I thought I’d share with you (a slightly adapted) part of the introduction to a book I co-wrote with my husband, Frank Hajek, in 2006. The book is no longer officially for sale, though used copies are being offered on Amazon (amusingly, one is listed at a bargain price of US$ 263.64!). We have soft cover and hardback versions at home, in Spanish and English, which we sell at conferences or give away to otter researchers. Giants of the Madre de Dios is richly illustrated with

Let me introduce you to ‘The Pigeonhole Experience’. The Pigeonhole is a digital publishing platform offering an innovative product: a reading experience that is serialised, social, and interactive. Users read and comment on the text as it is released in “staves” – bite-sized instalments – and each serialisation is accompanied by bonus content, such as interviews and maps. Readers are also able to leave comments for each other and for the author within the text itself. The Pi

Isn’t this something lots of people, lots of writers, dream of having? A quiet, rustic refuge from our hectic, digital lives? A place rooted in wilderness where our muses thrive? Well, I’m penning this now in our own cabin in the woods. Except it’s not made of logs, but of adobe. And it’s not in the woods, but on a hillside at the fringe of Cusco city, Peru, surrounded by smallholdings and other traditional agricultural plots. The cabin consists of one bedroom with a double b