Welcome to Launch Month @Place & Thyme!

Hello, friends—

This is an exciting time for me, launching this new Substack project! I’m very glad you’ve joined me on this new journey, and I hope you found the August calendar in your inbox yesterday—if you didn’t, you can read it here.

As I’ve been saying for a while, this feels like the right time to begin something new in my writing life. Someone Always Nearby is on its way to the printer and China and I have just finished her 29th mystery (Forget Me Never, coming next spring). For more than three decades, the books, the newsletters (China’s Garden, All About Thyme) and the blogs (LifeScapes and BookScapes) have allowed me the privilege of exploring and sharing the ideas that engage so many of us: growing and using and learning about plants, living in place, crafting, reading, writing, and publishing.

And yes, it really is a privilege! I’ve especially enjoyed your comments and questions, first in the U.S. mail (remember that?) and then via email and online. But most of all, I enj…