‘Deception at the Diamond D Ranch’ featured in Sun Valley area newspaper
For 10 years in my 20s and 30s, I worked at Idaho’s most award-winning small newspaper, the Idaho Mountain Express. The paper serves Sun Valley, Ketchum, Hailey and other central Idaho communities, and my journey as both a reporter and writer was molded considerably by the experiences I accumulated there.
My official job titles ranged from reporter to assistant editor, but the news beat I maintained throughout my tenure there centered on public land and environmental issues. I suppose for a kid from the east coast, I was smitten with Idaho’s abundance of public land and wild, roiling rivers. But I loved writing about those issues for more concrete reasons, too. Environmental issues connect people, economics, politics, biology, sociology, geology and other frameworks and filter them through the land and water around us, and that’s a form of storytelling I learned to love. Without question, it continues to inform themes in my ongoing work.
So you can imagine that I was flattered this week when the Idaho Mountain Express became the first newspaper to write a story about my new mystery, Deception at the Diamond D Ranch. Written by reporter Joey Thyne, the article was more of a feature than I expected, and I’m grateful for the additional exposure. During our interview, Thyne asked about my experience as a carpenter and tile setter, and how those related to my writing. It’s a good question, and one I’d pondered before.
Read more about that conversation about building houses and stories in Thyn’s May 6, 2022 story at mtexpress.com (the full link is pasted below).