As book venues go, Coronado, California, is one that never gets old. Brimming with beaches, boats, shops, charming houses, funky trees, and regal hotels, it is a small town worthy of a story, if not two.
For that reason and more, I visited the town again, this time with an eye on the last book of the
Time Box series. Set mostly in Coronado in 1963, the book will apply the final touches to the Lane family saga.
Unlike in
The Memory Tree, where it got a passing mention, and in
Caitlin's Song, where it played second fiddle to Boulder, Colorado, Coronado will get star treatment. It will get the attention it deserved in the
Carson Chronicles books.
So in preparation for the Time Box finale, I scoured Coronado's library, walked its streets, and visited dozens of its businesses, including a 1950s diner that will be the setting for at least one chapter.
I got reacquainted with a town I now know as well as Wallace, Idaho, and Virginia City, Nevada, small towns portrayed in
The Fire and
The Fair. I hope to begin writing Time Box 5 in the fall.
In the meantime, I will complete Time Box 4. I plan to finish the first draft of
The Refuge, set in Hawaii in 1941, sometime in the next three weeks and publish it by July 15.
