Praise for Palmer
“The Booker Rebellion is a fresh, exciting adventure, a book that moves as fast and clear as a mountain creek. Susan Palmer knows the landscape of the Oregon Coast Range intimately, and she brings to the page all the beauty and danger of that country in rich detail, without slowing the wild ride for a moment. I couldn’t stop reading.”
— Molly Gloss, award-winning author of The Jump-Off Creek and Wild Life
“Prose that can hum alternately with the wry empathy of Barbara Kingsolver and the lyricism of Leslie Marmon Silko.”
— Sally Bishop Shigley, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
Coming from Sibylline Press · November 2026
The Booker Rebellion
Belinda Booker and her siblings Jack and Emmy know the forest around their home intimately, so they’re bound to notice when things change — big trees cut down, motorcycle tracks on trails meant for people, a stash of cash hidden under a log. When they stumble on a dead body, everything shifts. Reliable adults become threats. Home is no harbor. And wildfire is coming.
The Tabernacle Bar
Where did we come from? What should we do here? Where are we going when we shuffle off this mortal coil? If The Tabernacle Bar knows, it’s not saying. But its characters are happily and angrily and frustratingly wrestling with these questions, abetted sometimes by alcohol, sometimes by the best scriptures they can lay their hands on. Also, dreams, as though the subconscious knows anything. Published in 1997 by Signature Books. A few pristine copies remain. Shoot me a note if you’re interested.
