I remember the first time I approached Bill Duthie with a locally-published book. It was issue number one of our flagship publication, Raincoast Chronicles. I’d been around the city getting the bum’s rush from everybody and I was feeling like a kicked dog. Duthie’s was the prestige store even then and I fully expected to get the same treatment from him, so I went through the motions of explaining that we were trying to put the character of rural BC on the literary map, feeling completely ridiculous and resolved to go back to catskinning at the first opportunity. Bill listened in his gruff, skeptical way and then when I was done said, “I’ll take a hundred copies.”
Howard White, Harbour Publishing
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