• Incorporates conservationist concerns for natural habitats, ecosystems, and keystone species and discusses potential threats such as earthquakes, droughts, and invasive species. 
• Each of the four sections—one for each season—highlights events in nature, along with observations and travels taken by the author. Includes basic information on the plants, animals, social history, parks, and communities encountered. 
• The first-person narrative has a calm pace and gentle tone that invites the reader in.
• Juxtaposes climatic, environmental, and social differences in life by the Salish Sea and on the mainland, specifically in Alberta. 
• Excerpts from this book have previously been published in BCnature and the anthology Writing the West Coast (Ronsdale Press, 2008).
• Includes 100+  full-colour photographs throughout, taken by Vancouver Island photographer and artist Nancy Randall.
• Carolyn Redl is accomplished and connected to the local writing community. She was a creative writing instructor at the undergraduate level for more than 30 years. She has written and published short stories, travel articles, and poetry in books, anthologies, journals, and newspapers. She continues to conduct writing courses and workshops. 

Carolyn Redl taught literature and creative writing for over thirty years. During that time, she also wrote and published essays, short stories, poems, travel articles, and book reviews in publications such as The Edmonton Journal, AMA Insider, Prairie Journal of Canadian Fiction, and University of Toronto Quarterly. Redl is the co-producer of “A Woman I Know: Canadian Literature by Women,” an eight-part series of programs for ACCESS, the Education Channel. She has lived on Vancouver Island on the unceded territories of the coast Salish people since 2001.

Nancy Randall is a photographer and artist, whose work focuses on the wonders of the Salish Sea region. She has chaired the boards of art galleries in Kamloops and Nanaimo, and is the founding director of the Vancouver Island University Teaching and Learning Centre, where she was also a faculty member. Since retiring, she has taught for the University of Victoria’s Healthy Aging programs and VIU’s ElderCollege program.

Media + Publicity Plans

• Targeted print, online, and broadcast media outreach: Quill & Quire, CBC On Island, CTV Vancouver Island, CFAX 1070, Victoria Times Colonist, BC BookWorld, BC Outdoors, BC Magazine, CHEK TV, Discovery magazine, Monday Magazine, SOAR Magazine, etc.
• Excerpts planned for Victoria Times Colonist and SOAR Magazine
• Outreach to nature, gardening, and botanical organizations such as BCnature, Victoria Naturalist, Vancouver Natural History Society, Victoria Natural History Society, Native Plant Society of BC, Federation of BC Naturalists, Canadian Botanical Association, West Coast N.E.S.T., etc.
• Social media campaigns, influencer outreach, digital collateral for online use
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's speaking engagements
• Pitches to local literary festivals such as Victoria Festival of Authors, Denman Island Literary Festival, Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, Sidney LitFest, Paper Covers Rock - Salt Spring Island Literary Festival. 
  Advertising in BC BookWorld, BC Magazine, BC Studies, etc.
• Submission to relevant literary awards such as the BC & Yukon Book Prizes, Victoria Book Prizes, Governor General Literary Awards, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) Book Award, etc.
• Outreach to travel and tourism organizations on Vancouver Island
• Launch event to take place in Victoria; potential readings and events in other Vancouver Island communities
• Electronic ARCs
• Excerpts available

"This is a book that will delight many readers, and a perfect gift for friends and family you want to lure to the Pacific coast. Recommended."
—Vancouver Sun

“A series of lovely excursions in a beautiful part of the world. These warmly shared stories and photos feel like a visit with friends.”
—Bill Arnott, bestselling author of A Season on Vancouver Island

“Four Seasons by the Salish Sea is more than an introduction to the natural world of the Salish Sea—it is a personal story of how to get the most out of west coast living. Carolyn Redl weaves the natural rhythm of the Salish Sea into her beguiling adventures in and around the Salish Sea.”
—Robert Butler, ornithologist and co-author of Pacific Flyway

“Carolyn Redl's lively and engaging narrative, punctuated with remarkable images, explores the places, people, wildlife, and habitats that make Vancouver Island and the Salish Sea such special places in all seasons. Reading Four Seasons by the Salish Sea is the next best thing to being there.”
—Joy Davis, author of Complicated Simplicity: Island Life in the Pacific Northwest