On Monday a box full of copies of my book, Shy Ghosts Dancing: Dark Tales from Southeast Alaska arrived in the mail! I took 6 of them directly to The Babbling Book, our local bookstore, where they are now on sale. I even autographed them—a tricky thing to do when you’re a left-hander. Not only that, but I tripped on a rock while wading the creek in Mud Bay, and the cuffs of my halibut jacket were a bit muddy. I didn’t find this out until I was signing copies to send to family. Some of my kin may have gotten a more personal memento of our life here than I’d intended . . . I’m pretty sure the Babbling Book copies are pristine.
We stood in the Post Office and signed (muddy!) copies to send to both sets of parents, and as many orders as I had addresses for on hand. More went into the mail the next day. The museum folks suggested a reading long before the book came out, and I have a tentative plan to do that sometime in January. The trick will be finding a night when nothing more exciting is going on. That’s not a joke—there always seems to be something going on in town, even in the dead of winter! Aly has plans to make ghost- and perhaps log cabin-shaped sugar cookies for the event, and we should probably have some Russian tea as well. Not the Real Thing, of course, but the teetotaler’s approximation. I’ll keep you posted on that.
I got a handful of extra copies, which I’m already selling casually. If you’re looking for an autographed copy, now’s the time to order. Otherwise, your purchasing options are ever expanding, whether you live in Haines and support your local bookstore, or live elsewhere. Hopefully, you’ll see it soon in other independent bookstores around Southeast Alaska as well!