My highly anticipated (at least by me!) new book, The Hot Garden, is now on the shelves of local Arizona booksellers. With this book, I’m attempting to create a minor new religion, or at least a fervent cult, based on the worship of desert plants and design. No, I don’t want to be the charismatic leader of the group, but I’m okay if my new book serves as a canonical text. It is full of design and planting ideas from people who I consider the gurus of desert design and horticulture. You can join the sect by purchasing the new book.

My publisher, Rio Nuevo, gives local independent bookstores about a month to sell their new titles before they go out to the mass market (e.g. Amazon). The following Arizona independent stores have ordered copies. For out-of-state readers, B & B Cactus and Rainbow Gardens Bookshop both ship. 

Kartchner Caverns State Park, Benson

Singing Wind Book Shop, Benson

Book Shop, Green Valley

Meredith's Hallmark Shop, Green Valley

Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix

Pueblo Grande Museum Store, Phoenix

Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Superior

B & B Cactus Farm, Tucson

Harlow Gardens, Tucson

Native & Nature, Tucson

Rainbow Gardens Bookshop, Tucson

Sallie Sue's Gift Shoppe, Tucson

Tohono Chul Park Gift Shop, Tucson

Trail To Yesterday, Tucson

Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson

For Phoenix readers, it is rumored that Changing Hands Bookstore, the granddaddy of Phoenix independent booksellers, will have copies in stock very soon.