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Island Life: I Know We Are All Sick Of Zoom But Also It’s Actually Kind Of Great

Before we moved to Orcas Island, we lived in Portland, Oregon. Portland is famous (and rightfully so) for many things–Portlandia, roses, coffee, bicycles, beer, hipsters, hipster coffee, hipster beer–but one of the most important things for me about Portland was Powell’s Bookstore. Well, bookstores, actually; in addition to the giant mother ship downtown (oh my

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That Thing I’ve Been Hinting About

The return of Our Lady of the Islands–and an all-new sequel! Because everything always takes longer than you expect it will…sometimes WAY longer…at long last, I am delighted to announce the re-release of the celebrated novel Our Lady of the Islands (which I wrote collaboratively with the late Jay Lake), and its as-yet-unnamed sequel! Outland Entertainment, my publisher for the

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Beach Walking

We live on an island–Orcas Island, in the San Juans, in farthest western Washington State–and there are lots of lovely woods here. I’ve written before about how much I love walking in the woods, how I walk nearly every day up the country road outside our house, to pick up the mail, or just to

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