Green Writers Press is thrilled to announce the release of Tim Weed’s new short fiction collection, A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing.
A high mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies is the point of departure for these stories of dark adventure, in which fishing guides, amateur sportsmen, scientists, mountaineers, and expatriates embark on disquieting journeys of self-discovery in far-flung places: the hazardous tidal waters of Nantucket, the granite quarries and ski slopes of New Hampshire, Venezuela’s Orinoco basin, the ancient squares and alleyways of Rome and Granada, the summit of an Andean volcano, and the tension-filled streets of eastern Cuba.
A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing has been shortlisted for the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project, the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, and the Lewis-Clark Press Discovery Award. Stories in the collection have appeared in Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Writers Digest, and elsewhere. “The Afternoon Client” won the 2013 Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards, and “Tower Eight” was the Grand Prize winner for Outrider Press’s The Mountain anthology. Other stories have been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net anthologies and shortlisted for numerous international literary awards.
Praise for A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing
“These stories bristle with energy and immediacy. The outside world will fall away as the places and people of Weed’s stories inhabit your mind. The writing is spare and meticulous and packs a hefty emotional punch . . . I am not exaggerating when I say this collection kept me up at nights. I just couldn’t stop reading.” — Jenny Lyons, The Vermont Book Shop (Addison Independent)
A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER AND FLY FISHING has been shortlisted for the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project, the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, and the Lewis-Clark Press Discovery Award. Click here to listen to Tim’s seven-minute radio interview about the collection with Mitch Wertlieb of Vermont Public Radio.
“Tim Weed’s A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing is a fiction collection of the first order. I found myself parceling out the stories to make them last. These are stories that will live a long time both on the page and in your heart.” —Joseph Monninger, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, author of Whipporwill and The World as We Know It.
“Each story is a jewel, cracking open what matters most: love, family, and our big beautiful planet.” —Ann Hood, author of The Obituary Writer and The Book That Matters Most
“In his first short story collection, novelist Tim Weed shows his stunningly impressive range— transporting readers from the heights of the Andes and the depths of the Amazon to the backstreets of Rome and Granada. Many of Weed’s stories have a hint of the mysterious, even the supernatural, but they are all grounded in sharply-rendered material worlds so fresh one feels one might step directly into the literary photographs he has created and stroll around for a while. A top-notch debut, not to be missed.”
—Jacob Appel, author of Einstein’s Beach House
“From the mountain lakes of the Colorado Rockies to the cobbled streets of Spain, this fascinating collection of short stories by Vermont-based writer Tim Weed (Will Poole’s Island) never disappoints. The stories are more about choices than they are about fly fishing or murder, but time and again Weed’s vivid characters in these thirteen tales of dark adventure are forced to confront a vision of themselves—or others—that’s not quite as positive as they’d hoped . . . A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing is a collection you’ll be happy to get lost in.”
—Julie Reiff, Ploughshares
About the Author
Tim Weed lives in Vermont and spends as much as possible of his non-writing time outdoors. He’s the winner of a Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Award and his work has appeared in Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, The Millions, Backcountry, Nantucket Magazine, Writer’s Chronicle, and many other journals and anthologies. Tim’s first novel, Will Poole’s Island (2014), was named one of Bank Street College of Education’s Best Books of the Year. He’s the co-founder of the Cuba Writers Program and a featured expert for National Geographic Expeditions in Cuba, Spain, and Tierra del Fuego. Read more at www.timweed.net.
SPECS:
Fiction
Hardcover
240 pages; Hardcover with jacket; $24.95
Pub Date: April 7, 2017
ISBN: 978-0997452877
E-Book
ISBN: 978-0998701202
Available on iTunes, Nook, KOBO, Kindle for $7.99
Audiobook
7 hours and 10 minutes
Available via Audible: $13.97
Coming soon via LibroFM
Paperback
266 pages; Softcover; $16.95
Pub Date: May 15, 2018
ISBN: 978-0997452846
Available wherever books are sold and from your local, independent bookstore.
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