NeWest Press Catalogue Fall 2022

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There Are Wolves Here Too

by Niall Howell

Thirteen-year-old Robin thinks he knows his hometown of Haddington Springs. He doesn’t.

Spilt blood whets the appetite of a ravine at the heart of Haddington Springs, a bedroom community with a closet full of bones. It’s 1997, and Robin and his two best friends, Steph and Dylan, are ready to dive into their first summer as teenagers. But when Catherine, a classmate’s younger sister, disappears, Robin finds his carefree life of mall arcades, soccer, and slasher movies swapped out for one of paranoia, guilt, and confusion. While parents form search parties and police chase vaporous leads, Robin becomes convinced that there is a darker element at play, one that he might have accidentally set loose. All the while, he is trying to figure out his changing relationships, growing closer to Steph as his friendship with Dylan is increasingly marred by mercurial moods and secrets. Delving into the most awkward and bewildering time of adolescence, Niall Howell’s There Are Wolves Here Too blends coming of age with noir and horror elements as we move with Robin through the difficulties of learning who to trust and when to trust yourself.

Trade Paperback / Sept. 1, 2022

ISBN 10: 1-77439-059-0

ISBN 13: 978-1-77439-059-7

BISAC 1: FIC043000

BISAC 2: FIC071000

BISAC 3: FIC019000

291 pp / 6” x 9” / $23.95 cdn $18.95 usd

“

About The Author

Niall Howell lives in Calgary, Alberta with his wife, son, and pets. His debut noir novel Only Pretty Damned was shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the literary fiction category. His short fiction has been featured in The Feathertale Review and FreeFall. He can be found on Twitter @niall_howell.

ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS

• Previous book was a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the literary fiction category.

• Book will appeal to those who enjoy dark coming of age stories like Stephen King’s Stand By Me

MARKETING PLAN

• International press release and ARC mailout.

• Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages.

• Podcast/reading interview on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio.

• Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across the nation, both radio and television.

• Online Zoom launch, and eventual in-person launches in Edmonton, Vancouver, and Calgary.

• Submit to all eligible awards.

• Ads in Glass Buffalo, Prairie Books NOW, Mystery Scene, Prairie Fire, PRISM international, Read Alberta Books (Alberta Views), subTerrain, and the ULS Super Forthcoming Catalogue

MARKETS

• National trade: literary / crime fiction

• US and UK trade: literary / crime fiction

• Calgary, AB

COMPARISON TITLES

• The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson (978-0-735274-82-2, Knopf Canada, 2018)

• Some People’s Children by Bridget Canning (978-1-550818-12-3, Breakwater Books, 2020)

• Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay (978-0-062363-27-5, William Morrow Paperbacks, 2016)

There Are Wolves Here Too delivers a powerful story about small towns and dark secrets.

Howell is a writer to watch.”

~ Sam Wiebe, award-winning author of Hell and Gone

Five Moves of Doom

by A.J. Devlin

In “Hammerhead” Jed’s third case, the pro-wrestler PI looks like he might be down for the count while investigating an underground fight circuit.

Hired by local mixed martial arts trainer Elijah Lennox to find a missing UFC Championship belt, pro-wrestler PI “Hammerhead” Jed must extract answers from the tight-knit MMA community. Still consuming his weight in banana milkshakes, Jed ventures into a world of jewel thieves, bodybuilders, eccentric yoga enthusiasts, and adorable baby goats. As he infiltrates an exclusive and unique no-holds-barred fight club, Jed might just find himself down for the count …

Five Moves of Doom is a high-altitude and high-attitude entry in A.J. Devlin’s award-winning mystery series, one that finds its hero pushed to his absolute limit, relying on his closest allies to survive, and making choices he never thought he’d have to make.

Trade Paperback / Sept. 15, 2022

ISBN 10: 1-77439-055-8

ISBN 13: 978-177439-055-9

BISAC 1: FIC022090

BISAC 2: FIC022010

BISAC 3: FIC022000

236 pp / 5” x 8” / $22.95 cdn $17.95 usd

“Devlin

~ Dave Butler, Award-Winning author of FULL CURL

About The Author

A.J. Devlin grew up in Greater Vancouver before moving to Southern California where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from Chapman University and a Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from The American Film Institute. After working as a screenwriter in Hollywood, he moved back home to Port Moody, BC, where he now lives with his wife and two children. The award-winning Cobra Clutch was released in 2018, and its follow-up, Rolling Thunder, in 2020. For more information on A.J. and his books, please visit ajdevlin.com.

ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS

• Taps into the no-holds-barred world of MMA.

• First series entry won Best First Crime Novel at the Arthur Ellis Awards and was nominated for Best Debut Mystery Novel at the Lefty Awards.

MARKETING PLAN

• International press release and ARC mailout.

• Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages.

• Podcast/reading interview on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio.

• Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across the nation, both radio and television.

• Ads in Glass Buffalo, Prairie Books NOW, Mystery Scene, 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, Calgary, and Toronto.

• Author will attend various wrestling and roller derby events in the Vancouver area.

• Submit to all eligible awards.

MARKETS

• National trade: mystery

• US and UK trade: mystery

• Vancouver, BC / urban

COMPARISON TITLES

• Hell and Gone by Sam Wiebe (978-1-550179-63-7, Harbour Publishing Company, 2021)

• Squeeze Me by Carl Hiassen (978-0-525435-28-0, Vintage / Knopf Doubleday, 2021)

• Home by Harlan Coben (978-1-101984-26-0, Dutton, 2017)

is not only on his game, but in a league of his own. The best yet in the ‘Hammerhead’ Jed series.”

Ghosts in a Photograph: A Chronicle

by Myrna Kostash

An award-winning nonfiction author delves into her family’s various and complicated paths from Galicia (Ukraine) to Alberta.

In Ghosts in a Photograph, award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn of the twentieth century. Discovering a packet of family mementos, Kostash begins questioning what she knows about her extended families’ pasts and whose narrative is allowed to prevail in Canada.

This memoir, however, is not just a personal story, but a public one of immigration, partisan allegiance, and the stark differences in how two sets of families survive in a new country: one as homesteaders, the other as workingclass Edmontonians. Working within the gaps in history—including the unsolved murder in Ukraine of her great-uncle—Kostash uses her remarkable acumen as a writer and researcher to craft a probable narrative to interrogate the idea of straightforward and singular-voiced pasts and the stories we tell ourselves about where we come from.

Rich in detail and propelled by vital curiosity, Ghosts in a Photograph is a determined, compelling, and multifaceted family chronicle.

Trade Paperback / Oct. 1, 2022

ISBN 10: 1-77439-057-4

ISBN 13: 978-177439-057-3

BISAC 1: BIO026000

BISAC 2: BIO002000 BISAC 3: BIO006000

246 pp / 6” x 9” / $24.95 cdn $19.95 usd

About The Author

Myrna Kostash’s most recent books are Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium and The Seven Oaks Reader. Her essays and creative nonfiction have been widely anthologized. She is a recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Matt Cohen Award for A Life of Writing. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS

• Author is an important Western Canadian nonfiction writer and figure of letters who has won many awards and received many accolades, including the Writers’ Trust of Canada Matt Cohen Award for A Life of Writing.

• Book will appeal to those who enjoy family chronicles and labour history and includes an element of true crime.

MARKETING PLAN

• International press release mailout.

• Digital ARC available.

• Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages.

• Podcast/reading interview on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio.

• Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across the nation, both radio and television.

• Submit to all eligible awards.

• Ads in Brick, 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 Edmonton and Calgary.

MARKETS

• National trade: family memoir

• US and UK trade: family memoir

• Edmonton, AB / Western Ukraine

COMPARISON TITLES

• White Coal City: A Memoir of Place and Family by Robert Boschman (978-0-889777-96-5, University of Regina Press, 2021)

• Euclid’s Orchard and Other Essays by Theresa Kishkan (978-1-896949-63-5, Mother Tongue, 2017)

• Common People: The History of an English Family by Alison Light (978-0-141039-86-2, Fig Tree / Penguin, 2015)

“Kostash

writes with

a

poetic

grace that vividly captures the look, feel, and smell of her subjects”

~ Maclean’s, praise for No Kidding: Inside the Life of Teenage Girls

Tracking the Caribou Queen

by Margaret Macpherson

Memoir of a Settler Girlhood

In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the ’60s and ’70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined microaggressions, and how her childhood was shaped by the colonialism and systemic racism that continues today. Macpherson’s father, first a principal and later a federal government administrator, oversaw education in the NWT, including the high school Margaret attended with its attached hostel: a residential facility mostly housing Indigenous children.

Ringing with damning and painful truths, this bittersweet telling invites white readers to examine their own personal histories in order to begin to right relations with the Indigenous Peoples on whose land they live. Tracking the Caribou Queen is beautifully crafted to a purpose: poetic language and narrative threads dissect the trope that persisted through her girlhood, that of the Caribou Queen, a woman who seemed to embody extreme and contradictory stereotypes of Indigeneity. Here, Macpherson is not striving for a tidy ideal of “reconciliation”; what she is working towards is much messier, more complex and ambivalent and, ultimately, more equitable.

