My editor told me to make this blog more about me than about the book. With all the stuff out there (I’ve got a website, I review books on Amazon, I’ve got my reading list on Goodreads, I’m on Facebook, I’m on YouTube), I can’t believe everyone doesn’t already know everything there is to know about me, but okay, here’s some floating factoids you may have missed.

I’m an American but I wasn’t born in a state.

My parents split up when I was six months old and I didn’t meet my father again until I was fourteen when my mother sent me to Anchorage to go to the dentist.

I spent five years of my childhood off and on a 75-foot fish tender called the Celtic.

My oldest and dearest friend is half-Aleut half-Filipino, and any time I wasn’t on the Celtic I was at her house. I didn’t know I was white until I went away to college.

My back yard was off the stern of the Celtic, Kachemak Bay, Cook Inlet, and Prince William Sound. Even then I knew how staggeringly beautiful it was. I have never taken where I grew up for granted.

There were 5 people in my graduating class in Seldovia High School, and that included me.

There’s a background you’ll ever see in a Steven Spielberg movie.