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Newest Press Fall 2021 NEWEST PRESS CATALOGUE FALL•2021 PUBLISHER INFORMATION Ordering Information For more information, questions, or for further promotional materials, please contact NeWest Press at [email protected] Matt Bowes (he/him) Claire Kelly (she/her) General Manager Marketing and Production Ph: 780.432.9427 Coordinator [email protected] Ph: 780.432.9427 [email protected] Christine Kohler (she/her) Office Administator Ph: 780.432.9427 [email protected] Cover photo by Kirill Pershin on Unsplash 1 newestpress.com CONTENTS Publisher Information ..................................................................................................................1 Contents ......................................................................................................................................2 Icefields: Landmark Edition ........................................................................................................3 The Cine Star Salon .....................................................................................................................4 Last Tide .......................................................................................................................................5 Tenure ..........................................................................................................................................6 rump + flank ................................................................................................................................7 Accolades ...................................................................................................................................8 Backlist .........................................................................................................................................9 Distribution ................................................................................................................................10 2 newestpress.com NEW TITLE INFORMATION Icefields: Landmark Edition by Thomas Wharton A new edition of an award-winning Western Canadian classic. In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, a stray beam of sunlight illuminates the ice in front of him and Byrne sees something in the blue-green radiance that will forever link him to the ancient glacier. In this moment, his life’s purpose becomes uncovering the mystery of the icefield that almost was his tomb. Along the way, he encounters similarly fixated individuals, each immersed in their own quest: the healer and storyteller Sara; the bohemian travel writer Freya Becker; the entrepreneur Trask; the poet Hal Rowan; and Elspeth, greenhouse keeper and Byrne’s lover. First published in 1995, Wharton’s Icefields is an astonishing historical novel set in a mesmerizing literary landscape, one that is constantly being altered by the surging and retreating glacier and unpredictable weather. Here—where Trade Paperback / October 15, 2021 characters are pulled into deep chasms of ice as well as the stories and ISBN 10: 1-77439-036-1 histories they tell one another—is a vivid, daring, and crisply written book that reveals the human spirit, loss, myth, and elusive truths. ISBN 13: 978-177439-036-8 BISAC 1: FIC014000 This updated Landmark Edition includes an author interview with Smaro Kamboureli and an Afterword by award-winning writer Suzette Mayr. BISAC 2: FIC077000 BISAC 3: FIC019000 248 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $23.95 CDN $19.95 USD “Ice, when it is touched, can sear the flesh: in Icefields it fires the imagination.” ~ Emily Mitchell, People About The Author Thomas Wharton’s novels, stories, and nonfiction have been published in Canada, the US, the UK, Italy, and other countries. His first novel, Icefields, received the 1996 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in Canada and the Caribbean. His first collection of fantastical stories, The Logogryph, was shortlisted the International Dublin Literary Award. He has also published a YA fantasy trilogy, The Perilous Realm, and an eco-fiction, Every Blade of Grass. Wharton lives near Edmonton, Alberta and teaches creative writing. ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS • Submit to all eligible awards. • Originally a part of the Nunatak First Fiction Series, the longest- • Ads in Glass Buffalo, Prairie Books NOW, Prairie Fire, PRISM running debut-fiction series in Canada. international, Read Alberta Books (Alberta Views), subTerrain, • His work has been published in the US, UK, France, Germany, and the ULS Super Forthcoming Catalogue. Italy, Japan, and other countries. • Book will appeal to those who enjoy historical fiction with MARKETS multiple well-written characters, and for fans of the book looking • National trade: literary/historical fiction for further insight and background information. • US and UK trade: literary/historical fiction • Jasper, AB. MARKETING PLAN • International press release mailout. COMPARISON TITLES • Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on • The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek by Sid Marty the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. (978-0-771056-98-7, McClelland & Stewart, 2008) • Podcast reading/interview posted on Apple Podcasts, RSS feed, • Places Far from Ellesmere by Aritha Van Herk Facebook, and NeWest website. (978-0-889950-60-3, Red Deer Press, 2003) • Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across • The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival the nation, both radio and television. by John Vaillant • Online Zoom launch, and eventual in-person launches in (978-0-307397-15-7, Knopf Canada, 2011) Edmonton, and Calgary. 3 newestpress.com NEW TITLE INFORMATION The Cine Star Salon by Leah Ranada Sophia is pulled between the life she imagines, the life her parents imagine, and what the world has in store for her. Philippine-born Vancouverite Sophia is most grateful for two things: her modest hair salon and Adrian, her mild-mannered fiancé. She is eager to get married, move away from her highly educated but career-frustrated parents, who believe that their daughter can be so much more than a beautician. Then Sophia’s estranged friend reaches out from Manila, desperate for help. After a dubious accident, her fiery Auntie Rosy is on the verge of losing the Cine Star Salon—the place where Sophia first felt the call to become a hairstylist and salon owner. Coming to her auntie’s aid is not so easy though. Sophia worries helping might reopen old wounds and threaten the bright future she has planned. Leah Ranada’s debut novel is a graphic and engaging depiction of the importance of women’s work and the loyalties that connect friends across oceans. Recalling the work of Doretta Lau, Alex Leslie, and Lauralyn Chow, Trade Paperback / October 1, 2021 The Cine Star Salon marks the entry of a vital new voice in Canadian literature. ISBN 10: 1-77439-032-9 ISBN 13: 978-177439-032-0 BISAC 1: FIC054000 BISAC 2: FIC082000 BISAC 3: FIC051000 200 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $21.95 CDN $17.95 USD Part of the Nunatak First Fiction Series, Canada’s longest-running debut fiction series. Notable Nunatak titles include Chorus of Mushrooms by Hiromi Goto; Icefields by Thomas Wharton; Dance, Gladys, Dance by Cassie Stocks; The Shore Girl by Fran Kimmel; and Molly of the Mall by Heidi L.M. Jacobs. About The Author Le a h Ra n a d a wa s b o r n i n D a va o Ci t y, ra i s e d i n M et ro M a n i l a, a n d m ove d to Va n co u ve r i n 2 0 0 6 . She attended The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University in 2013. Her writing has appeared in Room Magazine, Sta. Ana River Review, Scarlet Leaf Literary Review, and elsewhere. Leah has brought her administrative and editorial skills to legal, settlement services, and academic workplaces. She lives in New Westminster and blogs at leahranada.com. ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS • Submit to all eligible awards. • Book will appeal to those who enjoy diaspora and Asian Canadian fiction. MARKETS • Setting of the book, hair salons, is a place readers have • National trade: Asian Canadian and literary fiction experienced but have not read about in Canadian literature. • US and UK trade: Asian Canadian and literary fiction • Vancouver, BC, and Manila. MARKETING PLAN • Early ARC and international press release mailout. COMPARISON TITLES • Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on • Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. (978-1-984803-25-2, Penguin Random House, 2019) • Podcast reading/interview posted on Apple Podcasts, RSS feed, • Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez Facebook, and NeWest website. (978-1-55156-77-5, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017) • Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across • Belinda’s Rings by Corinna Chong the nation, both radio and television. (978-1-927063-27-9, NeWest Press, 2013) • Ads in Glass Buffalo, Prairie Books NOW, Prairie Fire, PRISM international, Read Alberta Books (Alberta Views), subTerrain, and the ULS Super Forthcoming Catalogue. • Online Zoom launch, and eventual in-person launches in Vancouver. 4 newestpress.com NEW TITLE INFORMATION Last Tide by Andy Zuliani A debut novel that confronts the near future in microcosm. Ana and Win find themselves stuck, lifting the weight of their pasts, while frustrated by their present jobs: photographing vacant lots and decayed industrial sites, cataloguing the decline of capitalist excess to digitally scrub away humanity,
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