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I'm grateful to the independent booksellers hosting me in their wonderful stores — I've just updated the schedule. I'll be starting in the north in mid-September; the grand circle of Washington state runs from Walla Walla, to Spokane, to Leavenworth (and a bookstore with a tree house), to Bellingham, Bainbridge Island and Olympia. The store in Olympia has a resident cat and orca pod. I can't wait. Of course this has taken lots of planning...
Therese Ambrosi Smith became fascinated by a remarkable collection of WWII oral histories at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historic Park, and her debut novel, Wax, was born. Her short fiction has incorporated personal tales of work and travel: climbing mountains, surveying logging roads, designing parks and playgrounds, tending bar and selling fish. She completed the UCLA Writers' Program in June 2009, and is currently embarking on a "tin can camper book tour."