Brooks Yeager’s – First novel, Chilly Winds, won the American ¬ Fiction award for best adventure novel in 2021. Before trying his hand at ¬fiction, Brooks campaigned for wildlife and wilderness, negotiated global environmental agreements at the State Department, and consulted on environmental issues with the World Bank and the Arctic Council. His conservation career took him all over the world, from Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and the Russian Far East. These days Brooks and his wife Cindy Shogan enjoy life on the island of Chincoteague, on the Atlantic coast of Virginia. When he’s not writing, he likes to play guitar, watch birds, read philosophy and obscure books of history, and listen to all kinds of music.
Those of us who enjoy reading the old fashioned way do so in part because we love browsing. We roam the shelves of bookstores and
Chilly Winds readers know how important music is to the book, and to Taz Blackwell, the book’s principal character. Taz is a musician himself, and musical scenes and settings are important markers in his life and in his community.
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