News & Updates from Eileen Garvin

I struggle with summer. It’s too…summery. I know it works for others, but for me, I sort of white-knuckle it.

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When I was about twelve years old, my father gave me a copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People by self-help expert Dale Carnegie. I remember him saying I might find it interesting and offering no further information. He walked away, leaving me standing in the hallway with the book in my hands.

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Only a few pages into The Ferryman and His Wife, I was heartbroken that this story would ever end. With his spare, beautiful prose, Frode Grytten made me homesick for a landscape I’ve never seen—the remote and wintry fjords of Norway. Gorgeous and devastating in its simplicity, The Ferryman and His Wife takes us to the heart of things—life and how we live it but also how we leave it.

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I'm honored to be the inaugural guest writer for a new creative retreat at House on the Metolius in Central Oregon October 23-27.

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I’m really looking forward to sharing my new novel, Bumblebee Season, with readers in April 2026.

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I’d come to think of the Denver International Airport as purgatory long before this moment. I’m so accustomed to getting stranded there that my girlfriends and I alert each other when we’re passing through in hopes that when we get stuck, one of our group will be there too and can meet up to pass the time. This has happened not infrequently.

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My heartiest thanks to all the wonderful folks who hosted and supported Crow Talk’s paperback release this spring.

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Join me at these live events to celebrate the paperback edition of my nationally bestselling novel, Crow Talk.

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Join me for an intimate writing retreat October 23-27, 2025 in Central Oregon.

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I get to visit Mexico every winter and I look forward to morning swims in the Sea of Cortez. I only swam once this winter. I was tormented by some invisible sea creatures that left painful welts all over my arms and torso. Other obstacles arose—big surf, early wind, cold temperatures. The barriers piled up.

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Spring is just around the corner and I’m looking forward to celebrating the paperback release of CROW TALK with events around the West.

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When the new year begins, I always find myself wishing for an extra month. Wouldn’t it be great to have a full month between December and January? But there’s no such thing. Now 2025 continues to hurtle by with hardship everywhere—wildfires, wars, and in our nation’s capital, a pending transition that has the world on edge.

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There are specific endings in these waning days of the year—a first draft, my early fifties, and the conclusion of various chapters in my life. I’m in the middle of other things—puppydom most prominently.

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My new book has official fledged into the world and is (hopefully) flying into the hands of readers. If your book club is reading Crow Talk and you'd like me to pop in, drop me a line.

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Mark your calendars for April 30 from 6 p.m. to p.m. at The Ruins in Hood River.

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I’m thrilled to be doing an in-person book tour for Crow Talk this spring. Hope you can join me at one of these events in conversation with wonderful authors and supported by fabulous indie booksellers.

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I struggled with change as a child and continued to do so as an adult—moving, new jobs, saying goodbye to friends. Not to mention the ultimate goodbyes—the death of loved ones, human and other.

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Pre-order Crow Talk for the holiday season and Waucoma Bookstore will print you a certificate to give to your loved one this holiday season to let them know it is on the way.

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CROW TALK is now available for pre-order wherever you buy books. For a signed, personalized copy, order from my terrific independent bookseller Waucoma Books.

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