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Spring 2019 Contents CONNECT Click Below to Navigate Subscribe to Newest Press Video, Audio, News, and More by Clicking on These Links Spring 2019 Contents CONNECT Click below to navigate Subscribe to NeWest Press video, audio, news, and more by clicking on these links: FRONTLIST THE MELTING QUEEN 3 FRONTLIST THE DEATH OF ANNIE THE WATER ITUNES PODCAST WITCHER BY LIGHTNING 4 FRONTLIST ONLY PRETTY DAMNED 5 FACEBOOK FRONTLIST ECHOLOCATION 6 TWITTER FRONTLIST MOLLY OF THE MALL: LITERARY LASS AND PURVEYOR OF FINE FOOTWEAR 7 COMPLETE LIST 8 DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION 12 CONTENTS | NeWest Press Spring 2019 | 2 Nunatak First The Melting Queen Fiction Series by Bruce Cinnamon # 48 Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Happy Melting Day! This Queen—a woman who presides over the Melting Day naughty love-and-hate spring carnival and who must keep the city’s spirits up “ letter to an imagined over the following winter. But this year, something has version of Edmonton is changed: a genderfluid ex-frat brother called River Runson fabulous, whether you know is named as Melting Queen. As River’s reign upends the every corner of the actual place or you’ve never been city’s century-old traditions, Edmonton tears itself in two, there. You will want to live in with progressive and reactionary factions fighting a war for Cinnamon’s city.” Edmonton’s soul. Ultimately, River must uncover the hidden ~ Todd Babiak, author of history of Melting Day, forcing Edmonton to confront the The Garneau Block and The dark underbelly of its traditions and leading the city into a Empress of Idaho new chapter in its history. Set amongst the landmarks “ and rituals of a magical Balancing satire with compassion, Bruce Cinnamon’s debut Edmonton, this fantasia novel combines history and magic to weave a splendid compels the reader to future-looking tale. look at our city—and the feminine forces that subtly but firmly guide it – in a new and thrilling way. The newest Melting Queen, whose gender is as fluid FICTION Bruce Cinnamon was born in Edmonton and as the green summer river ISBN 13 978-1-988732-50-3 grew up just downstream in Fort Saskatchewan, that weaves its way through BISAC: FIC066000, along the banks of the North Saskatchewan River. Edmonton’s rigid grid, FIC061000, FIC019000 He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing signifies transformation, 300 pp || 6 x 9” pb from the University of Alberta and a Master of rebirth, and reconciliation.” April 2019 || $20.95 Global Affairs from the University of Toronto. His ~ Darrin Hagen, author of favourite authors and literary influences include The Edmonton Queen Garth Nix, Haruki Murakami, Jorge Luis Borges, Rachel Carson, Thomas King, Tomson Highway, and Italo Calvino. FRONTLIST | NeWest Press Spring 2019 | 3 The Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning by Audrey J. Whitson Three years into the second millennium, Majestic, Alberta is a farm town dealing with low crop prices, international borders Majestic is depicted with closing to Canadian beef, and a severe drought. Older poetic complexity. Annie’s farmers worry about their way of life changing while young “ friends have a salt-of-the-earth people concoct ways to escape: drugs, partying, moving goodness, and Annie herself is away. Even the church is on the brink of closing. a faceted, compelling woman who emerges from personal When local woman Annie Gallagher is struck by lightning darkness to find her own while divining water for a well, stories of the town’s past, peace.” including that of Annie and the grandmother who taught her ~ Meg Nola, Foreword Reviews water witching, slowly emerge as everyone gathers for her funeral. The Death of Annie the Water “Witcher by Lightning reads as if Told through the varied voices of the townspeople and Annie it has come out of translation, herself, The Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning out of a language created and reveals Majestic to be a complex character in its own right, shared within a community both haunted and haunting. Here, Audrey J. Whitson has formed by geography, memory, written a novel of hard choices and magical necessity. and its own expedient, indefinable spirituality.” ~ Jennifer Quist, author of The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner FICTION Audrey J. Whitson’s first book, Teaching Places, ISBN 13 978-1-988732-47-3 a memoir about how the land teaches, was With humour and heart, BISAC: FIC019000, shortlisted for the Wilfred Eggleston Award, Whitson peels back the small- FIC068000, FIC061000 Grant MacEwan Author Award and “ ForeWord town preoccupations of a 300 pp || 5.5 x 8.5” pb Magazine Book of the Year (body/mind/spirit winning cast of characters. This April 2019 || $19.95 category). Short stories from her collecion The book is lyrical and lovely, a Glorious Mysteries were shortlisted for the stunning achievement.” Howard O’Hagan Award and longlisted for ~ Fran Kimmel, author of No the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Good