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News:
Rosella Leslie's first novel, The Goat Lady's Daughter, was published by NeWest Press in September 2006 to a chorus of great reviews. Says Kimmy Beach, "In this extraordinary novel, Rosella Leslie envisions one of the most ramshackle yet thoroughly engaging families we're likely to see in Canadian fiction this year. With The Goat Lady's Daughter, she proves, in the style of Barbara Kingsolver, that our true families aren't always our relatives but are often those people we get stuck with and choose to keep."
A Stain Upon the Sea wins Roderick Haig-Brown Prize and becomes finalist for Second Annual George Ryga Award for Social Awareness!
At the BC Book Prizes Gala on April 30, 2005, A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming was awarded the Roderick Haig-Brown Prize given annually for the book which "merits distinction as the work contributing most to an appreciation of British Columbia." This book, written by Stephen Hume, Betty Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer, Alexandra Morton and Don Staniford, and published by Harbour Publishing in October 2004, contains a condensed version of Keller and Leslie's important 1996 book, Sea Silver: Inside British Columbia's Salmon Farming Industry.
And on June 22, 2005, it was announced that A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming had become one of three finalists for the Second Annual George Ryga Award for Social Awareness, sponsored by CBC Radio, Okanagan College, BC Book World and the George Ryga Centre.
Signings
Gala launch for Gwen Southin's Death on a Short Leash -
Watch for:
The Permanent Secretary's Whore, by Betty Keller, a novel about the African adventures of a naive Canadian school teacher.
Scribes, a novel by Maureen Foss. Four would-be writers meet to critique each other's manuscripts and become inexorably involved in each other's lives.
Rosella Leslie's first novel, The Goat Lady's Daughter, was published by NeWest Press in September 2006 to a chorus of great reviews. Says Kimmy Beach, "In this extraordinary novel, Rosella Leslie envisions one of the most ramshackle yet thoroughly engaging families we're likely to see in Canadian fiction this year. With The Goat Lady's Daughter, she proves, in the style of Barbara Kingsolver, that our true families aren't always our relatives but are often those people we get stuck with and choose to keep."
A Stain Upon the Sea wins Roderick Haig-Brown Prize and becomes finalist for Second Annual George Ryga Award for Social Awareness!
At the BC Book Prizes Gala on April 30, 2005, A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming was awarded the Roderick Haig-Brown Prize given annually for the book which "merits distinction as the work contributing most to an appreciation of British Columbia." This book, written by Stephen Hume, Betty Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer, Alexandra Morton and Don Staniford, and published by Harbour Publishing in October 2004, contains a condensed version of Keller and Leslie's important 1996 book, Sea Silver: Inside British Columbia's Salmon Farming Industry.
And on June 22, 2005, it was announced that A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming had become one of three finalists for the Second Annual George Ryga Award for Social Awareness, sponsored by CBC Radio, Okanagan College, BC Book World and the George Ryga Centre.
Signings
Gala launch for Gwen Southin's Death on a Short Leash -
Watch for:
The Permanent Secretary's Whore, by Betty Keller, a novel about the African adventures of a naive Canadian school teacher.
Scribes, a novel by Maureen Foss. Four would-be writers meet to critique each other's manuscripts and become inexorably involved in each other's lives.
The Group
All of the Quintessential members were involved in the production of the Festival of the Written Arts' The Great Canadian Literary Cookbook, with Betty Keller and Gwen Southin acting as its editors.
Three books were published by group members in the fall of the year 2000: The Rat Trap Murders by Maureen Foss, Pender Harbour Cowboy: The Many Lives of Bertrand Sinclair by Betty Keller, and Death in a Family Way by Gwen Southin.
Two more appeared in the spring of 2001: The Sunshine Coast: A Place to Be by Rosella M. Leslie and Better the Devil You Know by Betty Keller.
New in 2002: In the Shadow of Death: A Margaret Spencer Mystery by Gwendolyn Southin, and Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's Working Tugboats co-authored by Betty Keller. New in 2004, A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming.
New in 2006, The Goat Lady's Daughter by Rosella Leslie
New in 2008, Death on a Short Leash by Gwen Southin
Look for them at your favourite bookstore or ORDER ONLINE Safely now.
Three books were published by group members in the fall of the year 2000: The Rat Trap Murders by Maureen Foss, Pender Harbour Cowboy: The Many Lives of Bertrand Sinclair by Betty Keller, and Death in a Family Way by Gwen Southin.
Two more appeared in the spring of 2001: The Sunshine Coast: A Place to Be by Rosella M. Leslie and Better the Devil You Know by Betty Keller.
New in 2002: In the Shadow of Death: A Margaret Spencer Mystery by Gwendolyn Southin, and Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's Working Tugboats co-authored by Betty Keller. New in 2004, A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming.
New in 2006, The Goat Lady's Daughter by Rosella Leslie
New in 2008, Death on a Short Leash by Gwen Southin
Look for them at your favourite bookstore or ORDER ONLINE Safely now.
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Touchwood Editions proudly announces
the Sunshine Coast launch
of Gwen Southin's third Margaret Spencer Mystery,
Death on a Short Leash,
at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt
on Friday, March 21, at 7:00 pm.
Come, bring a friend, and join the celebration of this new book and the re-issue of Gwen's two earlier Margaret Spencer Mysteries, Death in a Family Way and In the Shadow of Death.
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Touchwood Editions proudly announces
the Sunshine Coast launch
of Gwen Southin's third Margaret Spencer Mystery,
Death on a Short Leash,
at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt
on Friday, March 21, at 7:00 pm.
Come, bring a friend, and join the celebration of this new book and the re-issue of Gwen's two earlier Margaret Spencer Mysteries, Death in a Family Way and In the Shadow of Death.
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