Still on Hiatus...But Here's an Update Anyway.

In the spirit of becoming French, I'll be MIA this first week of August.

Bonjour, my devoted Substack subscribers. It’s Monday, and this week I will again miss my regular newsletter—my apologies. My family and I have been moving across the globe these past few weeks, from Bend, Oregon, to Nantes, France, and we’re still working on integrating into French society. In our first week, we managed to find and finalize a place to live, get some wheels, get a phone, and start to put together a new life. But there’s still much to do. Unfortunately, this process has taken me away from my work life and will continue to do so in the immediate future until we find childcare.

We’ve moved to Western France, close to the locations in my books, in the hopes of making a life for ourselves in pursuit of our passions. So far, so good. For those of you who don't follow me on social media, I recently attended my first book fair on the island of Noirmoutier. It was a privilege to be there with the other authors of my family: my father, Jean-Michel Adrien (the first of us to pub…