The album, titled Sing With Me, Brother, For We Have Sinned, is finished and available on CD Baby. It’s a ten-song companion piece to the novel, and it turned out really well.

The book tour begins Monday, with an event at Powell’s Hawthorne here in Portland. Then I head to California, to read at the Why There Are Words series in Sausalito on June 13 and at Skylight Books in Los Angeles on June 17.

I’ll be playing songs from the record at all the stops. And if you come see me read and buy a book, I’ll give you a CD for free! Such a deal!