How to Make a Pot in 14 Easy Lessons.

Joe and Lucy are an unlikely couple. Joe is better at communicating with clay than people and is deeply rooted to his pottery studio in the North Cascade Mountains. Lucy, an actress, has worked hard to build a career on stage and perhaps harder to avoid getting entangled in love, driven by an old fear. And yet, like the undeniable call of making art for a living, something drives them to believe they can make their relationship work. Helped by the cast of quirky characters who come to buy Joe’s pottery, and the beauty of the natural world around them, Lucy starts to see a role for herself in the mountains. Joe’s wood-firing kiln may not always be dependable, but his love for her is. However the tight-knit community that surrounds him is an entirely different kind of audience than she’s used to, and when Joe asks for a commitment, something Lucy feels she can never promise, they both find their emotions spinning like a pot on a wheel.How to Make a Pot in 14 Easy Lessons is about clay and love and the surprising unpredictability of both.

Nicola Pearson is an award-winning playwright, author of two Callum Lange mysteries and the children's book, The Lost Hour, with Maya Keegan. She lives in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State with her potter husband, two dogs and several chickens. You can find her blog on Wordpress.