New Novel News – The Heron Catchers

More good news to share! My third novel, The Heron Catchers, has been accepted for publication by Stone Bridge Press. I have no details about its release, no decisions have been made about its cover art (despite the image I've uploaded here), and the editing process hasn't started yet, but I do have this news. Now on to the next one.

Following is a short summary of the novel:

After Nozomi abandons Sedge and their marriage, taking all their money and leaving him with a ceramics shop he can’t manage alone, her brother and his wife offer him a lifeline at their Japanese hot spring inn until he can get back on his feet. As he extricates himself from this personal devastation and tries to move forward in his life, he becomes involved with the wife of the man Nozomi ran off with as well as her stepson, a troubled 16-year-old whose jealousy and potential for violence contrasts with his interests in birds, origami, and the haiku poetry of Matsuo Bashō. What unfolds in the shadow of “the immortal mountain of cranes” will change their lives forever.

Set in Kanazawa and Yamanaka Onsen near the Sea of Japan, The Heron Catchers explores the importance of recognizing suffering both in others and in oneself, of being compassionate, and of trusting those who offer love in the shattering wake of loss.

(Image from https://nijo-jocastle.city.kyoto.lg.jp/.../high.../ninomaru/)