A tale: a trail on the tail of the whale

I was asked recently how many years Wake of the Whale took to write. The interviewer made the point that there was about a decade’s worth of research in the book. I laughed at this. Because he wasn’t wrong, but it had been written in just under two years.

How? Monomaniacal frenzy.

It was three years ago, in 2022, that I convinced Dan to come on board for Wake of the Whale.

I’d learned of the stations six months previously, and had been mulling over it. I’d just signed the contract for Milk, it was in the middle of the pandemic, and I was home alone with a 2 year old, so writing another book wasn’t at the top of my list. And yet, and yet.

I was writing new and strange prose, unsure of what it would become, if it would become anything at all. There were shifts happening in my life, creatively and otherwise, and I wanted to commit my energy to two things outs…