2012 has turned out to be a great writerly year for me. In December alone, two essays and a long article were published in a diverse range of publications: "Finding the City of Whatcom" in the Journal of Whatcom Historical Society, "First Walks" in the Clover Literary Rag and "The ANN PARRY," in the wonderful Sea Chest, a publication by the Puget Sound Maritime Society. An essay "Sallie" will be in the Anthology "Loyalties" for Whatcom Reads. My county is reading Snow Falling on Cedars. Honored to be in all of them.

Nothing has been better, though, than seeing TREE SOLDIER take wings. It won the 2012 EPIC ebook award for historical fiction and was a grand prize winner in that category for Chanticleer Book Reviews. I'm touched when readers come up to me and tell me how much they loved the novel and then go on to tell me about their fathers or grandfathers who were in the CCCs. Glad to tell the story of the boys who built our parks and planted trees nearly 80 years ago.

Was excited today to be featured at Celebrating Authors with an excerpt from TREE SOLDIER. Thanks so much. http://celebratingauthors.blogspot.co...