 TIDE is not an autobiographical novel. I wasn't a marine biology buff growing up, nor was I anywhere near as observant as Miles. But bits of my life and the people I've known are sprinkled throughout the story. When I invented Miles I expected to be entertained by him. What surprised me was I came to admire him.  |
auto-bio I grew up on a lake near Seattle, and explored Puget Sound as a child during weekend trips aboard my parents’ sailboat. Wilson Rawls, the author of "Where the Red Fern Grows," visited my grade school and planted the writing seed inside me. And by my teens I'd fallen in love with the rowdy novels of writers like Ken Kesey and Tom Robbins. After graduating from the University of Washington in 1985, with degrees in creating writing and journalism, I found my first reporting job in a tiny Alaskan fishing town. From there, I fled to Washington, D.C., where I wrote columns for syndicated muckraker Jack Anderson and short fiction for literary magazines. When I returned to the Northwest, it was to Spokane, where my stories won national honors including the Livingston Young Journalist Award. I later wrote for The Seattle Times and served four years as the Portland Oregonian’s Puget Sound reporter. Along the way, my hobby/ |
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