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{Contents} heritage house 2 rmbo | r Cky mountain books 14 touChwood editions 26 greystone books 40 agenCy titles 58 heritage house 62 Selected Highlights rmbo | r Cky mountain books 66 Selected Highlights touChwood editions 70 Selected Highlights greystone books 74 Selected Highlights agenCy Clients 78 Selected Highlights index 80 heritage house On the Rocks with Jack Knox Islanders I Will Never Forget Jack Knox A captivating collection of Jack Knox’s most memorable, heart- warming, inspiring, and off-beat human-interest stories. Praise for Jack Knox: “Canada needs more Knox!”—Will Ferguson “Knox is the most underrated writer in Canada.”—Les Leyne “There are a few key secrets to a happy life in Victoria—avoiding downtown when the cruise ships are in, knowing exactly how late you can get to the ferry terminal, and reading Jack Knox.”—Mark Leiren-Young From bestselling author and beloved columnist Jack Knox comes a new col- lection of unforgettable true stories about the people who shape the unique Local Interest (BC) / Human Interest culture of Vancouver Island and its surrounding areas. Full of humanity, Heritage House Publishing • November 2018 5.5 × 8.5, 224 pages, b&w photographs throughout heart, and sometimes humour, On the Rocks with Jack Knox celebrates ordin- 9781772032666 • softcover • $19.95 ary people who have extraordinary stories to tell. From Alban Michael, the Ebook also available Author’s home: Victoria, BC, Canada last person on Earth to speak Nuchatlaht, to Diana Deans, the Port Angeles RIGHTS HELD: World, all languages customs inspector who caught the Millennium Bomber, to Victoria’s Rudi BISAC: SOC000000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Hoenson, who survived a Japanese labour camp and the atomic bomb at SOC041000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays Nagasaki to become one of the happiest souls you’ll ever meet, the people in SOC053000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies this fascinating volume represent all walks of life. Elders, heroes, criminals, MARKETING & PROMO: • Regional and subject specific print features, and oddballs are all worthy subjects in the world of Jack Knox. excerpts, review coverage, broadcast and television interviews Jack Knox is the author of two bestselling humour books, Hard Knox: Musings from • Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the Edge of Canada and Opportunity Knox: Twenty Years of Award-Losing Humour author’s speaking engagements Writing, both based on his popular column at the Victoria Times Colonist. Both books • Outreach to subject specific organizations, markets and festivals were long-listed for the Leacock Medal for Humour. Knox’s career highlights include • Blogger outreach, online ads and social being blasted with blowhole spray by Luna the orca whale, interviewing a nude porn media campaigns star, and getting a phone call from Barack Obama four days before the 2008 presi- • Regional author tour dential election. In his spare time he performs in a rock ’n’ roll band with members • Electronic ARCs of his Tour de Rock cycling team. • Electronic blads OF RELATED INTEREST Hard Knox Opportunity Knox 9781772031492, $19.95 9781772032086, $19.95 2 heritagehouse.Ca heritage house The Codfish Dream Chronicles of a West Coast Fishing Guide David Giblin A colourful portrait of life in an eccentric fishing village on the BC coast. After spending fifteen years as a fishing guide on the bC coast, David Giblin decided that the offbeat people and places he’d encountered during that colourful period in his life had to be preserved. Like any good fish- ing story, wherein the fish seem to grow faster after they are dead, the forty-seven interconnected narratives in what eventually became The Codfish Dream took on a life of their own. The result is a series of hilarious, strange, keenly observed, true (or mostly true) stories of Giblin’s experien- ces. These whimisical tales are held together by a thread of international intrigue that affects everyone in the small community of Stuart Island Local Interest (BC) / Maritime over one eventful summer, when Fbi agents visit the island to investigate Heritage House Publishing • September 2018 insider trading. The Codfish Dream is an unforgettable book imbued with 5.5 × 8.5, 288 pages 9781772032420 • softcover • $19.95 an undeniable sense of place and time. Ebook also available Author’s home: Cobble Hill, BC, Canada David Giblin worked for fifteen years as a salmon fishing guide on Stuart Island, RIGHTS HELD: World, all languages roughly forty miles east of Campbell River—a fertile environment for the incubation of BISAC: great fishing stories. As an unpublished manuscript, The Codfish Dream was a finalist HUM021000 HUMOR / Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional in the Cedric