Hello from Bodega Bay. So far, The Birds haven’t attacked us. We’re not on vacation down south here. Oh no, we’re on a book research mission. Shelley and I’ve been touring Sonoma wine country and now we’re out at the coast partaking of salt-air hikes and sumptuous seafood. All this for the very businesslike purpose of backgrounding my next Peyton McKean mystery, tentatively entitled “High Stone Chateau.”<\/p>\n
How better to get that verisimilitude that’s needed to give the reader a feeling for the place and circumstances of a story? Sip some wine at this chateau, hike the hills at that nature preserve, snap some photos of those vineyards, and, you know, get a feel for the milieu.<\/p>\n
This is the hard work of fiction writing, and I take it very seriously. So far, Jack London’s Wolf House, built of huge rough hewn stone blocks, has been the favorite place where.<\/p>\n
More later on this story as it reels off the keyboard. Enough for now. Gotta go get some fresh oysters on the half shell down at Inverness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On a book research mission, I’ve been touring Sonoma wine country and the NorCal coast for the purpose of backgrounding my next Peyton McKean mystery, tentatively entitled “High Stone Chateau.” Continue reading