Changing the pace

Two paths diverged in a northern woods — one lined with pines and the other with birches. For the last few months, I’ve taken the one with pines and cedars as I’ve been writing about saunas. 

 Now it’s time to walk the other one — a portage trail voyageurs might have taken carrying their birch bark canoes. 

A novel about a French-Canadian teen becomes a voyageur and spends a winter in the fur trade. The working title for manuscript has been “Good for Nothing,” but that will change soon. The novel, a long-time project that my mom and I have worked on, will be published in mid-September. On that web site — NikkiRajala.com — you can find Chapter 1, a blog (A Voyageur’s Life) and a whole lot more. Visit me, bookmark it, subscribe to the blog, “like” it on Facebook, share it with others ... 

So for the next while, I plan only to post weekly on SaunaWise (and perhaps even less) as I juggle the new aspects of author events. Yes, I’ll miss this, but I’ll be back.

Nikki 

Buy a copy of Some Like It Hot: The Sauna, Its Lore and Stories from the publisher, North Star Press of St. Cloud, Minnesota, Inc., or from local booksellers. 

You will soon be able to purchase a copy of “Good for Nothing” from North Star Press, but not for a while yet.

For a signed copy of either book, send $20 (which includes tax and shipping costs) to: Nikki Rajala, P.O. Box 372, Rockville, Minnesota 56369.