I was recently up on Orcas Island, hanging out with my dear mom to celebrate Mother’s Day, and meeting with some wonderful friends and allies in the writing world who helped (and helped and helped) plan the launch of Warhead—which will take place on July 2, 2019.

Choosing Orcas was easy. My parents retired there in the mid-1990s and I’ve been visiting regularly ever since, first from New York, where I’d been living until recently, and now from Seattle, which is much, much closer. My father pa...