Asking and The Shore Girl Award. Audrey lives in Edmonton. FRONTLIST | NeWest Press Spring 2019 | 4 Nunatak First Only Pretty Damned Fiction Series by Niall Howell # 49 Only Pretty Damned is a taut noir that takes you behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, This character driven murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to “spectacle lets us peek keep Rowland’s World Class Circus afloat for another behind the literal curtain season. When Toby, former trapeze artist turned of the theatre of the disgruntled clown, begins seeing Gloria, a young and strange. Deception and beautiful dancer longing for a bigger role under the desire drive the action spotlight, his hardboiled past resurfaces. Can he live in this unique who-done without Genevieve, his ex-trapeze partner and lover? it-thriller. The suspense What ruthless actions will he take to regain his position is visceral...” as the headlining act? And will Toby’s past repeat itself ~ Micheline Maylor, as he tries to untangle the ropes that bind him and author of Little take a leap to roaring applause? Only Pretty Damned Wildheart combines the pace and tone of James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice with the postwar circus A captivating, world of Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show On Earth. “engrossing, gothic noir that whisks the reader away and makes them feel as if they’re on the road with an old FICTION Niall Howell was born and raised in time travelling circus. ISBN 13 978-1-988732-53-0 Calgary, where he still resides. His The characters are BISAC: FIC050000, short fiction has been published in The FIC031020, FIC062000, complex, the prose rich, 248 pp || 5.5 x 8.5” pb Feathertale Review and FreeFall and he and riveting darkness April 2019 || $19.95 holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from abounds as the plot Mount Royal University, and a Bachelor of unfolds. A stellar debut Education from the University of Calgary. from Niall Howell.” He enjoys playing bass, and obsessively ~ A.J. Devlin, author of collects records and comics. Cobra Clutch FRONTLIST | NeWest Press Spring 2019 | 5 Echolocation by Karen Hofmann In this provocative collection of short stories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect Part Darwinian, or disconnect from entanglements and relationships. “part Ovidian, these With ironic accuracy and sensuous imagery, Hofmann are waltzing and considers a range of human foibles: a newlywed desirous tales of couple who transform into feral beasts during the transformation, hardships of a remote research expedition; backbiting thrumming with faculty members who strip down during a post- verdant light reaching conference BBQ; an heretical nun who explores the through forest possibility of a new life by imaginatively excavating the canopies. Hofmann’s fossils of BC’s Burgess Shale; and an ambitious bylaw characters are strange officer determined to make her mark on the city’s creatures bumping streets. In Echolocation, Karen Hofmann has found against one another new ways to sound the depths of the human heart. in the shadows, with cracking voices seeking to connect. And then, when you least expect it, mad SHORT FICTION Karen Hofmann is an Associate Professor at leaps from the dark ISBN 13 978-1-988732-56-5 Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, into the light.” BISAC: FIC029000, British Columbia. Her debut poetry ~ R.W. Gray, author of FIC044000, FIC019000 collection, Water Strider, was shortlisted for Entropic and Crisp 200 pp || 6 x 9” pb the Dorothy Livesay prize. She is the author May 2019 || $19.95 of two novels: After Alice and What is Going to Happen Next. She is a thrice winner of the Okanagan Fiction Contest, and “The Burgess Shale” was shortlisted at the 2012 CBC Short Fiction Contest. FRONTLIST | NeWest Press Spring 2019 | 6 Molly of the Mall: Nunatak First Literary Lass and Purveyor of Fine Foorwear Fiction Series by Heidi L.M. Jacobs # 50 Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregor’s life is strikingly different from a literary heroine’s. Named for one of Heidi L.M. Jacobs nails it. literature’s least romantic protagonists, Moll Flanders, Molly of the Mall relentlessly, “hilariously conveys the ennui Molly lives in Edmonton, a city she finds irredeemably felt by anyone who has ever unromantic, where she writes university term papers read a book and then gone instead of novels, and sells shoes in the Largest Mall to the mall, just as it captures on Earth. There she seeks the other half of her young the malaise and pretension of every undergraduate life’s own matched pair. Delightfully whimsical, Heidi English course ever. A L.M. Jacobs’ Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and rollicking literary romance Purveyor of Fine Footwear explores its namesake’s set in the icy moonscape of love for the written word, love for the wrong men (and 1990s Edmonton, Molly is wicked good fun.” the right one), and her complicated love for her city.
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