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Epicenter Press Announces the Release of

Klee Wyck Journal: The Making of a Wilderness Retreat

Seattle, WA—In October 2017, Epicenter Press will release Klee Wyck Journal: The Making of a Wilderness Retreat (ISBN 978-1935347750, 7.5 x 9.25, paperback, full color interior, 288 pgs, $24.95) by debut author Lou McKee.

After many years of paddling the waterways and outer coasts of the Pacific northwest, author and artist Lou McKee planned a short kayaking trip near Vancouver Island with friends and family that unexpectedly became a yearly tradition. During the first trip that Pacific Northwestern summer, they chanced upon an enchanting stretch of beach and spent several days collecting stones polished by the ocean, exploring the nearby creek, and breathing in the wonder of untamed water and wilderness.

This remote coastal beach drew them back year after year, though the coastal rains become almost too much to endure. Thus, the Klee Wyck Cabin, as it came to be named, was borne from found cedar beach logs and other reclaimed wood to shield the travelers from summer storms. For a few weeks each year, friends and family came together to share stories, heartaches, celebrations, and the building of the tiny wilderness retreat cabin. Accessible only by boat through a spit bay otherwise open to the ocean surf, there are no roads to this remote location. Their only neighbors—black bears, wolves, whales, sea lions, and the local bird life—watched curiously as the strange humans came and went, bringing only the supplies they needed and taking their garbage away with them. Great Nootka cedars stood guardian over all.

Lou McKee took her journal and sketchbook with her to the cabin each year, documenting the process of building the cabin piece by piece, and rendering local flora and fauna in exquisite colored ink and pencil drawings. Collected together in print for the first time, Klee Wyck Journal brings together her observations, remarkable story of a lifetime on and near the water, and her sketches in full color.

Klee Wyck Cabin remains a destination for Lou’s family and friends. New memories created with new generations, new additions and conveniences added to the cabin, new trails struck, new songs and stories shared around the old campfire. Join her and extended family as she shares the story of her Klee Wyck Journal.

Lou McKee was born in 1942 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her childhood summers were spent on Texada Island, where she learned at an early age to swim and row a boat. She has worked as a watercolor painter, illustrator, greeting card artist, fabric and dinnerware designer, and most recently as an oil pastel painter. She bought her first ocean-going kayak at the age of twenty-eight, and she hasn’t looked back since.

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Epicenter Press Announces the Release of

What Happened in Craig: Alaska’s Worst Unsolved Mass Murder

Seattle, WA—In October 2018, Epicenter Press will release What Happened in Craig, the true account of the Investor tragedy, Alaska’s largest and most heinous unsolved mass murder, by author Leland Hale.

On a foggy afternoon in September of 1982 the Investor, a salmon fishing vessel, was engulfed in flames near the tiny village of Craig, Alaska. All efforts to stop the blaze were repulsed by the heat and fury of fire—until the blaze had run its course. Eight people, including a pregnant woman and two small children, were missing.

On the charred wreck of the Investor, troopers hoped to find evidence that the fire was accidental, and that the crew and family were away from the scene. Instead, they found bullet-ridden bodies. The investigation of the case and arrest of a former crewmember of the Investor became a nationwide sensation, with headlines appearing in the New York Times and People Magazine. John Kenneth Peel, a Bellingham fisherman was the center of the investigation and eventual trials for murder and arson. Convoluted motivations, family secrets, a lawyer bent on protecting his client, family members of the victims seeking answers swirl into a story only one person can know—and he isn’t telling.

Leland Hale, author of Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer, meticulously researched the events of the Investor tragedy, and when alibis don’t line up and witnesses doubt their own memory, Hale’s narrative pulls the unraveling story together into a book that will keep your attention long after you turn the final page.

Says Hale, “After publishing Butcher, Baker, I was looking for a follow-up title. My late Butcher, Baker coauthor, Major Walter J. Gilmour, suggested the Investor murder case in Craig, Alaska. I was immediately taken in by this complex story, with its Alaska-sized characters and (seemingly) endless plot twists.

Born in Seattle, Washington, Leland E. Hale started as an avid reader and slowly, but surely, became an avid writer. Blame it on the rain and the persistently gray skies of the Pacific Northwest. His most notable work is Butcher, Baker, the true crime story of serial-killer Robert Hansen. His work on that book turned him into a permanent fan of all things Alaska. That book also served as the inspiration for the film, The Frozen Ground, starring Nicolas Cage and John Cusack. Mr. Hale has written one novel, titled Huck Finn is Dead. His work on that book convinced him that his true love is nonfiction.

