Author, editor, and professional speaker Matt Jackson sees the funny side of life.
His first book, The Canada Chronicles: A Four-year Hitchhiking Odyssey, is a Canadian bestseller and won the IPPY award for best North American travel memoir in 2004.
He has also edited eight anthologies of short stories, including Canadian bestsellers Mugged by a Moose, A Beaver is Eating My Canoe, and Never Trust a Smiling Bear.
Jackson is coming to Salmon Arm to introduce two new anthologies he has edited, focusing on, as always, topics related to travel and the outdoors.
Never Light a Match in an Outhouse readers will find a collection of hilarious stories about the lighter side of the cottage experience.
Find out what Greg Simison has been firing at the unsuspecting canoeists and Sea-dooers of the Rideau Lakes chain; join Bruce Day as he faces off against an army of porcupines in a bizarre battle of wits to save his cabin; and discover what peculiar creature Jeff Groberman hooked at the end of his fishing line.
Ponder Don Wilkinson’s “Weapon of Mashed Destruction” that he builds and then subsequently turns loose in Ontario’s cottage country – and more.
Mob Hit on My Grandmother’s Dog, features droll dogs, funny felines and many other amusing animals.
What does a golden lab that steals laundry off a neighbour’s clothesline have in common with a mynah bird that can imitate a flushing toilet? Or what does a “pet” wasp with a taste for shrimp have in common with an old boxer that has a taste for caviar?
This unforgettable collection of the most hilarious and outrageous animal stories also tells about an unexpected rendezvous between writer Steve Pitt, a lobster and the Queen of England.
Meet Jackson at Bookingham Palace from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, when he will be signing copies of his books.
