News from Ruka Press

Dan with winning coverWe are thrilled to say that the cover of the book Horseshoe Crab: Biography of a Survivor was honored last night with an award from the Washington Book Publishers. The book, designed by our design arm, Sensical Design & Communication, was a winner in the annual Book Design and Effective Awards in the category Illustrated Cover, Commercial Publishers. We were competing with books from much larger publishers, including a number of our Washington museums, so it’s very exciting to be a winner.

This is the third time Sensical Design has been honored by the Washington Book Publishers, and the first time for Ruka Press. Special thanks to illustrator Leslie Prunty for her beautiful horseshoe crab painting.

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May 22nd, 2013 | No Comments »

Here are some upcoming events featuring Ruka Press authors.

Samuel Avery, author of The Pipeline and the Paradigm:

Katie Fallon, author of Cerulean Blues:

Joan Maloof, author of Among the Ancients:

In addition, Ruka Press will be exhibiting at the Capitol Hill Literary Bookfest, Sunday May 4 from 11:00 to 4:00. If you’re in the Eastern Market area, please stop in and say hello.

This weekend Samuel Avery made several appearances on local media in the Bay Area as part of his California tour. They’re a good introduction to the book and the subjects he discussed. We’ll link to other appearances soon.

Today is the official on-sale date for our new Ruka Press book, The Pipeline and the Paradigm: Keystone XL, Tar Sands, and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb by Samuel Avery. We’ve been shipping website orders of the paperback for the last couple of weeks, but as of today the ebook editions are available from us or from other online booksellers. The book is also officially available today from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, other online sellers, and your local independent bookseller.

The official release of The Pipeline and the Paradigm is still two weeks away, but if you order now from our website it will ship immediately—and at a 25% discount, too! Ebook versions will go on sale on the official publication date, April 23.

As attention to the Keystone XL increases this spring and summer, this book is the best way to get up to speed on the controversy surrounding the pipeline, and to learn how this project has become a symbol of the larger climate change and environmental battles of our time. Read a sample chapter here.

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