They Only Eat Their Husbands: A Memoir of Alaskan Love, World Travel, and the Power of Running Away now has a book cover. That means it won’t be long before you can hold the bound book in your hands, or download the e-version to your Kindle. No matter how unreal it seems to me, my travel memoir really is coming from Ghost Road Press this October.

If you’re interested in pre-sales, which should start in a few weeks, or if you want to come to my Denver book release party on November 5th, please join my mailing list and I’ll send you an invitation. I’ll spend the rest of November rattling around the American West in my ‘95 Honda Civic Hatchback, staying in hostels and surfing couches. If you have a couch I can ride, please let me know.

Until then, please feast your eyes on the exciting book cover above, designed by my talented editor, Matthew Davis. Then check out my latest excerpt from the pages of They Only Eat Their Husbands.

For years, I wasn’t a joiner. I felt socially awkward. I cherished my independence, and feared group-think. I had interests in common with some groups, but found they either took things too seriously, or not seriously enough. After years of dancing to my own drum, I’ve achieved a strong sense of self. But, recently, I’ve been running into people who dance to a beat that harmonizes with mine. At last, I’m finding my tribe. The wise council of this new tribe, is my book club.

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The Lighthouse Writers Workshop has published my first author interview! If you’d like to learn more about They Only Eat Their Husbands, my memoir of adventure in Alaska and around the world, and about the challenge of writing a book and getting published, check it out. You can read the interview in this fall edition of The Beacon, under “Meet Two of Lighthouse’s Rising Stars.” Star? Wow, I hope. For now, let’s just call me a reflective planet with possibilities!

https://lighthousewriters.org/images/document/217-Beacon%20October%20November%202009.pdf