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We're excited to announce Overcup's acquisition of Ruby McConnell’s new nonfiction collection of essays. The book is tentatively titled Ground Truth: A Personal and Cultural Geology of the Pacific Northwest and will be published in print and digital formats in spring, 2020. A geologist and author of the successful outdoor handbook A Woman’s Guide to the Wild, McConnell’s book will investigate the ways in which people of the Pacific Northwest region are knitted to the land where they live. McConnell says this new work is “a portrait of the forces and landscapes that have shaped one woman’s life in the Pacific Northwest,...

  Maryanna Hoggatt, author of children’s picture book Tolly, is known for her work as a sculptor and photographer. Tolly, and her other works translate many internal battles and feelings, as well as her inspirations and aspirations. It is this connection that allowed for her main character within Tolly to be born. Tolly delves into the importance of imagination and bravery through a young, imaginative raccoon. By merging her vast artistic ability and writing, Hoggatt is able to spark a lesson about bravery and defending one’s dreams.