In 2007, my novel, THE PALE SURFACE OF THINGS, was published. The story was set on Crete, in and around Chania and the mountains behind it, and it required me to spend a joyous few weeks criss-crossing the mountains checking out the locations I wanted to use. I returned to Crete one time after the book came out, in part because I was thinking of writing a sequel to PALE SURFACE. I’m still thinking about it, but it seems less likely now, since Greece’s economic troubles have turned all the patterns of city-dwelling and farming upside down from what they seemed in 2008 when I thought about the sequel.