lydia's apple in the gallery. (The very same gallery where my FLOP novel takes place. Only this show is a hit).

the otherworldly hand

Spotted this little handprint in the creek. It doesn't look like a raccoon, could it be some otherworldly entity who walks on one hand?

on the Art Department wall

good page spreads

Some page spreads from the softcover and hardbound versions of GOODWIN PLENTY

good page spreads

good page spreads

good page spreads

good page spreads

swimming lessons

good chapters

Today is the official publication date for the new novel, GOODWIN PLENTY. Goodwin is a salesman of sorts buying backyards for Mars. It’s a fun one. Here are the chapters:

willowed