First-time publisher Helena Braun says it took only four months to sellout 3,000 copies of The Homemade Brass Plate (Cedar-Cott 45940 Collins Dr. Sardis V2R 2E2), the story of pioneer Dr. Mary Percy Jackson in northern Alberta, as told to Cornelia Lehn. The book on "the living legend of Keg River" was featured on Morningside in May and was largely marketed by direct mail. "Dr. Jackson was such a valiant woman and she has done so much for so many people," says Braun, '1 just felt somebody had to do this book."

[Summer/BCBW 1989]