Books

Stories
	High Cols and Deep Canyons: (June 2024): A memoir of a life spent in wild country, learning to understand and appreciate the magnificence of nature. This book explores the relationship between family, friendship, nature and the wild human soul. Set in the Canadian Rockies, the canyons of Utah and Arizona, and the breathtaking coast of British Columbia, High Cols and Deep Canyons is a story of ordinary adventures in extraordinary places.
	Taking a Break from Saving the World: When you devote your life to making the world a better place, sometimes you need to take a break to save yourself. Burnout, and the physical and emotional impacts it can have, can lead to serious health challenges. Taking a Break from Saving the World is a book about how to recognize the signs and symptoms of burnout, how to prevent them, manage them, and recover from them
	Imagine this Valley: The Bow Valley of Alberta has been a sacred place for more than 10,000 years. Imagine This Valley is a collection of essays by twenty-five prominent Canadian writers exploring what the Bow Valley means to them, their families and their lives.
	Running Toward Stillness: A book about the intersection of running, Buddhism and parenting, based on 6 years of intense upheaval and change in the author’s life. Exploring themes of fidelity, family, love, spirituality, friendship and faith, Running Toward Stillness is a book of deeply moving and passionate short essays about our relationship with each other, the world around us, and the world within.
	Carry Tiger to Mountain: After a lifetime of conservation and environmental activism, there are few things Stephen feels certain about: there is no straight line between where we want to get to, and where we are now; Water can teach us nearly everything we need to know about overcoming obstacles; and love, patience and compassion are far more effective as our sword and shield than fear, hate, and anger.
Photography
	Where Rivers Meet: Before dreaming of becoming a writer, Stephen imagined life as a National Geographic photographer. That didn’t happen; not yet, but he has produced two books of photography for your viewing pleasure: Where Rivers Meet…
	…and Earth and Sky. Each book features more than 200 colour and black-and-white photographs, and a selection of inspiring essays about the history, culture, and natural history of what Stephen considers his home range.
Mystery
	Durrant Wallace. The Third Riel Conspiracy and the End of the Line. Wallace is a North West Mounted Police sergeant who, after losing a leg in a confrontation with whiskey traders, can no longer mount a horse. A murder along the Canadian Pacific Railway in the winter of 1884-85 saves the proud veteran of the Ride West from a life of census taking and postal duties when he is dispatched to the end of the line to solve the brutal crime.
	These two novels (there are more to come, sometime) are set in the 1880s in the frontier of the Dominion of Canada. Meticulously researched, and populated with characters that are endearing and enduring, the Durrant Wallace series is a “wild ride” as one reviewer put it.
	Silas Person (The Red Rock Canyon Mystery Series) The Slickrock Paradox, Black Sun Descending, and The Same River Twice. Silas Pearson is looking for his wife, missing now for three years. He’s left his position in the Faculty of English Literature at Northern Arizona University and lives in the Castle Valley, near Moab, Utah so he can search for Penelope in her last known location; the vast canyonlands of the American Southwest.
	After three years and thousands of miles of foot search, he is close to giving up when a dream leads him to a location made famous by Edward Abbey, deep in the canyons of Arches National Park. When he finds a body in the aftermath of a flash flood, he’s shocked to learn it isn’t Penelope.
	Pearson must follow the clues left by his absent wife to solve more than one missing person mystery. Set in a landscape of mystery and majesty, the Silas Person series touches on the edge of magical realism in its inquiry into grief, loss, anger and redemption.
	The Cole Blackwater series is a contemporary mystery series (The Cardinal Divide, The Darkening Archipelago, The Vanishing Track and the Glacier Gallows.) The Blackwater books are set predominantly in British Columbia and Alberta. Cole is a character based on a mash-up of environmental activists Stephen has worked with over the past 30 years. Deeply flawed, violent, impulsive and caring to a fault…
	The series explores important societal issues such as headwater conservation, salmon farming, healthy oceans, poverty and homelessness, all through the lens of a gripping murder mystery genre.
	The issues in these books – coal mining in the Rocky Mountains, Salmon Farming on the West Coast, homelessness in the downtown eastside, and the exploitation of nature for personal profit – are all real challenges Stephen has worked on as a conservation activist. The stories are from his over-ripe imagination.
	These two novels (there are more to come, sometime) are set in the 1880s in the frontier of the Dominion of Canada. Meticulously researched and populated with endearing and enduring characters, the Durrant Wallace series is a “wild ride” as one reviewer put it.