Trade Paperback / Oct. 15, 2022

ISBN 10: 1-77439-061-2

ISBN 13: 978-1-77439-061-0

BISAC 1: BIO026000

BISAC 2: BIO028000

BISAC 3: BIO019000

236 pp / 6” x 9” / $24.95 cdn $19.95 usd

About The Author

Margaret Macpherson has recently taken up residence on the shore of the Ottawa River on the southern border of Northern Ontario or the northern border of Southern Ontario, depending whom she speaks. She lives in Deep River, Ontario, near the Algonquin Nation of Pikwakanagan and across the river from the wilds of Quebec.

ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS

• Author has written five previous books, including nonfiction, novels, and a short story collection.

• Book will appeal to readers of childhood memoirs and to settlers looking to reflect on their own personal culpabiliity towards Indigenous Peoples.

MARKETING PLAN

• International press release and ARC mailout.

• Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages.

• Podcast/reading interview on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio.

• Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across the nation, both radio and television.

• Submit to all eligible awards.

• Ads in Brick, 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 Toronto.

MARKETS

• National trade: childhood memoir / settler memoir

• US and UK trade: childhood memoir / settler memoir

• Northwest Territories / Canada

COMPARISON TITLES

• The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations by Shirley Hager and Mawopiyane (978-1-487545-88-8, U of T Press, 2022)

• Teaching at the Top of the World by Odette Barr (978-1-989725-03-0, Pottersfield Press, 2020)

• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (978-0-375758-99-7, Random House, 2003)

“This is a brave, unsparing story by a gifted writer with her eyes wide open to Canada’s hypocrisies. Can we find the courage to look at our own hometowns with Margaret Macpherson’s unflinching gaze? She insists we try.

~ Linda Goyette of Disinherited Generations

How to Hold a Pebble

by Jaspreet Singh

How do we scale up our imagination of the human? How does one live one’s life in the Anthropocene?

How to Hold a Pebble —Jaspreet Singh’s second collection of poems— locates humans in the Anthropocene, while also warning against the danger of a single story. These pages present intimate engagements with memory, place, language, migration; with enchantment, uncanniness, uneven climate change and everyday decolonization; with entangled human/non-human relationships and deep anxieties about essential/non-essential economic activities. The poems explore strategies for survival and action by way of a playful return to the quotidian and its manifold interactions with the global and planetary.

Trade Paperback / Oct. 15, 2022

ISBN 10: 1-77439-053-1

ISBN 13: 978-177439-53-5

BISAC 1: POE011000

BISAC 2: POE023040

95 pp / 6” x 9” / $20.95 cdn $16.95 usd

“How to Hold a Pebble is a work of remarkable intellect. With empathy and playfulness, with startle and delight, Jaspreet Singh explores the fragility, beauty, and sorrow of the dreaming and waking worlds.”

~ Donna Kane, author of Orrery finalist for the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award

About The Author

Jaspreet Singh’s non-fiction has appeared in Granta, Brick, and the New York Times. He is the author of the novels Chef, Helium, and Face; the story collection Seventeen Tomatoes; the poetry collection November ; and most recently, the memoir My Mother, My Translator. His work has been published internationally and has been translated into several languages. He lives in Calgary.

ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS

• Part of the Crow Said Poetry series. Notable Crow Said Poetry titles include Coconut by Nisha Patel and The Response of Weeds by Bertrand Bickersteth.

• Book will appeal to fans of ecopoetry and poetry about identity.

• Has been published in literary journals across Canada.

MARKETING PLAN

• International press release mailout.

• Digital ARC available.

• Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages.

• Podcast/reading interview on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio.

• Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across the nation, both radio and television.

• Online Zoom launch, and eventual in-person launches in Calgary and Edmonton.

• Ads in ARC, Glass Buffalo, Prairie Books NOW, Prairie Fire, PRISM international, Read Alberta Books (Alberta Views), subTerrain, and the ULS Super Forthcoming Catalogue

• Submit to all eligible awards.

