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UPCOMING AND RECENT EVENTS AND PUBLICITY
Last updated April 22, 2008
** Items not
previously announced are marked in RED.**
Times listed are local
to broadcasting city.
AWARDS
BESTSELLERS
PUBLICITY
FOR NEW TITLES
PUBLICITY
FOR RECENT TITLES
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
NEW!! Publisher Howard White
of Harbour Publishing invested into the Order of Canada
Harbour Publishing’s
General Manager, Vici Johnstone, is the new owner and publisher of Caitlin Press!
AWARDS:
NEW!! George Murray,
author of The Rush to Here
(Nightwood Editions) has been shortlisted for the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia
Atlantic Poetry Prize.
NEW!! Nightwood author Tim Bowling wins prestigious
Guggenheim Fellowship.
Diane Guichon,
author of Birch Split Bark
(Nightwood Editions) has been shortlisted for the Writer’s Guild of Alberta City
of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.
Rex Terpening,
author of Bent Props and Blow
Pots has won the Canadian Aerophilatelist Editor’s Award.
Rita Wong, author of forage (Nightwood), and Gillian Wigmore,
author of Soft Geography
(Caitlin), have been shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.
Tim Bowling, author
of The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death
of Wild Culture
(Nightwood) and Barry Gough,
author of Fortune’s A River:
The Collision of Empires in Northwest America (Harbour) have
been shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize.
Mike McCardell, author
of The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike
McCardell’s Favourite Stories
has been shortlisted for the BC Booksellers’ Choice Award.
Operation Orca: Springer, Luna and the
Struggle to Save West Coast Killer Whales by Daniel Francis
and Gil Hewlett
(Harbour) has been shortlisted for Forword Magazine’s Best Nature Non-Fiction
Award.
Barry Gough,
author of Fortune’s A River:
The Collision of Empires in Northwest America (Harbour), and Tim Bowling, author of The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death
of Wild Culture (Nightwood) have been named finalists for the
Nereus Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize.
Tim Bowling,
author of The Lost Coast:
Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture (Nightwood), was
longlisted for the 2008 BC Award for Canadian
Non-Fiction.
BESTSELLERS:
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BC Bestsellers,
week of April 14, 2008 (Source Association of Book Publishers of BC)
2.
Mike McCardell: The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike
McCardell’s Favourite Stories ISBN 978-1-55017-440-3
5. Tom Zytaruk: Like a Rock: The Chuck Cadman Story ISBN 978-1-55017-427-4
8. Mark Forysthe and Greg Dickson: Trail of 1858: British
Columbia’s Gold Rush Past ISBN 978-1-55017-424-3
10. Keith Billington: Housecalls by Dogsled:
Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost ISBN 978-1-55017-423-6
Children’s Titles
1. Eileen Van der Flier-Keller: A Field Guide to the Identification of Pebbles ISBN
978-1-55017-395-6
3. Meg Hickling, illustrated by Kim La Fave: Boys, Girls & Body
Science: A First Book About Facts of Life ISBN 978-1-55017-236-2
BC Bestsellers,
week of April 7, 2008 (Source Association of Book Publishers of BC)
Adult Titles
1. Mike McCardell: The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike
McCardell’s Favourite Stories ISBN 978-1-55017-440-3
6. Mark Forysthe and Greg Dickson: Trail of 1858: British
Columbia’s Gold Rush Past ISBN 978-1-55017-424-3
8. Tom Zytaruk: Like a Rock: The Chuck Cadman Story ISBN 978-1-55017-427-4
Children’s Titles
1. Eileen Van der Flier-Keller: A Field Guide to the Identification of Pebbles
ISBN
978-1-55017-395-6
4. Meg Hickling, illustrated by Kim La Fave: Boys, Girls & Body
Science: A First Book About Facts of Life ISBN
978-1-55017-236-2
National Bestsellers,
week of April 19, 2008(Source TBN BookManager’s Best on the Shelf)
Canadiana
11. Mike McCardell: The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike
McCardell’s Favourite Stories ISBN 978-1-55017-431-1 (tradepaper)
15. Eileen Van der Flier-Keller: A Field Guide to the Identification of Pebbles ISBN
978-1-55017-395-6
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National Bestsellers,
week of April 12, 2008(Source TBN BookManager’s Best on the Shelf)
Canadiana
15. Eileen Van der Flier-Keller: A Field Guide to the Identification of Pebbles ISBN
978-1-55017-395-6
PUBLICITY FOR NEW TITLES:
(sorted
alphabetically by author)
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Jean Barman: BC 150 Years:
Spirit of the People ISBN
978-1-55017-446-5, $49.95,
hardback, Harbour Publishing MEDIA Print/Online Announcement – Quill &
Quire, Spring 2008 ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Spring 2008 |
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Keith Billington: Housecalls by
