Yet another teeny excerpt…

“Tom. Been a while.” 

“John. You look sober.” 

“It happens.” 

“Good to know.” 

Launching from the Poisoned Pen Bookstore on February 28, 2026.

An excerpt…

And omg, the line breaks, which are different from chapter to road map to chapter. In the Jon Snow “Ghost Map” chapter they are recreations of the dashes Snow used to indicate cholera deaths on his original map.  “The Great Library” chapter uses the Greek key design. The chapter on treasure maps—oh, of course, a tiny skull-and-crossbones. There is a chapter on the OS maps that are the only possible guides to get you unlost in the UK (arrows). One on cinema cartography begins with Casablanca and Indiana Jones and The Muppets, and then the Marauder’s Map even gets a mention! (stars, natch)

“The Marauder’s Map clearly embodies the surveillance potential of digital cartography,” Sebastien Caquard posits.

One assumes in all seriousness.

–from my review of Simon Garfield’s On the Map

Storyknife Fall Fundraiser

Some great news–a Friend of Storyknife has pledged to match dollar for dollar up to $35,000 in this year’s fall challenge!

Click here and hey, presto, double your donation!
And on behalf of the Storyknife residents of 2026,
thank you all so much for your support!

And–ta dah!–here are all the writers from 2025!

May the road rise to meet you. —traditional Irish blessing

I just spent three weeks with my Irish family in West Cork,
where everywhere you look is a photograph in waiting.
Sunrises and country lanes and handmade stone walls…

…and stone circles and sacred springs and surf-torn cliffs…

…and Banksy-like road sign embellishments, and moss-covered trees,
and double rainbows…

…and ye olde country mansions once occupied by "big house people,"
and mist rising around grazing horses,
and sunsets over the Atlantic.

Until next time, dear Ireland.