Gather at the River

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Twenty-Five Authors on Fishing

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Gather at the River is an anthology of twenty-five essays that delve into the multifaceted experience of fishing. Edited by David Joy and Eric Rickstad, the collection goes beyond angling tales to explore themes of friendship, family, love, and loss. Contributors include acclaimed authors like Ron Rash, C.J. Box, and Jill McCorkle, who share personal reflections on rivers and waterways that hold deeper meanings than the fish themselves. This anthology captures moments of renewal, reverie, and the profound connections formed beside the water.
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Ideal for fans of nature writing and sports enthusiasts, particularly those with an interest in fishing and outdoor life. The anthology's literary quality also appeals to readers who appreciate reflective essays on human connection and landscapes.

A fishing anthology about friendship, family, love and loss, and everything in between from New York Times Bestselling Authors like Ron Rash, Jill McCorkle, Leigh Ann Henion, Eric Rickstad, M.O. Walsh, and #1 Bestseller C.J. Box.

Sales Points / Marketing Angles: David Joy has high name recognition in the South. Eric Rickstad is New York Times bestselling. Both editors have powerful online followings: David Joy boasts a strong and faithful Internet following, with Twitter followers @DavidJoy_Author nearing 11.4K. He is active on social media, a dogged self-promoter, and will be marketing this book on his store visits on his 2018 tour. He writes often for major outlets like Time and the New York Times Magazine, as well as regular contributor to Garden & Gun. Eric Rickstad is also active on Twitter with over 20k followers. Review in Garden & Gun confirmed. Other glossies will feature in Father's Day gift guides. There aren’t many books that combine fishing with good literary writing. Cross country appeal. Not only southerners: CJ Box, Todd Davis, Leigh Ann Henion and others live across the country. A number of the contributors have recent big books (Silas House and Natalie Baszile), while others are perennial bestsellers (Ron Rash, Jill McCorkle, CJ Box) Illustrations are tasteful but add an appeal for gifting (especially during the dads and grads) Outreach to outfitter stores, fishing magazines, outdoor recreation magazines. Charity angle: some of the proceeds of every sale will benefit C.A.S.T. for Kids, public charity that joins volunteers who love to fish with children who have special needs and disadvantages for a day of fishing in the outdoors.

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From editors David Joy and Eric Rickstad comes Gather at the River, an anthology of twenty-five remarkable essays on fishing from an ensemble of contemporary authors. Their experiences explore the ways we come to water, for renewal and reverie, or to simply stand waist-deep in a river and watch the trout rise.

Gather at the River is more than a collection of big fish stories; it’s Ron Rash writing about the Appalachia of his youth and C.J. Box revealing the river where he wants his ashes spread. It’s Natalie Baszile on a frogging expedition in the Louisiana Bayou and a teenaged Jill McCorkle facing new realities of adulthood on Holden Beach, North Carolina. This is an anthology about friendship, family, love and loss, and everything in between, because as Henry David Thoreau wrote, “it is not really the fish they are after.”

The contributors are an eclectic mix of critically acclaimed writers including New York Times Bestselling Authors Ron Rash, Jill McCorkle, Leigh Ann Henion, Eric Rickstad, M.O. Walsh, and #1 Bestseller C.J. Box.

Some of the proceeds of every sale will benefit C.A.S.T. for Kids, a public charity that joins volunteers who love to fish with children who have special needs and disadvantages for a day of fishing in the outdoors.

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Praised by David DiBenedetto of Garden & Gun Magazine for its vibrant and evocative writing, the anthology appeals even to non-anglers. Publishers Weekly highlights the editors' success in assembling essays that celebrate the beauty, calm, and occasional humour of fishing, making it accessible and engaging for a broad readership.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781938235528

Publisher: Hub City Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 June 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Hub City Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by David Joy
Edited by Eric Rickstad

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 216

Collections

Biography & Memoir Fishing & Hunting Non-Fiction Science & Nature Sports

About the Author

Eric Rickstad is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of the Canaan Crime Series novels, which includes THE NAMES OF DEAD GIRLS, THE SILENT GIRLS, and LIE IN WAIT. These dark, psychological page-turners, set in remote northern Vermont, are heralded as masterful, disturbing, profound and heartbreaking. Rickstad's first novel, REAP, was a New York Times Noteworthy Novel. His latest novel WHAT REMAINS OF HER will be published July 24, 2018.

Rickstad lives in Vermont with his wife, son, and daughter, and writes all his first drafts with a pencil in notebooks, often outside in the Vermont woods.