Paul Guernsey

Had a lovely talk this morning about "RBtR" with Rob Caldwell from NewsCenterMaine's "207" feature show. It should air next week or the week after on WCSH. Stay tuned!

Among other book-promotion events we've got coming up for Rolling Back the River this coming week, we have a television interview scheduled for Monday, March 23, with Rob Caldwell, host of the NewCenterMaine feature show 207 on WCSH. I'm not sure when, exactly, the interview will air, but I will post here when I have that information. Later in the week, I'll be signing books at the Maine Sportsman's Show in Augusta on Friday, Mach 27 through Sunday, March 29th, working out of the booth of my friend, Master Maine Fishing Guide Sean McCormick, owner and operator of Blue Heron Fly Fishing guide service. On the evening of March 27, starting at 5 p.m., I'll be reading from RBtR and signing books at Selene's Fly Shop in Gardiner, and on Saturday evening, March 28, starting at 6 p.m., I'll be signing books at the Waldo Theater in beautiful downtown Waldoboro Maine, where there will also be a screening of this year's Fly Fishing Film Tour features. If you're at one, two, or all of those events, please stop by and say hello! 

Our last book giveaway—10 copies of Rolling Back the River via Goodreads—was so successful that we're now running another one . . . this time for 25 SIGNED copies of the book! So if you'd like a chance, at no cost to you, of winning one of those copies, head over to Goodreads right now and put your name in the hat. Good luck! 

I gave a presentation on fly fishing in Maine at the Great Waters Fly Fishing Show on March 14. I was able to sell quite a few copies of Rolling Back the River" as well. Great time. Thanks to Bob and Lisa White for their hospitality. 

Folks: If you acquire Rolling "Back the River" from Amazon, or if you acquired it somewhere else but have bought things from Amazon over the past year, that makes you eligible as a reviewer . . . so please don't forget to rate us or even give us a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads when you're able. That would help a lot. Please and thank you . . . Paul

Paul Guernsey has a new book out in the world—his fourth novel. The title is Rolling Back the River, published by Stackpole Books, an imprint of Globe Pequot, and in addition to being a literary adventure story, it contains strong elements of magical realism and is mostly set in Argentina, home country of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, two pioneers of the magical realism movement. The protagonist of RBtR is a man from Maine named Vincent Mapp, an expert and passionate fly fisherman who, as he proceeds through his angling adventures on two continents, in addition to viewing himself as having embarked on a quest for a sacred grail in the form of an elusive, and perhaps mythical, salmon, is also powerfully motivated by vivid dreams that serve to warn him and instruct him about where he has gone wrong in his life. Rolling Back the River is Paul Guernsey's fourth novel—all of which, in addition to being adventures are also works of magic realism—and if you'd like to put your name in the magic Goodreads hat for a chance at winning a free book, signed by the author, you can do that here. 

Thanks to HATCH Magazine for publishing an excerpt from my novel, "Rolling Back the River." I shaped half of the first chapter into a complete short story called "Succession," just as I did with part of a later chapter that came out in the October issue of "Gray's Sporting Journal" under the title "Somewhere Else." I hear that a HATCH book review is in the works as well. READ "Sucession." 

Here's a LINK to the Portland Press Herald story about Rolling Back the River that was published earlier this week. Enjoy! 

I recently learned that RBtR has review coming out in the next couple of weeks in the sping issue of TROUT Magazine,  the publication that goes out to every Trout Unlimited member. TROUT  editor Kirk Deeter posted a snippet of the review, which you can read above. As you can see from this sample, the review is a pretty good one. I you want to see Kirk's full preview of the magazine issue . . . here it is. Cheers — Paul 

Ernie Schwiebert's lifesize Illustration of a landlocked salmon he caught from Argentina's Traful River—on display over the fireplace at Arroyo Verde Lodge. There has been some controversy over how large that fish actually was . . . with the upper limit at over 19 pounds. Landlocked were introduced to Patagonian waters from Maine's Sebago Lake in 1904 . . . a fact that plays a large role in my novel, "Rolling Back the River," which will be officially published on Tuesday, 2/17.