Fog Blog

13

michell3 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:51:28 +0000

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

culture vulture

michell3 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:02:50 +0000

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

Java Beach

michell3 — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:46:05 +0000

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.

yay!

michell3 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:39:52 +0000

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

on the pile

michell3 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:44:37 +0000

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 Heart New York

michell3 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:26:27 +0000

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?)

Year of Fog at Year’s End

michell3 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:12:11 +0000

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 to librarians for giving readers a chance to discover a book that otherwise might have fallen through the cracks. The Year of Fog has been very much a word-of-mouth book, one which owes a great deal of its success to the librarians and booksellers who have been so kind as to give a novel by a relatively unknown writer prominent placement on their shelves. And of course, thanks to the readers! Please keep your emails coming. It has been such a pleasure to hear from you over the last few months.

Year of Fog photo tour

michell3 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:47:21 +0000

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.

Nick Elliott & the French Toast Connection

michell3 — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:33:12 +0000

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 and anyone else who’s jonesing for some French Toast a-la-Nick, recipe coming soon!

Mechanics Institute Library

michell3 — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:41:27 +0000

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 memory–was one of the most interesting aspects of writing THE YEAR OF FOG.