Time to reveal what I’ve been working on over the winter! But first, some background for those who don’t know the story.
I started working at a bookstore when I was 14. Before working in the store, I was a frequent customer and had become good friends with the owner, Karen Baker. Karen founded the bookstore in the summer of 1994, and her very first customer was her mother, Kathryn Mitz Wilson.
Fast forward a couple decades and Karen and I had become not just friends, but family. Karen lost her mother before I ever knew her, so I never had the opportunity to meet Kathryn but I did get to know her through stories shared. Karen told me that her mother had written a book and her dream once she retired from owning a bookstore was to get her mother’s book published.
Unfortunately, Karen passed before retiring and the manuscript that had helped her mother recover from an aneurysm lost its champion. Knowing how important this was to Karen, I decided that with the family’s blessing, I would take on the task of helping this work see the light of day.
Now, it will see the light of day on April 27! While books normally release on Tuesdays, I chose this day for its release because it was Karen’s birthday. So what’s it about?

The planet is dying. Botanist Ad MacMillan knows this, but he doesn’t know why. After a discovery at his family home, the mystery begins to unravel. With the help of a quirky cabbie, a hopeless romantic, and a beautifully brilliant scientist, Ad sets off on a journey that will change all of them, and alter the fate of mankind.
Perhaps it was Kathryn’s love of science fiction or just the way her brain worked, but her vision of humanity and the tragic effects of mankind on nature are what makes this tale so timely.
You can pre-order a copy at your local independent bookstore, through Bookshop.org, or from the bookstore that started it all: The Country Bookseller in Wolfeboro, NH.