The Fisher Queen
Sylvia Taylor’s literary memoir chronicling the commercial salmon industry, Canada’s Wild West and a way of life changed forever when she signed on as a rookie deckhand on a wallowy 40-foot salmon troller.
[callout]I am writing to congratulate you on your amazing book The Fisher Queen. So well written I couldn’t put it down. I have always loved the working boats of British Columbia and your book gave me an inside look at life on a Pacific Troller. Seeing it through your eyes was actually like being there.” – Robb Douglas March 2014 Read full review…[/callout]
[callout]”You ARE the Fisher Queen, fishing for literary souls … and you will turn every crazy sea-swept moment into the greatest catch ever read!”- Rupert Macnee, documentary film maker, Jan 2012 [/callout]
[callout]”A fine show, particularly special guest Sylvia Taylor, who had us all gasping at her story-telling elegance.” Denis Bolen, author[/callout]
[callout] “Sylvia Taylor was absolutely amazing. A very moving story.” – Warren Dean Fulton, author April, 2011[/callout]
[callout]”I loved this book Sylvia. Your personality shines throughout the narrative. Interesting, humorous and tense..what a great read! Congratulations.” – Kay Johnston, Coordinator, Shuswap Writers Festival, November, 2014[/callout]
[callout]”Great work! I really enjoyed it – and had forgotten how very relaxing it is to listen to someone read (and write) well.” – Ursula Maxwell-Lewis – Cloverdale Reporter News Read full review…[/callout]
[callout]”The Fisher Queen is a wonderful read. I was captivated, and quickly turned the pages to keep reading and take my mind away into the watery world.” – Penny McDonald, President, North Shore Writers Assoc 2013 Read full review…[/callout]
[callout]”If there was a tab for ‘loved it’, I would have chosen that. You showed this city kid a world that I could only imagine. In awe of your experience and your skill at taking me there.” – Janice Lauria-Brown, author, 2015[/callout]
[callout]” I have laughed, I have cried and felt like I was home again as I read your pages.” – Nicalena Chidley, Kyuquot, Sept 2013 Read full review… [/callout]
[callout]”Your book captured fishing on an ice boat exactly as it was in the early 80’s and encased that ugly period when interest rates and salmon abundance were going in opposite directions.” – J Hughes, 2014 Read full review…[/callout]
[callout]”Just finished reading the Fisher Queen and trying to steady my sea legs. Laughed, cried, held my breath — can not wait to meet the tough gal who lived to tell the tale!” – Denise Marcheaullt, author, White Rock, 2014[/callout]
[callout]”It is an adventure all by itself, never mind the exciting world it describes. It is a great book.” – Will Goede, Vancouver, 2014 Read full review…[/callout]
Beckoned by the Sea
A powerful tribute to the timeless beauty and mystery of the sea and the Pacific Northwest. Through memoir and biography her insightful and multi-faceted reveal of this unique bioregion ties together the lifestories of 24 women entwined with the sea.
[callout] “Sylvia spoke with the authority that comes from experience, but deftly stepped back with grace to let her subjects shine.” – Anne Bryant – Open Boat Review Read full review…[/callout]
[callout]”Beckoned by the Sea can be distinguished from …other books by the time and care Taylor has taken to explore the ways in which identity, gender, and work are intertwined in each of these women’s lives.” – Molly Clarkson – The Ormsby Review Read full review…
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[callout]”Books about trailblazing women are necessary stepping stones to progress.” – Caroline Woodward – BC Bookworld Read full review… [/callout]
[callout]”Intriguing characters, one and all, this is a book you can dip into – as if it’s its own ocean of conversations.” – Heidi Greco – Read BC Read full review…[/callout]
[callout]”The voices of two dozen women whose lives are influenced by or devoted to the sea resound in Vancouver-based Sylvia Taylor’s engaging book.” – Marianne Scott – Currents Read full review… [/callout]
[callout]”Taylor’s profiles include, as one reviewer writes, “the expected, and nonetheless gratifying, stories of big seas…” – Hakai Magazine Read full review… [/callout]
[callout]”A woman sits in the window of her modest yellow cottage filled with memorabilia of generations of the Kimoto family’s life on the west coast of Vancouver Island…” – Victoria Times Colonist Read full review…
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