Right now my agent is shopping it around. I’m not sure when my next book will be published. When will your next book be published? Please make sure it also will be in large print, if possible. It’s not passable during winter months because of heavy snow and avalanche danger and is sometimes very hot on the exposed slopes in the middle of a summer day. It’s a tough hike, eight miles round trip, with well over 3800′ feet of elevation gain, all uphill one way, all downhill on the trip back to the parking lot. The views are fantastic just about all the way up but especially terrific at the top. He lives in North Bend, Wa., with his wife and their emergency back-up cat.īelow is the old fire lookout at the top of Granite Mountain near Snoqualmie Pass. Black Hearts and Slow Dancing was named one of the ten best thrillers of the year by the New York Times. His books have been nominated for the Edgar Award for best mystery of the year and he’s won the Shamus for best private eye novel. Earl was a firefighter in Seattle for over 32 years. He has also written a number of thrillers with fire department backgrounds. He is best known for his Thomas Black private eye series set in Seattle. Xywrite, sadly, went out of business.Įarl Emerson has been publishing mysteries and thrillers since 1985.

It allows the keyboard to be customized and has a redline function I use every day. WordPerfect, which I use now, is a close second. Xywrite, my favorite wordprocessing program of all time. Box under the monitor to elevate it for bad neck.

Points of interest: Heating pad on chair for bad back.

Help Wanted by Earl Emerson