There's a chapter in EXODUS 2022, where orca whales travel deep into Puget Sound, to the Manette Bridge in Kitsap County. It actually happened last week, and my wife, Susan Andersson (marine naturalist and founder of Kitsap Orca Watch got some cool pictures. Have you e...

Dear Readers,

Thank you for your support, feedback, and reviews throughout 2014.

My sci-fi thriller EXODUS 2022 launched on May 20, 2014 and thanks to the awesome

marketing team from publisher Booktrope, Seattle (led by Book Manager Christina Boyd) the book got a lot of...

I just watched a couple of spots in Conservation International’s new television campaign and I’m impressed. The spots I viewed—featuring Julia Roberts as the voice of Mother Nature, and Harrison Ford as the voice of Earth’s oceans—are powerful and poignant. The spots c...

Summer 2014 was a blast, with the launch of Exodus 2022, family hiking adventures, and the start of new writing projects. I got to go whale watching with my wife and accompany her on San Juan Island while she attended marine naturalist training and #SuperPod3. Our son...

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives v...

In 2002, heavy rain washed out a football field-sized chunk of the Dosewallips River Road on Olympic National Forest land, closing vehicle access to a section of Olympic National Park. Those wishing to hike to Anderson Pass or Lake Valkyrie must now walk an additional...

Just returned from a late summer hiking adventure with my son Eli, in my favorite place on the planet, Olympic National Park. It was on earlier hikes in Olympic NP that I got the ideas for two of my books, The Gaia Wars and Exodus 2022. Ideas seemed to spring out of th...

I believe that our ancestors were connected to the land and environment, in ways we can scarcely imagine.

So-called primitive peoples knew how to read the sky, the weather, the stars. They knew what plants were safe to eat, where to find game, fresh water, and material...

Like a bazillion other people, I love the Reacher books by Lee Child and am in awe of Child’s talent for crafting tight, tense thrillers.

The Reacher books are so engrossing and enjoyable I find it hard to slow down and analyze what makes them brilliant. But when I do...

As an “emerging author”, yesterday was my debut reading of Exodus 2022 at my local indie bookstore, and I really didn’t know what to expect. Sunny, warm days are rare on Bainbridge Island (a few miles west of Seattle) and yesterday was gorgeous. In the hours leading up...