The Woodcutter was the story that “launched” my career, so it seemed the right book to send on this very special payload to the moon.  In 2009, it won the Garcia Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year, the Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy in the Indie Book Awards, and 1st Place in the Reader Views Reviewers Choice Awards.  It was rejected for five years by publishers and agents, and then, at the dawn of the e-book, I self-published it, and began an incredible journey.  Forty-three books, two pen names, a television option, and a play going to NYC and London later, this year marks my twelfth year as an author.  And it all began with this book.  It was picked up by Amazon’s 47North publishing house and hundreds of thousands of people have now enjoyed my story.

The Woodcutter celebrates the best of humanity and draws from the fairytales and folklore that have shaped our culture for the past six-hundred (or more) years.  But most of all, The Woodcutter is about the generosity of the human heart and its enormous capacity to love, which I think is a universal story we humans enjoy hearing again and again.  If you’re reading this, I hope you fall in love with The Woodcutter, too.