{"id":353,"date":"2015-10-14T21:54:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T21:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.granvilleislandpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2015-10-14T21:54:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T21:54:26","slug":"the-birth-of-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/the-birth-of-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of a Novel; Louis Druehl to Speak at SFU Burnaby at 11:30 am on October 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Louis Louis Druehl, <\/span><\/span>a marine botanist at Simon Fraser University for <\/span><\/span>36 years, will speak about his book Cedar, Salmon and Weed <\/i><\/a>at the Halpern Centre (next to the library) on the Burnaby campus on October 20 at 11:30 am.
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The talk is free and open to the public.\u00a0 Members of the audience are invited to join Louis and executive board for lunch at the Diamond Alumni Centre following the talk.<\/p>\n

Louis will explore the emotions, processes, frustrations, and satisfactions of creating his novel <\/span><\/span>. R<\/span><\/span>eminiscent of Steinbeck’s masterpiece, <\/span><\/span><\/span>Cannery Row<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>, Cedar, Salmon and Weed <\/em>is a tale of the 1970\u2019s Bamfield with its biologists, hippies, fishermen, natives and end-of-the-roaders, portraying minimal sex and violence, some piracy, dealing, marine science and loitering. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Louis Druehl is the editor of The New Bamfielder<\/em><\/a> and professor emeritus at SFU, where he taught and researched kelp. His best seller, Pacific Seaweeds<\/a><\/em>, introduced thousands to these little-appreciated plants; he even has a kelp genus<\/a> and species named after him. Louis was instrumental in establishing the Bamfield Marine Station, where he continues to work on restoring British Columbia\u2019s failing kelp beds. This year, he received a British Columbia Community Achievement Award for his contributions to Bamfield. He and his wife, Rae, run Canadian Kelp Resources, which produces sea vegetables.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What People Are Saying About Cedar, Salmon and Weed<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cExpertly and beautifully written\u2026so much action in this wonderfully gritty book\u2026\u201d Grant Lawrence<\/a>, author of Adventures in Solitude<\/em> and The Lonely End of the Rink<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Druehl captures an untidy, imperfect world of human flotsam and jetsam stranded on the kelp-strewn beaches, content, like Gaz and his girlfriend Heidi, to live their lives, to watch sunsets, to be with friends,” Pat Carney<\/a>, Senator (reitred) and author of Trade Secrets: A Memoir <\/em>and On Island.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cExpertly and beautifully written, the book absolutely drips with soggy coastal flavour…I could taste the salt air, and picture the harbour, ocean and land where so much of the action in this wonderfully gritty book is set.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Grant Lawrence<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span><\/span>Author of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Adventures in Solitude<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis novel would be worth reading just for the coastal ambience, even if the story weren\u2019t such an energetic romp.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Howard White<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span><\/span>Author, Publisher Harbour Publishing &Douglas & McIntyre<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cExpertly and beautifully written, the book absolutely drips with soggy coastal flavour…I could taste the salt air, and picture the harbour, ocean and land where so much of the action in this wonderfully gritty book is set.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Grant Lawrence<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span><\/span>Author of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Adventures in Solitude<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis novel would be worth reading just for the coastal ambience, even if the story weren\u2019t such an energetic romp.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Howard White<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span><\/span>Author, Publisher Harbour Publishing &Douglas & McIntyre<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Louis Druehl, a marine botanist at Simon Fraser University for 36 years, will speak about his book Cedar, Salmon and Weed at the Halpern Centre (next to the library) on the Burnaby campus on October 20 at 11:30 am. The talk is free and open to the public.\u00a0 Members of the audience are invited to join Louis and executive board for lunch at the Diamond Alumni Centre following the talk. Louis will explore the emotions, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}