HOTSHOT Book Cover Reveal!

My book is coming out in August 2025!!!! It has a cover!

Many of you have been on the wild ride of my book revision process for the past four(!!) years. I am thrilled to announce that I now have a solid pub date, links for pre-order, and a (beautiful) COVER!

In 2019 I was working 50 hours a week as a nanny in Seattle. I didn't have stable housing and my life was up in the air, but I spent the dark early mornings and all of my weekends working on a book proposal. Over the next nearly six(!) years this book was the only constant in my life. From Seattle to Czechia to pet-sitting in Europe, moving back to Seattle during Covid, nannying and freelancing and spinal surgery and two and a half years of my PhD, I worked on writing and revising this book- the story of my life as a hotshot and the historical impacts of fire suppression in the United States. It's intimate, revealing, honest, and deeply researched.

Grove Atlantic did such a wonderful job crafting the cover of my dreams. I never imagined I'd be on the cover of my own book- but there I am, …