Buxton's Books

Gone Geezers is my first cozy mystery!  Is watching tons of old mysteries on TV enough to make you a detective?  A trio of octogenarians who spend their leisure time at Seaside’s Golden Shores Retirement Villa watching hours of BritBox will soon find out!

The Seagull’s Nest is a family saga, a beach read, and a most unusual coming-of-old-age story when a lonely widower considers tossing it all away to purchase a run-down motel in Seaglass Cove on the Oregon Coast.

Keeler Creek Days is a Lake Wobegon-ish community holding an annual festival, complete with a tug-of-war, battle of the bands, a bake-off, adultery, unexpected nudity, teen angst, criminal mischief, and a belligerent Roosevelt elk.

Heavy Rotation takes a Magic Carpet Ride back to the sixties and the days of dreamers, schemers, and rock & roll screamers.  Relive the glory days of AM radio to discover how “Boss Jock” Gary Arizona got his (less than stellar) start at KMFR in Maple Falls, OR.

Rhymes with “Luck” is a sexy, funny anti-romance story that considers: “Can a single word be the catalyst for joy and despair, and then everything that follows?” as a college professor wrestles with a midlife crisis while being torn between two lovers.

Hidden World is the first local anthology, and I'm in here (twice)!

Your neighbors have secrets. Extraordinary ones.

Seventeen writers from Columbia County, Oregon, reveal the hidden worlds living right next door—worlds tucked inside lighted fairy trees and buried beneath nondisclosure agreements that hide the impossible. Worlds hidden in the minds of artists and authors, fantasy realms and even in plain sight.

Hidden World gathers award-winning and multi-published authors alongside six debut voices from the St. Helens Writers Guild and the Scappoose Library Writing Group. These twenty-seven stories, poems, and essays range from whimsical flash fiction to haunting fantasy, from backyard surprises to insightful revelations.

Some will make you laugh. Others will linger in your mind long after you close the book. All of them prove that the most remarkable stories are being written in the most ordinary places—by the people who live just down the street.

Step inside. The extraordinary has been waiting next door all along.