Tellwell Publishing Presents.

The wilderness is home to me. Some of the lessons I have learned through trial and error, hunger and fear are all captured within the pages of this novel. 

Within the wilderness, there are creatures that will follow you as you traverse a forest trail. There are those that will watch as you paddle across a lake or along a river. 

Our senses are too dull to be aware of their presence. If you are quiet and introspective, you will feel their energy as it probes you. 

This book explores that feeling. The protagonist is hunted by something which is unseen and impossible, it can't exist. Or does it? 

Something is watching me!

 

In my book, "A Long Paddle Home," the protagonist is haunted by his past and by a mysterious creature which follows his every move. 

In order to write the sentences within the story, I had to feel them first. 

With that goal in mind, I took a journey through Algonquin Park to the very place where a huge revelation within the story happens. The old Pine River Logging site on the Tim River. 

As I paddled toward the portage from Queer lake to the Tim River, the mist enshrouded shoreline allowed my imagination to run free. 

It was there within the mist that I was finally able to see the entity which wanders through the pages of "A Long Paddle Home." 

Shivers ran through me as I realized that this creature could actually exist.  

All indigenous cultures have a name for it. 

I call it - Agawaatesin.