Gordon Mohs, an anthropologist and First Nations legal affairs expert, is now working on a two-book deal with Penguin. He'll revise and reprint his first novel, Devil's Run, plus provide another thriller featuring tribal police inspector Eddie Julian in the Fraser Valley. Mohs and his wife took a leap of faith in January when they self-published an $89 collector's edition of Mohs' first novel. After a literary agent in Victoria, Kathryn Mulders, heard Mohs interviewed on CBC's David Grierson, she contacted him and started the ball rolling with Penguin, the company that also publishes the Arthurian novels of B.C. author Jack Whyte. "It was always my dream to be published by Penguin,"; says Gordon Mohs of Mission City, "and now that dream looks like it'll happen.";

[BCBW WINTER 2000]