Join me at at downtown Olympia's esteemed Browsers Book Shop, where I'll read from the Introduction to Building Ghosts: A Month of Empty Commercial Properties in a Capital City, and the History that Haunts Them. I'll give an update (with a PowerPoint slide show) on the status of the locations I photographed in 2014, then lead an open discussion on the many issues my book touches on: from the ambiguity of accountability for urban blight to what desirable architecture looks like to the reasons why our city has changed the way it has over time.

Where: 107 Capitol Way N, Olympia, WA, 98501 (Upstairs)

Building Ghosts is available for sale at Browsers Books, Orca Books, and Last Word Books in Olympia; The Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle; Brilliant Moon Books in Shelton; Village Books in Bellingham; and at buyolympia.com. Also: The Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, and Evergreen libraries! And right here.