Feb 11, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS Find my books at Powell’s In 1990, I was new to the Pacific Northwest. Even in the hinterlands of Spokane though, where I was an undergraduate, rumors of a city of books had filtered out. So on the first Oregon roadtrip with my...
Feb 5, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Find my books at Auntie’s Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS I moved from California to the wilds of Spokane Washington for my undergraduate degree. Honestly, I think it was the farthest I could get from home and still remain in the same time zone. It was my first...
Jan 25, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Read my books at Vroman’s Bookstore Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS After living overseas for many years, one of my earliest memories of an American bookstore was in the 1980s, when I first walked into Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena California. The store...
Jan 15, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Read my books at Browsers Bookshop Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS When I moved to Olympia Washington in 2003, I had no idea that this was the town in which my bestselling novel The Eagle Tree would be set, and I had no idea that I’d gradually fall in love with...
Jan 4, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
In 2018, I’m writing a short series of posts on bookstores I know and love. The series was due to begin in early February, and I’ve already written love letters (not yet published) to many of the bookstores I love, and told you exactly why you should visit...
Dec 11, 2017 | Current Ned Note, News and Media, On Books, On Writing, Past Notes
Reviewer Jeb Harrison published a great introduction to my novel SINFUL FOLK in the Huffington Post Book section! Tales of Hard Winters Long Ago The writer Richard Adams, in Watership Down, said that “Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what...