The Notebook

Notes from the Bench

Open tickets, repair stories, research rabbit holes, and dispatches from Gault Mills.

All Craft Stories Almanac Repair Log Behind the Book

Stylized panoramic illustration of main street sunrise in Gault Mills.

BEHIND THE BOOK · AUGUST 4, 2026 · 2 MIN READ

Fixed to Death Is Out Today

Fixed to Death is out today on Kindle, the first Repair Café Mystery. A fair-play cozy where every clue is on the page before it matters.

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Archive · August 2026

Nothing on the bench for that — try another word.

Reading paths

Curated trails through the notebook

New here? Start at the bench

What this notebook is, and the ideas the whole book rests on.

Building Gault Mills

The invented town, board by board — its river, its mill, its streets.

Broken things on the bench, and what their wear quietly confesses.

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01 Four Fields on Every TicketCraft · 4 min 02 The Staples in the FiddleStories · 15 min 03 Reading WearCraft · 3 min

Fixed to Death book cover

Out August 4 · Pre-order now

Fixed to Death

A retired failure analyst reads the broken things her town brings in — and when a death gets called an accident, she knows better. The first Repair Café Mystery.

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