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The Year of Fog is now in its thirteenth paperback printing.

The Year of Fog on Culture Vulture–a review by Frances Dinkelspiel.

Robert Owen took this photograph of Java Beach just off La Playa in San Francisco. This is one of the places where Abby posts flyers in The Year of Fog. Robert recently swung through San Francisco and has posted a whole new slew of wonderful photographs in his Year of Fog set on Flickr.

Thanks to readers and booksellers, The Year of Fog will have a third run on the New York Times best seller list.

It’s always nice to see The Year of Fog on top of someone’s TBR pile. This pile happens to belong to a photographer, someone named Val who publishes the lovely photography blog Picture Perfect. Thanks, Val!

I mean, I hearted New York when I lived there, almost a decade ago, but now I heart it even more…as I just found out that The Year of Fog, which was released in paperback about four weeks ago, has made the New York Times bestseller list. Go Yankees! (Or is it the Mets?)

It’s been a fun ride with The Year of Fog, which came out in April and went into its fourth printing a couple of months ago. I’m thrilled that The Year of Fog is included on the Washington Post’s list of top-rated books in 2007, as well as Library Journal’s Best Books of 2007. Thanks [...]

A photographer and sea captain named Robert Owen in Oregon has embarked on this fabulous photo tour of THE YEAR OF FOG. You can follow Owens’s photos from Ocean Beach into the Mission and beyond.

I’ve received a lot of interesting questions from readers in the seven months since THE YEAR OF FOG was published, but this one from Ron and Holly in Aurora, Colorado, may be my favorite: Do you have the recipe for the french toast Nick made, with the Nes-quik & vanilla extract? To Ron & Holly [...]

Fog Bay has some nice photos of the Mechanics Institute Library, where my character, Nell Novotnoy, is a librarian. Nell, Abby’s friend and neighbor, introduces her to seminal works on memory by Frances Yates, Raymond Lull, and others. For me, researching memory–how we works, the differences between the reality of memory and how we perceive [...]