Dogsled: Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost
ISBN
978-1-55017-423-6, $19.95,
paperback, Harbour Publishing MEDIA Radio/TV Interview – CBC Radio, April 3,
2008 Interview – PGTV, April 4, 2008 Interview – CFAX, April 10, 2008 Print/Online NEW!! Review – The Delta Optimist, April 12, 2008 NEW!! Interview – Prince George Free Press, April 9, 2008 Interview - Prince George
Citizen, April 2008 ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Spring 2008 |
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ISBN
978-0-88971-219-5, $16.95,
paperback, Nightwood Editions EVENTS Launch – My Dog Joe, a
Coffeehouse, 1020 King St W. Hamilton, ON: Thursday, April 24 at 7:30pm NEW!! DATE CHANGE Reading – Manx, 370 Elgin
St, Ottawa, ON on May 3 at 5pm IV Lounge Reading Series, 326 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON: Friday, September 26, 2008 LitLive Reading Series, Skydragon Café, 27 King William St Hamilton, ON: Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm |
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John Grain: Flylines &
Fishtales: The Story of Glimpse Lake Lodge ISBN
978-1-894759-26-7, $17.95, paperback,
Caitlin Press Reading and signing – Bookland, Kamloops, BC: Saturday,
April 26, 2008 from 11:00am-2:00pm MEDIA Radio/TV NEW!! Interview - Vernon Daily Courier Interview
- CFJC TV Kamloops Print/Online Interview
– Kamloops This Week Interview
– Kamloops Daily News |
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Stephen Hume: Simon Fraser: In
Search of Modern British Columbia ISBN 978-1-55017-434-2,
$36.95, hardback, Harbour Publishing MEDIA Print/Online Announcement – Quill &
Quire, Spring 2008 ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Spring 2008 |
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Robert H. Jones
and Larry E. Stefanyk: Island Salmon
Fisherman: A Guide to West Coast Hot Spots ISBN 978-1-55017-425-0,
$24.95, paperback, Harbour
Publishing ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Spring 2008 |
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Rick M. Harbo: A Field Guide to
Seashells and Shellfish of the Pacific Northwest
ISBN
978-1-55017-417-5, $7.95,
pamphlet, Harbour Publishing ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Spring 2008 |
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ISBN
978-1-55017-450-2, $16.95, paperback,
Harbour Publishing MEDIA Print/Online NEW!! Review – The Saskatoon Star Phoenix,
April 5, 2008 |
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Vivien Lougheed: Understanding
Bolivia: A Traveller’s History
ISBN
978-1-55017-446-5, $49.95,
hardback, Harbour Publishing ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Spring 2008 |
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Rafe Mair: What the Bleep is
Going on Here? ISBN
978-1-55017-458-8, $24.95, paperback,
Harbour Publishing EVENTS Launch – West Vancouver Memorial Library, BC: Thursday, May
22, 2008 7:30-9:00pm |
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Mike McCardell: The Blue
Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike McCardell’s Favourite Stories ISBN
978-1-55017-440-3, $32.95, hardback, Harbour Publishing, ISBN
978-1-55017-431-1 $24.95, paperback, Harbour Publishing AWARDS Shortlisted for the BC Booksellers’ Choice Award EVENTS Reading – North Shore Writers Festival, West Vancouver Memorial Library,
1950 Marine Drive, BC: April 25, 2008 at
1:30pm BESTSELLER #14 Canadiana National Bestseller, week of April 5, 2008
(tradepaper) #1 Adult Title BC Bestseller, week of March 31, 2008
(hardcover) #1
Adult Title BC Bestseller, week of March 24, 2008 (hardcover) #9 Canadiana National Bestseller, week of March 22, 2008
(tradepaper) |
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Martin Mitchinson: The Darien Gap:
Travels in the Rainforest of Panama
ISBN
978-1-55017-421-2, $26.95,
paperback, Harbour Publishing EVENTS NEW!! Launch – Breakwater Books, 6812 Alberni St, Powell River, BC:
Thursday, May 1 at 7pm NEW!! Reading & signing – Courtenay and District Museum, 207 4th St, Courtenay, BC: Thursday, May 22 at 7pm NEW!! Reading & signing – Mermaid Tales Bookshop, 455 Campbell, Tofino, BC: Friday, May
23 at 8pm NEW!! Reading & signing – Coho Books, 1074 Shoppers Row, Campbell River, BC: Saturday, May 24 at 4 pm NEW!! Reading & signing – Wild Heather Books, 1576 Imperial Lane, Ucluelet, BC: Sunday, May 25 4:30pm MEDIA Print/Online NEW!! Mention – The Vancouver Sun, April 10, 2008 ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Spring 2008 |
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George Murray: The Rush to Here ISBN 978-0-88971-229-4,
$13.95, paperback, Nightwood
Editions AWARDS NEW!! Shortlisted for the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia Atlantic
Poetry Prize MEDIA Print/Online NEW!! Mention – The Halifax Chronicle Herald, April 20, 2008 NEW!! Mention – The St. John’s Telegram, April 20, 2008 |