
Shop local
As much as I love the ease Amazon, there’s something indescribably special about shopping – and selling – at a local book shop. Words painstakingly crafted at a kitchen table on one end of town are printed, bound, and then lined up along wooden shelves on the other end of town. Every book store and coffee shop I have asked to carry my book has agreed to it, to generously shift inventory and make room on a shelf in their little shops for Without a Trace, a novel about an old m

The Tent
Excerpt from Chapter 27 Dateline: A city or geographic name of a story’s origin. Rennie led me past a long row of shoddy tin mailboxes, each displaying sticker numbers to indicate which home the mail inside belonged to, then slowly over a bridge that stretched across a small stream. She seemed to be leading me out of the trailer park until she lifted her cane to point to a grassy area hidden behind the park’s office. “Back there,” she said and continued on. We came around the