My Cactuseaters Blog Tour

                                Thank you to my friend Samuel Autman for asking me to participate in the Blog Tour, in which a group of writers talk about their latest projects and share a few words about their writing process. So here I am, taking part and passing it on. Read here about Samuel’s writing process. Here goes:1. What are you working on? For the last couple of years I have been working on a book that is now under contract with Henry Holt & Company. The working title is Soaked to the Bone. It is an embodied history of American camping, meaning that I must participate — enthusiastically, and sometimes dangerously — in every form of camping I write about. I am using a combination of research and history and my own adventures to tell the story…

Battered scuzzy copies of the Cactus Eaters …

Lately I’ve signed some seriously scary copies of my book. A few of them looked like somebody dropped them in a lake, rolled them down a hill, or cleaned their showers with them.  I signed them anyways. I am willing to sign anything except for a blank check. In other news, I’m heading to the Hoh rainforest very soon to spend time with the bugling elk and write about “quiet camping” for my new book. Also, thank you for your continued support of my first book. It keeps creeping along, slowly, inexorably, like a slimy but determined hermit crab at the bottom of the ocean. http://cactuseaters.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default