Colorado, here I come

Returning to the scene of the literary crime...

On Tuesday, I fly to Colorado to kick off a weeklong tour of ski towns, winding up with several events in Aspen. This is an obvious way to support a novel set in a ski town, but for me it’s also a chance to return to the wellspring of We Bring You an Hour of Darkness.

In my early twenties, I was a reporter at the Aspen Daily News, an experience that helped inspire my second novel, much of which is set in the newsroom of a ski-town newspaper. The Franklin Flyer of the novel is not the Aspen Daily News - among many other things, the Daily News did not have a woman as its editor and publisher - but it’s safe to say that if I hadn’t spent those two and a half years in Aspen, my second novel would have been about something else.

Last week, my old paper put me and the book on the front page:

Equally as cool, Telluride magazine published a chapter of We Bring You and Hour of Darkness in its winter issue, along with some killer illustrations by Tim Johnson.

I will be signing books at the Between the Covers bookstore in Telluride from 3-4 p.m. on Wednesday, December 10. The next night I plan to be back in Telluride for a Booze and Books book club meeting. I’ll also be dropping in at bookstores in Crested Butte, Ouray, Carbondale, Edwards (Vail) to sign books and meet booksellers.

If you know someone who lives in the Colorado mountains, please send them this email. Otherwise, if you haven’t got your copy yet, you can buy We Bring You an Hour of Darkness directly from DoppelHouse Press or from Amazon.com, Bookshop.org, Amazon.ca, Barnes & Noble, and of course your local bookstore.

Here I am earlier today, at my local bookstore, the Broadway branch of Book Warehouse in Vancouver, signing the two copies they had on the shelves.

Bonus tracks:

We Bring You an Hour of Darkness got a glowing review in the British Columbia Review. The Denver Post also ran a short review this past weekend, but it’s behind a paywall.

If you’ve read the book and liked it, please post a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads. Those reviews make a big difference.