Literary Awards in the creative non-fiction category. Also a visual artist, BIO026000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Giblin lives in Cobble Hill, BC. Memoirs BIO002000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General MARKETING & PROMO: • Regional and subject specific print features, excerpts and review coverage • Outreach to subject specific organizations, markets and festivals • Blogger outreach, online ads and social media campaigns • Excerpts available • Electronic ARCs OF RELATED INTEREST Beckoned by the Sea The Fisher Queen A Gillnet’s Drift 9781772031799, $19.95 9781927051535, $17.95 9781927527719, $17.95 heritagehouse.Ca 3 heritage house Out of the Woods Woodworkers along the Salish Sea Pirjo Raits; photography by Dale Roth and Michele Ramberg A breathtaking art book profiling twenty-six wood carvers, sculptors, and artisans who draw inspiration from the natural beauty of the Salish Sea. The Salish Sea inspires artists working in many mediums, but there is Local Interest (BC) / Art & Photography no greater representation of the symbiotic relationship between natural Heritage House Publishing • October 2018 environment and creative energy than woodworking. Out of the Woods profiles 11 × 8.5, 224 pages, colour and b&w photographs throughout twenty-six dynamic artists who use wood to create an amazing range of work. 9781772032604 • softcover with flaps • $34.95 Among them is Pheobe Dunbar, a carver who searches for hidden treasures Ebook not available Author’s home: Sooke, BC, Canada among logging waste to create one-of-a-kind bowls and vessels. Charles Elliott, Photographer’s home: Calgary, AB, Canada a member of the T’sartlip First Nation, is a world-renowned carver and tireless Photographer’s home: Calgary, AB, Canada RIGHTS HELD: World, all languages advocate for Coast Salish art. Mike Randall is a west coast modernist who BISAC: creates furniture and lighting that is minimal in size but large on impact. ART015040 ART / Canadian ART026000 ART / Sculpture & Installation Carey Newman, son of a Kwakwaka’wakw master carver, takes a contemporary HOM018000 HOUSE & HOME / Woodworking approach to his work yet always yields to traditional ways and values. MARKETING & PROMO: Although they have diverse backgrounds and practices, these woodworkers • Regional and subject specific print features, excerpts, review coverage, broadcast and place importance on sustainability, preservation of wild places, and respect television interviews for natural materials. Featuring exquisite photography of the artists in their • Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author’s speaking engagements studios, and full-colour images of their works, Out of the Woods is a stunning • Outreach to subject specific organizations, display of skill, creativity, and the depth of artistic talent along the Salish Sea. markets and festivals • Blogger outreach, online ads and social Pirjo Raits is an award-winning, editor, journalist, and freelance writer, whose work media campaigns • Outreach to travel and tourism organizations has appeared in Soar, Boulevard, and Tweed magazines as well as several Black Press • Excerpts available publications. She has won numerous national and provincial newspaper awards for • Electronic ARCs her stories and photographs. Raits was editor of the Sooke News Mirror for ten years, • Electronic blads before retiring in 2015. Dale Roth and Michele Ramberg established Roth and Ramberg Photography in 1993. Since then, they have amassed an impressive roster of clients, specializing in portraits of people in their own environments. Their commercial clients include Bayer, BCIT, Bechtel, Bell, Calgary Zoo, Dupont, Enbridge, and Honda. In 2017, Roth and Ramberg were honoured by the Applied Arts Awards, in the Complete Calendar, Sports, and Portrait Photography categories. Visit rothandramberg.com. OF RELATED INTEREST Out of Concealment Sonny Assu Totem Poles 9781772031607, $29.95 9781772031706, $34.95 9781894974448, $19.95 4 heritagehouse.Ca heritage house heritagehouse.Ca 5 heritage house A Not-So-Savage Land The Art and Times of Frederick Whymper, 1838–1901 Peter Johnson A richly illustrated exploration of the art, life, and historical impact of artist Frederick Whymper, who documented the landscape of the North American west. Before the advent of photography, the landscape of colonial North America was visually recorded by travelling artists hired to reproduce what they saw with unadulterated realism. Throughout the 1860s, British-born Frederick Local Interest (BC) / Art History Whymper sketched his way from California to British Columbia, Yukon, Heritage House Publishing • October 2018 Alaska, and Siberia. 8.5 × 9, 256 pages, photographs, illustrations and maps throughout Whymper was the first to sketch the Fraser River route from New 9781772032208 • softcover with flaps