Book & Bramble - August & September 2025
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, In the blink of an eye, it’s autumn again. I’m afraid I’ve fallen rather far behind in my updates from the Island,...
Book & Bramble - A WIDOW'S CHARM Cover Reveal!
Book Cover Reveal!
Book & Bramble - July 2025
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, It’s high summer here on Epekwitk, and my weeks have been full of the bustle of gardening and museum programs. Safe...
Book & Bramble - June 2025
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, Today is my birthday! 42 and still determined to stick her face in the lilacs even though she's allergic. It’s been...
Book & Bramble - January 2025
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, I’ve missed writing to you. I needed some time at the end of 2024 to come to terms with what a momentous year it...
Book & Bramble - October and November 2024
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, I’ll ask you to cast your mind back to the beginning of October, when there were still zinnias in bloom and...
Book @ Bramble - August & September 2024
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, Before dusk this evening, I went out and gathered up all the remaining peppers and cucumbers. I rounded up any...
Book & Bramble - June & July 2024
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, From my writing desk, I have a view of the garden. It’s been a slow start to the growing season here, and it feels...
Book & Bramble - Special Announcement!
A Letter From Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, I'm going to be a published novelist!!! My debut novel, A Widow's Charm, will be published in the spring of 2026!...
Book & Bramble - April & May 2024
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, In the blink of an eye, two months have passed. Here on the Island, we have gone from winter to (still rather...
Book & Bramble - March 2024
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, In a lot of ways, this March felt like a month of waiting. Waiting for various professional shenanigans to be...
Book & Bramble - February 2024
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, This month, winter came upon the Island with a vengeance, burying us under a veritable mountain of snow. The drifts...
Book & Bramble - January 2024
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, The first letter of a new year ought to be a fresh start full of possibility, but I have to admit that this...
Book & Bramble - November & December 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, It’s unseasonably warm on the Island and we’re battening the hatches for a wind storm that’s heading up the coast...
Book & Bramble - October 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, A mere week ago it still felt like the end of summer here on the Island. Since then, we’ve had our first snow and...
Book & Bramble - September 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, I realize it’s a bit late to ask you to cast your mind back to September, but here we are. I honestly can’t believe...
Book & Bramble - August 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, This morning, I sat on the front porch and watched summer sidle into fall. We had a very rainy August, but the...
Book & Bramble - June & July 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, Where has the summer gone? June slipped away from me and suddenly it’s the end of July, and I haven’t written to...
Book & Bramble - May 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, Greetings from an Island where it is maybe finally starting to feel like summer! I’ve delayed sending out May’s...
Book & Bramble - April 2023
A Letter from Caitlyn Paxson Dear Reader, For some reason it feels like an exceptionally long time since I last wrote to you! Maybe it’s because I travelled...