Field Notes.
David Aucsmith’s New Novels: The Spanish Pendant and The Vitruvian Man
In one novel, a veteran of the British Army discovers a valuable antique pendant that leads him, through family history, to the Iberian Peninsula under Napoleon's invasion. In another novel, a young man named Vitruvius discovers after an assassination a coded message...
Publication of Natalia Molina’s A Place at the Nayarit
The CEC is proud to announce the publication of Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (University of California Press).This project is a social history of the Echo Park community in Los Angeles, specifically the...
We’re Growing!
The CEC is proud to announce the addition of three new editors to our team: Gillian Jerome in Vancouver, Will Sweger in Seattle, and Damon Barta in Spokane. Our founding members—Matthew Bennett, Judith Scholes, and Lucia Lorenzi—primarily edit academic, fiction, and...
Water from the Deepest Well
When my font of energy for writing and editing runs dry, I sometimes turn to ancient words. With the publication of Cascadia Editors Collective member Gillian Jerome’s book of poems, titled Red Nest, and the continued success of Madeline Miller’s novel Circe, I...
Retrospective in the South Seattle Emerald
After attending the protests in Seattle, such as the Capitol Hill Organizing Protest at Cal Anderson Park, I decided to write up some reflections on the mass movement. From conversations on the protest, it became clear to me that people didn't understand where the...
Getting the Words Out
A few years into editing full-time, I came to realize that the publication process bewildered most of my writers. Not only did they not know what hoops to jump through, they very often didn’t know that editors could help them in the leaping. I was in a similar...