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Sample Product Descriptions

K Street Killing

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When a Capitol Hill fundraising soiree ends with a powerful K Street tycoon mysteriously tumbling off the rooftop, congressional staffer Kit Marshall must find the killer before her boss’s election season derails.

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At a fancy Washington fundraiser for Kit’s boss, Congresswoman Maeve Dixon, Kit and her best pal Meg do their best to woo wealthy lobbyists for campaign donations. When a powerful K Street tycoon mysteriously tumbles off the rooftop, Kit must spring into action to discover who killed the notorious Van Parker before Dixon’s candidacy sputters.

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It’s the height of campaign season, and instead of relishing newlywed bliss with her husband Doug Hollingsworth, Capitol Hill staffer Kit Marshall is busy with a tough reelection fight for her boss, member of Congress Maeve Dixon. Before Maeve and her staff—Kit included—leave Washington, D.C. to campaign full time in North Carolina, they have one last fundraising engagement.

On the iconic rooftop of a restaurant overlooking the Capitol and the Washington monument, Kit and her best pal Meg do their best to woo wealthy lobbyists for sizable campaign donations. Everyone’s enjoying the evening soiree until a powerful K Street tycoon mysteriously tumbles off the rooftop. Even with claims the fall must be suicide, Detective Maggie Glass and Kit aren’t so easily convinced the truth is so simple.

While balancing Doug’s mid-life career crisis, Kit must spring into action to discover who killed the notorious Van Parker before Dixon’s candidacy sputters, even if it means investigating Meg’s handsome new beau, the victim’s conniving widow, and a bicycle advocate hell-bent on settling a long-standing grudge. When a threatening note is left on Kit’s car, warning her to back off the investigation, Kit knows she’s closing in on the K Street killer.

Book 4 of the Washington Whodunit series, which began with Stabbing in the Senate.

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Little Annie Oakley and Other Rugged People

From the brick-paved streets of Boston and New England, to the deserts of Arizona, to the lush forests of the Pacific Northwest, beloved author and columnist Stewart Holbrook takes his readers down uncharted paths in a series of delightful pieces. Little Annie Oakley and Other Rugged People is pure Americana that delves into the myths of unhackneyed and motley people, and the places they made famous. Interspersed among character bits are rich historical views of places, the author’s own experiences in logging camps, and enthusiastic sketches of the near-extinct Yankee.

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Sled Dog Wisdom

Mushers love to share stories of the rare relationships they have with their sled dogs, whether they’re in the dog lot, out training, or competing in sprint, mid-distance, or thousand-mile races. As mushers learn time and again, the heart of a sled dog is filled with loyalty, determination, and full dose of quirkiness. This newly revised collection of quotes and stories will continue to inspire audiences everywhere. At times serious, but always heartwarming, Sled Dog Wisdom is a delightful book with full color photos, guaranteed to make you smile.

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Sample Website Announcements

A Bestseller Now Available in Audio
Epicenter Press is delighted to announce that the bestselling memoir On the Edge of Nowhere by James Huntington is now available in audio edition from Tantor Media.
Click the cover image to listen to a sample and get your instant-download copy today.

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Coming this Spring & Summer: Plucky Lawyer-Sleuth Annie MacPherson is Back in Print
Annie MacPherson is returning to Seattle, available soon from Epicenter Press, and for the first time ever in digital formats. Click the cover images to preorder.

Reviewers raved about Janet L. Smith’s and the Annie MacPherson Mystery Series

“An intelligent heroine, a glorious setting, an ingenious murder and a romance that doesn’t overwhelm the crime-solving procedures.”
—The New York Times

“Blessed by Smith’s scene-setting alchemy, her insight into character, and the immediacy and authority of her writing.”
—Kirkus Reviews

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Exploring Alaska by Canoe and by Air: Down the Wild River North and The Flight of the Arctic Tern, by Constance Helmericks
Epicenter Press is honored to republish six books that Alaskan author Constance Helmericks wrote during her years of roaming the Arctic.
Click the cover images to preorder.

Updated with photos and prefaces from Alaskan author Jean Aspen, these stories of travel, exploration, and survival in the Last Frontier bring to life a time no longer seen in the far north as technology and advanced travel become a new way of life.