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Creating a Book: In the Range of Fire and Ice
Nearly four years ago I sent a short email to my friend Emily White, Acquisitions Editor at Mountaineers Book: “Might you have 20 to 30 minutes to chat about a book idea in the next week or two?” Thus began a relationship for the book that has become In the Range of Fire and Ice: A Human and Natural History of Washington’s Cascades, which Mountaineers Books will publish in September 2026.
I bring this up now because I turned in the page proofs—which is the first time an author sees a book laid out as it will be when published and basically the last time an author can make changes—of the book…
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