"Pike Place" novel -- galley proofs

Welcome to the Pike Place blog! The release date of Pike Place has been set: August 17, 2007 -- which is the 100th anniversary of Seattle's Pike Place Market.

We looked over the galley proofs this weekend and the book is about ready to go to print. We double-checked the chronology, which seems to be straightforward, but is a little tricky. The book opens in Pike Place Market in 1985, then goes back to 1971 and 1972 Richland and Seattle, Washington, and then ends where it started.

The cover has really come alive, especially with the adding of the pine trees behind the famous Public Market sign. We watched Sleepless in Seattle last week, and Tom Hanks and Rob Reiner walk down the street toward this sign -- the sign is also used in several episodes of Grey's Anatomy.

Even though I grew up in Washington, I'm learning more about it each day. In the coming days/weeks/months -- up to the release of Pike Place -- and then after it, I will share some of the interesting things that I uncover from the past as well as new things discovered each day about Seattle, Pike Place Market, and the wonderful Pacific Northwest.

M.