The summer of 2024 was a strange one for me. I spent it at the Rainbow Gatherings in the Plumas National Forest. I was out there maybe 7 weeks. Here is the irony.
My novel was published in 2020 and the primary story unfolds in 1990. A large part of the novel takes place at a gathering style event. Other settings are San Francisco and California’s north coast.
Because it was a work of fiction, I choose the Plumas National Forest for the setting of the gathering style get together because there had never been a national (July 4th) Rainbow Gathering there. I also identified places in the Plumas that would be suitable for a gathering, and it was easy access for my protagonists to travel there (with Sapphire hitchhiking).
When a friend of mine was looking at maps in the fall of 2023 trying to find a place for a potential gathering in California this summer, he tried to find the location of my fictional gathering on the topo maps with no success.
Yet this summer, the July 4th Rainbow Gatherings took place in the Plumas National Forest. If you were at either Meadow 1 or 2, you might have gotten a free copy of the novel as I brought a few cases to give away. If so, I hope you read and enjoyed it.
If you did not get a free copy, you can buy the ebook online at the usual places.
Or if you like print books, get the special pricing now through December 21st.
I don’t really make any money off the sale of this book, I just want people to read it and learn there are many paths through the woods and maybe you might like this one.
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