It’s a placid morning on scenic Hood Canal, a fjord near the Olympic Mountains in Washington State, and Debbie Macomber is at her weekend home, getting ready to go clam digging.

“The tide is low, which is fabulous,” Macomber cheerily says via Zoom. “The clams here are the size of butterflies and very abundant.” Hood Canal is 30 minutes from Port Orchard, where Macomber’s main residence and the offices of Debbie Macomber Inc. are located, and the author has invited her team to come out for the day. “We have 600 feet of beach property,” she says. “Everyone gets a pail and boots and a rake with a claw on it. We’re going to dig for clams and have pizza. It’ll be fun.”

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