My friend, A. Lynn Ash, launched her second book Sunday, Vagabonda: Solo Camper Out West, a memoir of her travels camping alone through the western US. Lynn and I belong to a small group of writers, mostly from the Eugene area, an offshoot of the Mid-Valley Willamette Writers. We get together for mutual support and the occasional critique. And several of us traveled together to the Women Writing the West Conference in early October. See “Conference Across the Mountains.”
An enthusiastic crowd came out to Lynn’s launch party at the lovely home of Vic and Linda Martin in Eugene.
Lynn read a short segment describing a stormy evening in the mountains with only a nosy bear for company. She seemed dubious about the bear’s intentions, and left us with a cliffhanger.
A happy Lynn shows off the cover of Vagabonda as she prepares to sign more books. She took the cover photo herself on one of her solo treks. That’s her shadow in the lower left corner. And she has more travel photos inside.
Lynn signs another book and shows a bit of appreciation for cover and book designer Seho Chon.
Lynn’s first book, The Route From Cultus Lake, led the reader on earlier jaunts across the country, while Vagabonda continues her travels, with details gleaned from the extensive journals she kept en route.
With the gift of her background in geography and years as a birder, she shares her adventures with depth and humor.
In naming the book, she saw herself as a female vagabond, thus Vagabonda.
I feel honored that she asked me to do the back jacket blurb.
Congratulations, Lynn, on launching your new book. A big day for a writer. Cheers!
Janet fisher 