On page 51 of The Scavengers, Maggie (Ford Falcon) describes her father emerging from the shack wearing his favorite t-shirt, which she describes as blue with an illustration of an old-fashioned door lock…View post

Mike will be on the Larry Meiller show tomorrow (unless you’re reading this on Thursday September 4, in which it will be today) and you can listen live here.

Sometimes on book tour, readers arrive bearing gifts: (No hidden sponsorship deal–a guy just bought three books and then said, “Here, I figured you might need this on tour.” So a…View post

This blurry photo represents that special book tour moment when the author peeks over the stacks to see if anyone showed up. Once in Memphis there were seven people there…View post

Thanks to Euan Kerr of Minnesota Public Radio for traveling out to the farm for a visit with my chickens while we discussed the new book. You can listen here.