Want to get a taste of my new novel Wake the Wild Creatures? You can now read an exclusive excerpt from the book on People.com! This is the very opening scene of the story…
…and I really hope it entices you to keep reading, and perhaps get a copy of the book when it comes out on May 6?
The very beginning of the novel starts like this:
At first it was beautiful. A hunter’s moon hovered in the sky, tremendous and pulsing with light, making the air glow warm all around me. I was spending the night out on my own, near the perimeter marked with subtle symbols and stones, wandering for the joy of it, then running because I could. I lost hold of time passing, or maybe the hours themselves held still. Tree bodies everywhere. Knotted oak shoulders and the rough, ridged skin of red spruce and tall firs. The forest I’d known all my life was awake, and so was I: two quick legs whipping through the bright-gold dark, more animal than girl.
Keep reading at People.com for an exclusive early look at the whole opening chapter!
You can pre-order signed & personalized copies of Wake the Wild Creatures from my local independent bookshop, Head House Books. Or you can pre-order the hardcover, ebook, or audiobook in all your favorite places where books are sold.
And finally… come see me on book tour May 4–9! Details here!