Awards: submitted to National Outdoor Book Awards
Events: events in Colorado and New Mexico
Materials: ARCs, event posters, cross-marketing flyer with Meyers
and best of GAB Fly Fishing books
Online: Featured on author’s website StevenJMeyers.com and
www.GraphicArtsBooks.com.and on GAB Facebook page and dedicated
Facebook fan page “HomeWater”
Promotion: Goodreads, The Reading Room, and Indie Advance Access
giveaways and E-mail blast to author’s extensive client and contact
list
Reviews: Features, reviews, and excerpts targeted to Trade, Fly
Fishing, Outdoor, and Travel media
Sales: Targeted special sales marketing to fly fishing retail
stores through Angler's Supply
Tradeshows: Featured at Fly Fishing Shows (IFTD/ICAST), MPIBA,
Outdoor Retailer book giveaway
Acknowledgments
Preface to the WestWinds Press Edition
Introduction
Chapter 1 Of Meatballs, Swiss Cheese, and Sponges
Chapter 2 A Gothic Romance
Chapter 3 The Fisher and the Marten
Chapter 4 On Being Human
Chapter 5 Thoughts from the Real World
Chapter 6 Weaving the Tapestry
Chapter 7 The Naming of Names
Epilogue
Steven began his post-college career as a banker in New York City
but quickly discovered that banking was not his calling. After
completing graduate studies in Chicago, he moved to Denver to take
a job with a small publishing company, Sundance Publications.
Meyers has called the San Juan Mountains of Colorado home since the
spring of 1976 when Sundance relocated to Silverton. When the
publishing company returned to Denver, Meyers chose to stay in the
mountains. In 1987, he moved downriver to Durango.
In addition to working for the publishing company, during his time
in the region he worked in the Sunnyside Mine as an electrician, as
a member of a backcountry surveying crew and as an instructor in
the Ski School at Purgatory Ski Area. For twenty-four years he was
a member of the professional guide staff at Duranglers Flies and
Supplies. During this time he also worked as a photographer and
writer. His large format, black-and-white landscapes of the
American West have appeared in juried shows across the country.
While active as a photographer, he was represented by Alonzo
Gallery in New York City.
Steven has taught English and Writing at Fort Lewis College since
the winter of 2000. His writing has appeared in his published books
and also in numerous national publications and journals. In 1981 he
was the Colorado Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts,
Honored Artist. In 1992 he was awarded Colorado Council on the
Arts/Western States Arts Foundation CoVisions Grant. The Colorado
Endowment for the Humanities has twice named him the Colorado
Journeys featured author (1996, 2004).
“Reflecting on Homer's epic, photographer Meyers finds himself more
in sympathy with Penelope than with Odysseus. He prefers intimate
exploration of familiar places to heroic travel in distant lands;
thus he here reveals the essence of his home ground. Meyers has
written an extraordinarily sensitive account of one individual's
perceptions of and reactions to his surroundings: Lime Creek, a
small stream in the heart of the San Juan Mountains of southwestern
Colorado, where he has climbed many of the peaks, waded the
streambeds, fished and walked the woods in solitude. Earlier he had
been a surveyor on projects that held a threat to the environment,
and he ponders on the moral inconsistency in his attitudes toward
his work and his love of the land, focusing on his sense of
personal responsibility for the natural world about him. Lime Creek
represents joy and sorrow (the death of a loved one), but also hope
and renewal. Meyers is confident that life will go on there—as it
always has.” —Publishers Weekly
“Lime Creek Odyssey is a lovely ode to the natural world, very
powerful in its simplicity, in its respect for water, air, earth
and all other elements. It’s a love poem to the joy of our
remaining wild places, and a cautionary tale that we must act
quickly to save what we still have. It’s also a sad and beautiful
elegy to the passing seasons, to all the inevitable cycles and to
the deaths of people we love. To read it is to be renourished and
replenished in our souls just as Lime Creek is replenished each
springtime by the singing waters of melting snow.
The book is perfect in its low-key tone and lack of hysteria; it is
quite elegant in all its simple gentleness. By any and all
accounts, a work of art to savor.” —John Nichols, author of The
Milagro Beanfield War
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