September 6, 2016: Online book launch of The Spawning Grounds

Gail Anderson-Dargatz

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Today is the day! Please join me here, on this thread, this evening of September 6, 2016, as I celebrate the release of my literary novel, The Spawning Grounds. The event runs 5 p.m. PST/ 8 p.m. EST to 7 p.m. PST/10 EST.

I'll offer an intimate view of the inspirations for this novel along with an online reading.

Throughout the event, we'll have a panel discussion, with everyone who joins us, on the issues that stop us from finishing a project, and how to overcome them. The Spawning Grounds took me nearly a decade to complete, so I have a thing or two to say about that, as I'm sure many of you do.

Please note only members of this forum, writers I've worked with in one way or another, can comment on this thread, but this forum is open to a public "audience."

Others can join the chat on Twitter during the event: #TheSpawningGrounds. I'll be there! Follow me @AndersonDargatz
 
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I'm tickled to say The Spawning Grounds made the Chatelaine best 2016 fall books list, #1 on Lone Stars and advanced reviews have been amazing. Here's a taste (brag warning ;)):

"Exquisite and Timely Novel: The Spawning Grounds is Unputdownable.

With The Spawning Grounds, Gail Anderson-Dargatz has written a masterpiece of a novel which has her joining the ranks of Isabel Allende and Alice Hoffman, in the realm of magical realism. Without a doubt it is her best novel to date ...

It is a gorgeously described story, the landscape as vividly painted as the shimmering mating salmon at its centre. The pace is urgent, making the book impossible to put down once begun, and the layers of emotion and suspense simply enthral ...

✪✪✪✪✪ Five outstanding, mesmerizing stars! Highly recommended!"


"Beginning with the most stunning opening chapter I’ve read in years, The Spawning Grounds envelops us in its electric currents: the mysteries of a troubled family, a damaged nation, a defiled river, and the great rich spirit of the sockeye salmon—climaxing in a storm of lives struggling to renew themselves and the spirit of a magical place."

Brian Brett, award-winning author of Trauma Farm and Tuco: The Parrot, the Others and the Scattershot World.​

“You must read The Spawning Grounds, a stunning tour de force about the conflict between cultures, generations, nature and man. Magical yet profoundly down to earth, Gail Anderson-Dargatz tells stories within stories, shifting back and forth through time, to create a kaleidoscopic tapestry, unified by the frightening presence of a spirit seeking to right wrongs. I was so deeply moved by this beautifully written, spellbinding novel I read it twice.”

Sandra Gulland, author of the internationally bestselling Josephine B. Trilogy​

Click on The Spawning Grounds for more about the novel.

To preorder The Spawning Grounds, please support your local independant bookseller, or buy online through Chapters Indigo, Amazon.ca, or McNally Robinson. To preorder an ebook, buy online through Amazon Kindle, Google, eBooks.com, or Kobo.
 
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Gail Anderson-Dargatz

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Eva has blogged on my site. In fact many of the writers who have joined us today have written guest blogs for my site. In fact, a great many of Canada’s best established and emerging writers have blogs here. Check out the list: http://www.gailanderson-dargatz.ca/cms/index.php/blogs/guest-blogs

Gail, congratulations on the launch of The Spawning Grounds!
Hey June! June Hutton is another author who has blogged on my site. Check out her take on writing from history, as she released her book, Two-Gun & Sun. http://www.gailanderson-dargatz.ca/cms/index.php/blogs/guest-blogs/35-guest-blogs/259-june-hutton-2
 

Gail Anderson-Dargatz

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Folks, while we're waiting for everyone to get seated, I'd like to introduce you to my husband, Mitch Krupp. Mitch is joining us from Prince Rupert today, where he’s teaching GIS at the Coastal Training Centre through the First Nations Technology Council. Mitch has been teaching GIS in First Nations communities around the province both through Okanagan College and through the First Nations Technology Council for many years. GIS is Geographic Information Systems. In short, that’s mapmaking, but it’s also so much more. It’s a way of making sense of data. Our First Nations communities use GIS in many ways, including resource management and traditional land use assessment.

Mitch is the tech support behind my website, my teaching forums, and the artist behind the photographs you see on my site and in the videos I’ve posted today. You’ll also see his photos in my last novel, Turtle Valley. As you’ll see from my blog on the landscape behind The Spawning Grounds, his photographs of the Thompson Shuswap region helped me sculpt the fictional landscape in this novel, which is most definitely a character in its own right.

Mitch is also my brainstorming buddy, as he was thirty years ago when I first started writing, so he’s had a huge impact on my writing life.
 
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