My book

Some of you have asked about the book that I'm getting published. Here's the story:

When I was 14 years old my family sold our home in Alaska and we drove to Florida where we bought a 40-foot sailboat named Carina. We lived on that boat for three years traveling from Florida to the Bahamas, Caribbean, through the Gulf of Mexico to the Panama Canal, through the canal and up the west coast of Central America, Mexico and the United States all the way back to Alaska. We sold the boat in 1979. I started writing a book about life on board Carina about 15 years ago and have slowly refined it to where it is today.

That's our boat, lower right with two masts, in Gustavia harbor on the island of St. Barts in the Caribbean.

I have a publisher in Alaska. It's the same publisher who published my children's book Song of the Raven. When I published my first book I made a commitment to the publisher to give him first option on my next book. Carina is my next book some 10 years later.

We are just in the beginning stages but he's told me we should have cartons of books delivered in about 8 weeks. I'm very excited about it!

In the pic above I'm the second from the right at about age 16. My sister, Aunt Krissy (who occasionally takes credit for my artwork and writes sassy comments on my posts) is the second from left. She's quite the joker.