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Nancy's Bookshelf: Local authors share their tales of Chico and Paradise

Craig Heath’s fictional Eden Ridge, featured in his novel Killing "Buddhas: An Eden Ridge Story" is based on Paradise, California, where he formerly resided.

Additionally, Chico gardener Jeremy Miller shares his successes and failures with a sense of humor in "Slugs Don’t Eat Arugula: Tales of Whimsy, Woe, and Wisdom from the Kitchen and Garden."

Plus, Chico humorist Eric Miller tells the story of how a “Cross Country Rode Trip Tests Family’s Harmony”

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Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.