The summer of 2024 was a strange one for me. I spent it at the Rainbow Gatherings in the Plumas National Forest. I was out there maybe 7 weeks. Here is the irony.

My novel was published in 2020 and the primary story unfolds in 1990. A large part of the novel takes place at a gathering style event. Other settings are San Francisco and California’s north coast.

Because it was a work of fiction, I choose the Plumas National Forest for the setting of the gathering style get together because there ha...