Authors

Sal Sawler

Sal Sawler is the award-winning author of four books including this one. They worked with YouTube star Frankie MacDonald to write Be Prepared: The Frankie MacDonald Guide to Life, the […]

Leo McKay Jr.

Leo McKay Jr.‘s best known book is the novel Twenty-six, which Canada Reads named one of the forty most important Canadian books of the first decade of the century. It […]

Marpheen Chann

Marpheen Chann, a second generation Asian American, is a writer, speaker, and gay man. In 2014, Chann was the first of his biological and adoptive families to graduate college. He […]

Margaret Hathaway

Margaret Hathaway and Karl Schatz are the husband and wife team behind five books on food and farming, including the memoir The Year of the Goat, the guide Living With […]

Ronald Joseph

Ronald Joseph, a retired wildlife biologist, is a frequent speaker in Maine. His stories have been published in numerous magazines including Down East and Maine Boats, Homes, and Harbors. Joseph […]

Marion Fearing

Marion Fearing, a graduate of Wheaton College, is the manager of Sherman’s Bookstore in Portland.

Karl Schatz

Karl is a photographer who has worked as an editor at Time, Inc., and as director of Aurora Photos. Since 2005, the couple has lived with their daughters on Ten […]

Roy Barrette

Roy Barrette got his first glimpse of Maine in 1919 while working as a deckhand on a coal barge. In 1958, after ten years at sea and a career as […]

Dean Lunt

Dean L. Lunt was born in the Maine island fishing village of Frenchboro, a member of the eighth generation of Lunts that called the remote island home. He attended the […]

Ruth C. Monsell

Ruth C. Monsell lives in Damariscotta, Maine, and winters in Charleston, SC, where she actively pursues the arts, including music, graphic arts, and theater. She earned a bachelor’s degree from […]