Where is Spearfish Lake?

I get asked this question a lot. If you really want to know where Spearfish Lake is, it's about three inches behind my eyeballs. It's totally imaginary. It doesn't exist in the real world. Persons, places, and events are totally my creation and should not be assumed to have a basis in fact. That much said, there is a real-world Spearfish Lake in Washington State, I think, but it has nothing to do with these Spearfish Lake stories. The fishing there is supposed to be pretty decent, though.

If it were in the real world, where would it be?

You're going to make this difficult, aren't you? That's not an easy question. We know Spearfish Lake is in the Midwestern northern forest country, which stretches from northern Lower Michigan up through northern Minnesota, and I've tried to include elements of each. If you absolutely have to imagine it on a map, put it around Iron Mountain or Crystal Falls, Michigan, with Green Bay being Camden. Now, Iron Mountain or Crystal Falls are not Spearfish Lake and never have been; it's just that if Spearfish Lake were real, it might be located around there somewhere. Or it might not be.

How about Bradford? Where's that?

Bradford, which comes into play in some stories, is located in Southern Michigan, the first exit off I-67 north of the Indiana border. It's totally fictional, but located a little more firmly than Spearfish Lake (There is no real-life I-67.) It includes elements of a lot of places in the region.

Do you have hardcopy books for sale?

Yes! All books are available in hardcopy through Lulu.com. Occasionally there may be other things such as calendars for sale there.

By any chance are you the Wes Boyd of MoveOn.org?

No, although I still get some of his e-mail directed my way. I never was a fan of After Dark, the screen saver that made him his money, either; the one computer I tried it on locked up so bad I thought I was going to have to reformat the hard drive. And besides . . . flying toasters? What were they smoking?