The Name Game

Vancouver-based publishing company, Summit Studios, launched a new book in its series of humorous travel anthologies in 2009. This newest offering, Never Trust a Smiling Bear, continues with the theme of its four previous volumes, which are all subtitled “True Tales to Make You Laugh, Chortle, Snicker and Feel Inspired.” My travel story entitled The Name Game has been selected for this anthology and is available at all bookstores and provincial park gift shops across Canada.  

Matt Jackson, publisher of Summit Studios and editor of the five books, is currently traveling across Canada to promote the newest book and will be in the Chapters bookstores in London, Ontario on Thursday, October 14^th. Jackson started the series in 2006 with the bestselling title Mugged by a Moose. And from there, he hasn’t stopped, following up with I Sold My Gold Tooth for Gas Money, A Beaver Ate My Canoe, and A Bear Stole My Fishing Boat (formerly titled I Learned Kung Fu From a Bear Cub). Each book contains an assortment of travel and outdoor stories, from hitchhiking across Canada to eating grubs in the Amazon rainforest. As the titles and covers of each book convey, many of the stories recount unexpected encounters with wildlife; this newest publication is no different with stories ranging from bears breaking into cottages to use the bathroom to epic fishing battles between man and salmon. And, of course, all of the stories deal with those circumstances that crop up when something out-of-the-ordinary occurs, causing the reader to smirk at the curious happenings of travel.