Goose Lane Editions Fall 2016 Essentials Staff SUSANNE ALEXANDER, Publisher [email protected] JULIE SCRIVER, Creative Director [email protected] ANGELA WILLIAMS, Publishing Assistant [email protected] KATHLEEN PEACOCK, Publicity Manager [email protected] KAREN PINCHIN, Non-Fiction Acquisitions [email protected] BETHANY GIBSON, Fiction Editor [email protected] BRENT WILSON, Military History Acquisitions [email protected] MARTIN AINSLEY, Production Editor [email protected] BEN BARTON, Financial Manager [email protected] MELISSA WOODWORTH, Customer Service [email protected] KERRY LAWLOR, Intern [email protected] icehouse poetry Linda Besner Claire Kelly Ross Leckie GOOSE LANE EDITIONS Sara Peters 500 Beaverbrook Court, Suite 330 David Seymour (on leave) Fredericton NB E3B 5X4 Canada Goose Lane Editions Tel. 506.450.4251 | Fax 506.459.4991 Carmelita Thompson O’Neill, Chair Toll-free 1.888.926.8377 Susanne Alexander, President [email protected] Julie Scriver, Vice-President gooselane.com Martin Aitken, Secretary Twitter: @goose_lane Ken Reimer, Treasurer Facebook: GooseLaneEditions Partners David Hawkins via Kristaeli Ltd. Helen Thomas Goose Lane Editions acknowledges the generous support of the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Government of New Brunswick. Cover image: All the leaves in the world are on fire (detail), by mendhak, Flickr.com Humour 9780864928832 pb | $19.95 The Book of Letters I Didn’t Know Where to Send 208 pages, 6 x 9 September 2016 STEVE PATTERSON Humour Rights held: Canada (English) Steve Patterson’s The Book of Letters I Didn’t Know Where to Send is a collection of — wait for it — letters, Also appearing in eBook: written by award-winning stand-up comedian — you guessed it — Steve Patterson. 9780864929563 e | $19.95 9780864929570 m | $19.95 The host of CBC Radio’s The Debaters since 2007, Steve Patterson has become a household name, $19.95 with more than 700,000 listeners tuning in each week. He has performed at several of the Just for Laughs prestigious televised galas, including one hosted by Steve Martin. 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He would like men to stop wearing • Social media campaign Spandex bike shorts. He would like airlines to stop selling seats they don’t have. He would like gluten to • Promotion on author’s website explain itself. He would like his nine-year-old self to know everything will be all right . and social media channels • Co-op available In addition to his stand-up comedy and radio work, Patterson has written for several publications, including the Globe and Mail, Irish Independent, London Free Press, Toronto Star, and Canadian Living. This is his first book. Fall 2016 1 Fiction 9780864928894 pb | $22.95 CAN Into the Current 380 pages, 5 x 8 September 2016 JARED YOUNG Fiction Rights held: Canada Daniel Solomon is not having a good day. Somewhere between Bangkok and Tokyo, zipping through the Also appearing in eBook: stratosphere, the jetliner on which he’s travelling cracks open like an egg, ejecting Daniel and his fellow 9780864929303 e | $19.95 CAN passengers into the great blue sky. 9780864929310 m | $19.95 CAN $22.95 If only that were the worst of it. Thousands of feet above the merciless Earth, still strapped into his seat, his cherished comics fluttering away 9 780864 928894 like freed parrots, Daniel finds out what it means to have your life flash before your eyes. • ARCs Time stops, the wreckage of the plane freezes in place, postponing the inevitable end, and Daniel finds that • National advertising he can transport himself back into his past. Re-experiencing his memories in real time, but helpless to change • National media relations the present, he plunges into the detritus of his all-but-concluded life. • Cross-Canada reading tour, In this daring and often hilarious novel, Jared Young defies the laws of physics and the conventions of including festivals • Author essays in selected media narrative to explore the twists and turns of great sex and bad decisions, chance and grand design, and the • Extensive blogger outreach moments of truth that can turn disaster into a mere interruption on the horizon. • Social media campaign JARED YOUNG grew up in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, and currently resides in Ottawa. His writing • Promotion on author’s website has appeared in the Toronto Star, Bangkok Post, Ottawa Citizen, Maisonneuve, and The Walrus; it has also and social media channels • Into the Current website been anthologized in McSweeney’s. He is