Hi, Everyone –
First, I wanted to let you know that I’ll be signing books and giving a reading at Jan’s, a store in downtown Beaverton, from 10am - 2pm on Saturday, October 15th . The address is 12320 SW 1 st in Beaverton, 97005. The reading from “To Live and Die in the Floating World” is scheduled for 11:00. I hope you can come.
It has also been a busy couple of weeks as I work to get some recent and some less-recent works into print:
My agent has “City of Lights, City of Shadows,” a mystery/suspense story set in Paris, and will be sending it to publishers over the next few weeks. Wish her (and me) luck.
I’ve also sent “King’s Valley” to Ooligan Press. This one is a bittersweet love story about a first-year high-school English teacher in a dying logging town in Oregon who has a beautiful, rebellious seventeen year-old in his class, and he falls in love – with her mother.
Finally, I’m taking some first steps to serialize online my first child, as it were, an historical novel with a taste of the supernatural, set in Gaul and Briton during the Caesar’s Gallic Wars. This is one I wrote almost twenty years ago, and may be my best, though it has had a hard time finding a home. (Contest time: If any of you has a great idea for a title for this one, I could use one.)
I shouldn’t have said “finally.” I’ve also sent to a friend and writing professor a serio-comic novel based on my days as a gardener in Malibu back in the 70s. Tentative title: “Werewolves of Malibu.” When it’s ready, I’ll be sending that one too to my overworked agent.
That’s about it for now. I’ll send out a reminder about Jan’s next week. It would be great to see you there.
Best to all, Steve