I'm happy to say my new book, The Slickrock Desert: Journeys of Discovery in an Endangered American Wilderness, is hot off the presses. Besides the usual distribution channels (Amazon, Ingram, etc.), I'm excited to announce that Atenera Press (www.atenera.com) has signed a distribution agreement with Mountain Press of Missoula, Montana, a respected publisher of outdoor-related books for over 70 years. You may recognize them as the publisher of the series of Roadside Geology books covering numerous states. My book is also available in a number of retail bookstores, including Bright Side Bookshop in Flagstaff, Arizona and The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City. I encourage you to support any of these retailers, and if your local bookstore doesn't carry it, ask them to do so.
As I say in the book, reading about the desert is one thing, but to really get a feel for it, you need to get out and pay it a visit. If summertime in southern Utah isn't your thing, start planning a visit for October, my favorite month in the desert. Summer crowds are long gone, spring crowds won't be there for months. The days are comfortably warm, and the snows of winter have not yet arrived. It's a time of golden yellow cottonwoods and coral-colored cliffs blazoned against azure blue skies--the perfect time to explore a rugged land like no other on earth. Get out and enjoy it!