MARKETS

• National trade: lyrical poetry

• US and UK trade: lyrical poetry

• Edmonton, ON

COMPARISON TITLES

• Welcome to the Anthropocene by Alice Major (978-1-772123-68-5, University of Alberta Press, 2018)

• sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar (978-0-771094-69-9, McLelland & Stewart, 2021)

• That Winter the Wolf Came by Juliana Spahr (978-1-934639-17-7, Commune Editions, 2015)

The Response of Weeds

by Bertrand Bickersteth

• Winner of the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award; the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry; the High Plains Book Award for First Book; and the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry!

“...a vigorous and erudite excavation of history and a carefully constructed reclamation of place.”

~ Steven W. Beattie, Quill & Quire (starred review)

Trade Paperback / Apr. 1, 2020

ISBN 13: 978-1-988732-79-4

88 pp / 5.5 x 9 / $18.95 cd N $15.95 u S d

In Veritas

by C.J. Lavigne

• Finalist for the 2021 Crawford Award!

• Best of List for Tor.com and Every Book a Doorway!

“Lavigne’s debut urban fantasy novel, part of the ‘Nunatak First Fiction’ series, is full of wonder, dark ness, and hope.... Reminiscent of the best of Charles de Lint, this is a book readers will not want to put down.”

~ Jennifer Beach, Library Journal

Trade Paperback / May 1, 2020

ISBN 13: 978-1-988732-83-1

344 pp / 6 x 9 / $ 21.95 cd N $19.95 u S d

Horseplay

by Norm Boucher

• Shortlisted for the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book at the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence!

“True crime buffs will find much to admire in this eye-opening personal narrative.”

~ Publishers Weekly

Trade Paperback / Nov. 15, 2020 ISBN 13: 978-1-988732-98-5 280 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $ 21.95 cd N $19.95 u S d

Hunger Moon

by Traci Skuce

• Shortlisted for the Seventh Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, Literary Fiction Category!

“The artful writing and the complexity of the emotional landscape heighten the appeal and significance of each story.”

~ Marjorie Anderson, Winnipeg Free Press

Trade Paperback / Apr. 15, 2020

ISBN 13: 978-1-988732-80-0

216 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $ 19.95 cd N $17.95 u S d

Taken by the Muse

by Anne Wheeler

• Finalist for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize at the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards and for the 2021 High Plains Book Awards, Nonfiction Category!

“What Taken by the Muse ultimately demonstrates is that ... moments of growth and joy occur when you veer off a given path and create something worthwhile out of the diversion.”

~ Madeleine Wall, Quill & Quire

Trade Paperback / Oct. 15, 2020 ISBN 13: 978-1-77439- 001-6 256 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $ 20.95 cd N $16.95 u S d

Goth Girls of Banff

by John O’Neill

• Shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Awards, Short Fiction Category!

“The depth and variety of perspectives O’Neill writes make this collection a staggeringly endearing pastiche.”

~ Courtney Eathorne, Booklist

Trade Paperback / Nov. 15, 2020 ISBN 13: 978-1-988732-95-4 208 pp / 5.5 x 8 .5 / $19.95 cd N $15.95 u S d

The Broken Places

by Frances Peck

When the earthquake hits, the city erupts in chaos and fear. Kyle’s and Charlotte’s families, along with two passersby, are thrown together in an oceanfront mansion.

“Peck masterfully brings together a cast of complex characters, each broken in their own way, and weaves a compelling story set against the backdrop of a catastrophic earthquake.”

~ Brian Francis, author of Fruit and Missed Connections

Trade Paperback / Apr. 1, 2022

ISBN 13: 978-1-77439-045-0

400 pp / 6” x 9” / $24.95 cd N $20.95 u S d

Ezra’s Ghosts

by Darcy Tamayose

Award-winning author Darcy Tamayose returns with Ezra’s Ghosts, a collection of fantastical stories linked by a complex mingling of language and culture, as well as a deep understanding of grief and what it makes of us.

“[A]n immersive and intelligent page turner.... this is a treasure.”

~ Publishers Weekly

Trade Paperback / May 10, 2022

ISBN 13: 978-1-77439-047-4

288 pp / 5.5” x 8.5” / $20.95 cd N $16.95 u S d

To Those Who Killed Me

by J.T. Siemens

Disgraced ex-cop Sloane Donovan has relied on her job as a fitness instructor to keep her mental illness and PTSD in check—until she finds a close friend dead. Now she must push herself beyond her limits to find out who really killed her friend.

“This gritty crime tale, which snakes through Vancouver’s squalid backstreets, plunges the fearless, at times reckless heroine into a surfeit of horrific encounters with addicts and abusers, rapists, and killers. This isn’t for the faint-hearted.”

