This June I was delighted to learn that How We Survive Here was honored as a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in the Memoirs (historical/career/legacy) category. The impressive medal they sent (I wasn’t able to attend the ceremony in DC) arrived a couple of weeks ago.
But it truly felt like I was hitting the big time when my local newspaper, the Mercer Island Reporter, published an article about my journey writing the book. It seems appropriate that the photo in the article shows me attempting to blacksmith, which strikes me (sorry) as a metaphor for what it’s like to forge an historical novel into being. The picture was taken in 2013 during the time I was seeking to better understand the protagonist, Michael Harm, of my historical novel The Last of the Blacksmiths.
Thanks to Corey Oldenhuis of Sound Publishing for writing up this article. (Click on article below to go to the full text on the MI Reporter website.)