the co-founder of Dear Cast and Crew (dearcastandcrew.com) and • Book trailer a creative director at the advertising agency McMillan. • Co-op available 2 GOOSE LANE EDITIONS Fiction Also available 9780864926401 pb | $19.95 9780864927057 e | $19.95 9780864920416 pb | $19.95 CAN All the Things We Leave Behind 240 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 September 2016 RIEL NASON Fiction Rights held: North America (English and French) A novel of absence and adolescence by the author of the award-winning The Town That Drowned. Also appearing in eBook: It’s 1977. Seventeen-year-old Violet is left behind by her parents to manage their busy roadside antique stand 9780864927316 e | $19.95 CAN for the summer. Her restless older brother, Bliss, has disappeared, leaving home without warning, and her 9780864929273 m | $19.95 CAN parents are off searching for clues. Violet is haunted by her brother’s absence while trying to cope with her $22.95 new responsibilities. Between visiting a local hermit, who makes twig furniture for the shop, and finding a way to land the contents of the mysterious Vaughan estate, Violet acts out with her summer boyfriend, Dean, 9 780864 920416 and wonders about the mysterious boneyard. But what really keeps her up at night are thoughts of Bliss’s departure and the white deer, which only she has seen. • ARCs All the Things We Leave Behind is about remembrance and attachment, about what we collect and what we • National advertising leave behind. In this highly affecting novel, Nason explores the permeability of memory and the sometimes • National media relations confusing bonds of human emotion. • Cross-Canada reading tour, including festivals RIEL NASON won the Commonwealth Book Prize, Canada and Europe, and the Margaret and John Savage • Extensive blogger outreach First Book Award for The Town That Drowned. The novel was also a finalist for the CLA Young Adult Book • Social media campaign Award and the Red Maple Award, and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Riel • Promotion on author’s website Nason was a professional antique dealer and, for more than a decade, wrote a column on collectibles for and social media channels New Brunswick’s Telegraph-Journal. She lives in Quispamsis, NB. • Co-op available Fall 2016 3 History Also available 9780864929037 pb | $19.95 9780864927668 e | $19.95 9780864924179 pb | $19.95 9780864926036 e | $19.95 Black River Road An Unthinkable Crime, 9780864928719 pb | $19.95 9780864927811 e | $19.95 an Unlikely Suspect, and the Question of Character 9780864927217 m | $19.95 DEBORAH KOMAR 9780864928764 pb | $19.95 In 1869, in the woods just outside of the bustling port city of Saint John, a group of teenaged berry pickers 220 pages, 6 x 9 discovered several badly decomposed bodies. The authorities suspected foul play, but the identities of the September 2016 victims were as mysterious as that of the perpetrator. From the twists and turns of a coroner’s inquest, an History, Historical Crime unlikely suspect emerged to stand trial for murder: John Munroe, a renowned architect, well-heeled family Rights held: World man, and pillar of the community. Also appearing in eBook: Munroe was arguably the first in Canada’s fledgling judicial system to actively defend himself. His lawyer’s 9780864928481 e | $19.95 strategy was as simple as it was revolutionary: Munroe’s wealth, education, and exemplary character made 9780864928047 m | $19.95 him incapable of murder. The press and Saint John’s elite vocally supported Munroe, sparking a debate about character and murder that continues to this day. In re-examining a precedent-setting historical crime with fresh eyes, Komar addresses questions that still echo through the halls of justice more than a century later: 9 780864 928764 is everyone capable of murder, and should character be treated as evidence in homicide trials? DEBRA KOMAR is the author of The Ballad of Jacob Peck, The Lynching of Peter Wheeler, and, most • ARCs recently, The Bastard of Fort Stikine. A Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and a • National advertising practicing forensic anthropologist for over twenty years, she investigated human-rights violations for the • National media relations United Nations and Physicians for Human Rights. She has testified as an expert witness at The Hague and • Cross-Canada speaking tour, throughout North America and is the author of many scholarly articles and a textbook, Forensic Anthropology: including festivals Contemporary Theory and Practice.