~ Publishers Weekly

Trade Paperback / Apr. 1, 2022 ISBN 13: 978-1-177439-043-6 392 pp / 5” x 8” / $21.95 cd N $17.95 u S d

Why I’m Here

by Jill Frayne

It’s 1995, and one counselling agency for kids and families serves all of the Yukon. As she treats 15-year-old Gale, Helen realizes that Gale’s distress too closely parallels a calamity from her own past.

“ The challenges Frayne’s characters face in this tough, beautiful and forgiving novel don’t come from the land, but from their own inability to leave their pasts behind.”

~ Wayne Grady, author of The Good Father

Trade Paperback / May 1, 2022 ISBN 13: 978-77439-049-8 288 pp / 5.5” x 8.5” / $21.95 cd N $17.95 u S d

Up The Coast

by Kathryn Willcock

A memoir that reveals growing up in coastal BC logging camps in the 1960s, when children played in the wilderness, women kept rifles next to the wood stove, and loggers risked their lives each day.

“Told with humour, honesty, and charm, the author depicts Orford Bay’s memorable cast of characters as well as experiences both bizarre and everyday.”

~ Meaghan Marie Hackinen, author of S outh Away

Trade Paperback / May 15, 2022

ISBN 13: 978-77439-051-1

224 pp / 6” x 9” / $24.95 cd N $20.95 u S d

rump + flank

by Carol Harvey Steski

A tenacious and unapologetic debut that explores the body in nature’s many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe, even chemical.

“Cutting, sharp and sonically rich, the poems in rump + flank dazzle with rhythm, image and meaning.

~ Catherine Graham, author of The Celery Forest and Aether: An Out-ofBody Lyric

Trade Paperback / Sept. 1, 2021 ISBN 13: 978-1-77439-028-3 96 pp / 5.5” x 9” / $19.95 cd N $15.95 u S d

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The Response of Weeds

by Bertrand Bickersteth

• Winner of the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award; the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry; the High Plains Book Award for First Book; and the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry!

“...a vigorous and erudite excavation of history and a carefully constructed reclamation of place.”

~ Steven W. Beattie, Quill & Quire (starred review)

Trade Paperback / Apr. 1, 2020

ISBN 13: 978-1-988732-79-4

88 pp / 5.5 x 9 / $18.95 cd N $15.95 u S d

In Veritas

by C.J. Lavigne

• Finalist for the 2021 Crawford Award!

• Best of List for Tor.com and Every Book a Doorway!

“Lavigne’s debut urban fantasy novel, part of the ‘Nunatak First Fiction’ series, is full of wonder, dark ness, and hope.... Reminiscent of the best of Charles de Lint, this is a book readers will not want to put down.”

~ Jennifer Beach, Library Journal

Trade Paperback / May 1, 2020

ISBN 13: 978-1-988732-83-1

344 pp / 6 x 9 / $ 21.95 cd N $19.95 u S d

Horseplay

by Norm Boucher

• Shortlisted for the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book at the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence!

“True crime buffs will find much to admire in this eye-opening personal narrative.”

~ Publishers Weekly

Trade Paperback / Nov. 15, 2020 ISBN 13: 978-1-988732-98-5 280 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $ 21.95 cd N $19.95 u S d

Hunger Moon

by Traci Skuce

• Shortlisted for the Seventh Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, Literary Fiction Category!

“The artful writing and the complexity of the emotional landscape heighten the appeal and significance of each story.”

~ Marjorie Anderson, Winnipeg Free Press

Trade Paperback / Apr. 15, 2020

ISBN 13: 978-1-988732-80-0

216 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $ 19.95 cd N $17.95 u S d

Taken by the Muse

by Anne Wheeler

• Finalist for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize at the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards and for the 2021 High Plains Book Awards, Nonfiction Category!

“What Taken by the Muse ultimately demonstrates is that ... moments of growth and joy occur when you veer off a given path and create something worthwhile out of the diversion.”

~ Madeleine Wall, Quill & Quire

Trade Paperback / Oct. 15, 2020 ISBN 13: 978-1-77439- 001-6 256 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $ 20.95 cd N $16.95 u S d

Goth Girls of Banff

by John O’Neill

• Shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Awards, Short Fiction Category!

“The depth and variety of perspectives O’Neill writes make this collection a staggeringly endearing pastiche.”

~ Courtney Eathorne, Booklist

Trade Paperback / Nov. 15, 2020 ISBN 13: 978-1-988732-95-4 208 pp / 5.5 x 8 .5 / $19.95 cd N $15.95 u S d