Deception Island at Spring Street Books

Deception Island is now available at Spring Street Books in Newport.

The novel is also available at Symposium Books in East Greenwich, Oatley's Country Store in North Kingstown, Emporium Books in Kingston, Books on the Square in Providence, and the Brown University Bookstore as well as on Amazon.com. 

Deception Island Penguins

Penguin chicks stay in creches, which are like big, raucous nursery schools with adult caretakers, while the parents go out fishing for dinner--mainly krill.  When the parents come back from a busy day at "work" the more assertive chicks (like the one in the photo) will chase the exhausted parent around until the parent feeds them.  This is a photo of a chinstrap chick on Deception Island taking regurgitated krill from its parents mouth.  (WARNING: Don't try this at home!)

My elderly Corgi Mindy

Mindy the Corgi is recovering from a back injury.  It's very stressful having a fragile pet.  Yesterday she had an acupuncture session with her vet at Wolf Rock.  It seems to have helped a bit.  Have any of you had success with the use of alternative medicine with your pets?

Penguins

Penguins!  One of my favorite animals.  They are very amusing and full of spunk.  The penguins in this picture are from the Brown University computer.  I'll download some pictures of penguins from my trip to Antarctica.  Penguins apparently think people are just another species of penguin, and they treated us as such during my trip to Antarctica.   Every day we  took the Zodiac to shore.  There were thousands of penguins!  They seemed to enjoy having people around and certainly weren't afraid of us. The Antarctic penguins always had the right-of-way.  When our paths crossed we had to wait while the penguins waddled by on their way to and from the water.

Deception Island

I'll be having an author signing at Books on the Square on Thursday, November 3rd from 7:00 to 9:00.  Hope to see you there!