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An intimate, uplifting story of a courageous marine biologist's journey from the instant her healthy husband suffers a stroke, through Beth's trials and tender moments as his medical advocate and conflicts during his recovery when her instinct to protect him from risk collides with his need for wilderness sailing expeditions with his family in Alaska's magnificent yet unforgiving waters.
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Beth Ann Mathews grew up the Midwest and earned her master’s degree in marine biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. As an associate professor at the University of Alaska Southeast, she taught courses in biology, behavioral ecology, and marine mammalogy and led research on harbor seals, Steller sea lions, and harbor porpoises. She has also studied humpback, gray, and sperm whales and led undergraduate research programs on board tall ships in the Gulf of Maine and from field camps in Hawaii and Alaska. Mathews has published numerous scientific papers (Elizabeth A. Mathews), and her memoir
Deep Waters was a finalist for the Nancy Pearl, Best Book Award for Memoir, and a three-time finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards (Grand Prize, Memoir, and Debut Author). She lives on an island with her husband in Puget Sound, WA.
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An intimate, uplifting story of a courageous marine biologist’s journey from the instant her healthy husband suffers a stroke, through Beth’s trials and tender moments as his medical advocate and conflicts during his recovery when her instinct to protect him from risk collides with his need for wilderness sailing expeditions with his family in Alaska’s magnificent yet unforgiving waters.
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Publicist Hired: Caitlin Hamilton Marketing & Publicity, LLC
Knoxville, TN
caitlin@caitlinhamiltonmarketing.com
(865) 675-3776
Publicity Highlights:
• Media in Alaska, Sonoma County, CA (e.g., Santa Rosa Press-Democrat), Indiana, and local media in the Seattle area (e.g. Seattle Times, The Columbian, and Kitsap Sun)
• Media about boats and sailing.
• Radio and podcasts (KRCB, Authors on the Air, regional NPR, etc.)
• Selected women’s media and websites, such as Good Housekeeping
• Selected Midwestern media such as the Minneapolis Star-Tribune
• Alumni media (Purdue, UC-Santa Cruz) as well as University of Alaska media
• Book bloggers and bookstagrammers
• Content marketing: trying to place essays, guest blogs, and/or excerpts.
• Events in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, California, and the Midwest. Events could be in bookstores or at festivals, universities, yacht clubs, with associations, women’s groups, libraries, reading series, book clubs, Redwood Writers, etc.
