Karl and I and our pets have moved all or part of our household (and our 26,000 pounds of books!) at least half a dozen times since we left California, 20 years ago, and headed east to live in Washington DC and Europe.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA:

The HOUSES page begins, appropriately, with some photos of my wonderful tree house — “then and now” — where I wrote my first two books by night and on weekends during the 1980s — The Eight and A Calculated Risk — while I was working by day at the Bank of America.

The tree house sits on an estate in Sausalito, California, the first little village just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. It overlooks the Sausalito Yacht Harbor, Angel Island, Tiburon Island, and the expanse of San Francisco Bay. You can see the sun come up each morning over Oakland, far across the Bay. The house is still surrounded by acacia trees, with ancient eucalyptus trees growing though the decks.

In celebration of the publication of The Fire ( sequel to The Eight) the gracious current owners of the property have let me rent the treehouse for a year, so that I could begin writing my new book while staying there!

FORTHCOMING HOUSES:

Virginia, Washington DC, New Mexico…

Interior of Tree house in 1980s with original manuscript of THE EIGHT in foreground	1980s: Entrance to the Tree House	The Tree House in Sausalito, 2009
Relaxing on the Tree House deck	View from my desk at Tree House: Sausalito Yacht Harbor	Fawns frolicking on slope of the Tree House kitchen garden
Katherine's Kiva in Santa Fe, NM	My study in DC	My bookcase in DC