Table of Contents

Introduction, by David Joy
Gould’s Inlet , Taylor Brown
Lullaby, J.C. Sasser
Fishing Lessons, Ron Rash
In Lightning Past, M.O. Walsh
Lobstering with Griff, Ingrid Thoft
The Mullet Girls, jill McCorkle
The Simple Angle(r), Erik Storey
Dream Fishing, Drew Lanham
Paducah ’80, J. Todd Scott
Some Crazy Sh*t, Frank Bill
A Dream of Trout, Eric Rickstad
For My Father, William Boyle
The Wooly Bugger Talk, Scott Gould
The Year of the Mackeral, Mark Powell
Frogging Quintana, Natalie Baszile
Truth or Consequences: The One That Didn’t Get Away, Michael Farris Smith
Bait, Chris Offutt
Shark Bait, Leigh Ann Henion
Fishing Lessons: An Essay in Two Acts, Gabino Iglesias
Past the Banks, Ray McManus
Sucker, Jim Minick
The Encampment: The Hotter, Younger Sister, C.J. Box
Temporal, Todd Davis
Some Thoughts on Marriage Before I Wed, Rebecca Gayle Howell
Memory of Water, Silas House

Promotional Information

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.

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.

Reviews

"Come for the fish stories, but stay for the writing—it sparkles like the flank of a mullet, thumps like the tail of a bull redfish, and leaps off the page like a tarpon." -—David DiBenedetto, Editor in Chief, Garden & Gun Magazine

"Novelists Joy (The Line That Held Us) and Rickstad (What Remains of Her) have pulled off the feat of assembling a fishing anthology that even non-anglers can enjoy, featuring essays from various writers that pay tribute to the beauty, peacefulness, and, sometimes, humor that accompany this pursuit." —Publishers Weekly