Hello to my subscribers and especially my book club members! If you haven’t seen my kickoff Live from Elko video, you can find it here.

If you’ve been reading Firetender along with us, you have probably picked up on the type of background the characters have experienced: fatherless homes, impoverished neighborhood, small town. For more insight into the childhoods of Dallas and Channing and to see the town they chose to leave, I want to share these photos and vi...