Books about Arizona, Grand Canyon, Sedona, Four Corners
My first foray into nonfiction came in 1999 with an article for Arizona Highways, a beautiful magazine focusing on in-state travel. After a few years of writing articles focused on soft adventure, history, and culture for Arizona Highways and other magazines, a Flagstaff publisher offered me a thrilling opportunity: To write a travel book about Sedona.
In 2002 Northland Publishing released Sedona: Treasure of the Southwest. It was fun sorting through hundreds of gorgeous photographs for this book, many taken by Arizona Highways photographers. Northland followed up a year later with Four Corners: Timeless Lands of the Southwest, another dream project for me because so many of my favorite places are in Northern Arizona’s Indian country.
The next book I wrote for Northland was the Western National Parks' Lodges Cookbook, a fun project that gave me a chance to combine several of my favorite subjects—architecture, food, and history—at national parks from Grand Canyon to Mount Rainier. Chefs shared anecdotes about working in the parks (imagine finding a rattlesnake in your kitchen!), and each generously contributed signature recipes. Sadly, this was the last project I'd complete with Northland Publishing because this wonderful company closed their doors in 2007.
In 2011 I wrote Sedona & Red Rock Country, published by Rio Nuevo of Tucson, another regional publisher making beautiful books. They also published Arizona: Scenic Wonders of the Grand Canyon State, a collaboration of writers, editors (including me), and photographers.
Recently, I've published Moon travel guides, traditional guidebooks that include hotels, restaurants, prices, maps—basically all the details someone needs to plan a trip, from itineraries to safety tips. Though every project I've worked on during the past decade has been a chance to learn something new, writing Moon Grand Canyon and Moon Four Corners challenged my organizational skills. I also had to provide my own photos, so now—more than ever—I appreciate professional photographers!
If you can't find these regional titles at your local library or bookstore, you can order them directly from their publishers. You can also use Amazon's nifty Look Inside feature by linking from this page. (And if you decide purchase a book from these page links, I'll get a percentage—thank you!)
If you can't find these regional titles at your local library or bookstore, you can order them directly from their publishers. You can also use Amazon's nifty Look Inside feature by linking from this page. (And if you decide purchase a book from these page links, I'll get a percentage—thank you!)
