Red Summer - Re-released by Schaffner Press in April 2010

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Schaffner Press, an independent publisher dedicated to books of quality that address universal themes of social importance, is reprinting a revised edition new edition of BC's much acclaimed memoirs, FOOLS RUSH IN (April) and RED SUMMER (June). The new edition of FOOLS RUSH IN will feature a Prefacee by Charles Bowden and an Epilogue by Bill that recounts his return to Sarajevo to accept an honorary citizenship award from the people of the city.

A vivid, unforgettable account of the danger, pain, and joy of working on a salmon fishing boat and living in a small village on the farthest edge of Alaska.

Set in the tiny Native village of Egegik on the shores of Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Bill Carter’s Red Summer is the thrilling story of one man’s journey from novice to seasoned fisherman over the course of four beautiful, brutal summers in one of the earth’s few remaining wild places. As millions of salmon race toward their annual spawning grounds, Carter learns the ancient, back breaking trade of the set net fisherman, one of the most exhilarating and dangerous jobs in the world.

Fools Rush In Re-released by Schaffner Press in April 2010

"Dante's Inferno for the MTV generation. What a guide Bill Carter turns out to be to the hell of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. Oddly and inspiringly, he finds some heaven there."
- Bono

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Some trips are chosen, others choose you. When tragedy strikes Bill Carter's life he finds himself drawn to a war zone. Sharing his extraordinary journey into a modern heart of darkness, the besieged city of Sarajevo, we meet a man rebuilding the ruins of his former self in the most unlikely of places.

Carterjoins a maverick aid organization, 'The Serious Road Trip,' and dodges snipers and shells to deliver food and supplies to those the UN and the NGOs can't reach. He makes friends with the artistic community of Sarajevo and fights alongside them for survival in a place where food and water are scarce, where you meet death every day, but crucially where life, love and laughter ring out all the same. The sorrow, determination and humour of a select group of people living in the worst of times will lend him the key to his own recovery.

"Fools Rush In is a totally admirable book, the memoir of a young man written out of necessity, the only true reason to write a book. Some of the pages will burn your fingers but the anguish is leavened by the lucidity of the prose. It is a memoir of grand dimension and its consciousness will become part of your life."
- - Jim Harrison, author of Dalva and Legends of the Fall

"No one can keep the wars straight anymore as they hopscotch from continent to continent. The slaughter in Bosnia has slipped beneath the rising tide washing over our minds. But Bill Carter takes us to his killing ground in Sarajevo and for a while we are there, just as we are in the current killing ground and the next one, also. This fine book is the best guide you are going to find to the rest of your life. And, yes love is always the answer."
- Charles Bowden, author of Down by the River

'Bill Carter is more than a digital age Huck Finn. He is not merely writing here, he is singing, as if his life depended upon it. And you get the very real sense that it does. This drama is an honest, wry, immensely humane look at coming of age at the edge of a bomb crater. Carter tells this story with a sense of grandeur.'
-Doug Stanton, author of IN HARM'S WAY

'This book is like Good Morning Vietnam crossed with a Conrad novel.'
- The London Times

"Carter's book reads like a novel, evoking a lost city inhabited by angels, bandits, punks and adrenaline fiends. In the end, Carter reaches far beyond personal experience to find the story of a wounded city, and a war that pitted neighbor against neighbor in a nightmare of mindless hated."
- GINANNE BROWNELL, NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL

"A brutally frank education about the nature of survival."
- Jane Magazine

"Fiercely intelligent . . . It is a deeply felt emotional reaction to the horror and the humanity that Bill Carter would witness, into ordinary life surviving beneath the gun, told with the passion of one who came to identify himself with the tragedy of Bosnia, not as an observer."
- Guardian

"In recounting an extraordinary human story, it simmers with a quiet rage and a remarkable self-awareness."
- Irish Times

"Carter's book deserves a wider audience: his shell-shocked tales of life in the besieged city paint a powerful picture of ordinary people trying to survive in hell."
-Ink

"Carter tells a powerful story . . . The author and his camera will make you examine yourself and realise that, however you were enjoying yourself when this conflict was taking place, you were undoubtedly, to some extent, actually asleep."
- Big Issue

"This is a book with miraculous twists, where the absolute desperation touches the cosmic loneliness of people from Sarajevo during the war. Bill Carter was one of them, he was proud of it but that's not everything: He knows how to tell it in the very best way."
-Dani Magazine

'Bill Carter's graphic memoir opens a whole new window on modern conflict ... His matter-of-fact frontline reportage throws into relief the strength of the human spirit under duress.'
-What's On In London

'Bill Carter is one of those guys who seeks answers to questions most of us are afraid to ask. His heart and eye have always seemed set on describing and revealing the world just as he sees it, and his heart and eye are so clear that it almost breaks your heart.'
- BONO

"In this gripping chronicle of his time in war ravaged Sarajevo, Bill Carter bears witness to both the evil we can do each other and the remarkable resiliency of the human spirit."
- Emmylou Harris

"The ilk of Cronkite is gone from these tubes for good. We are left with someone else's daily idea of what we should see and hear, and it's never good. Never enough information and never enough time to tell the story.  Just bite after bite. In the literal mean time, this man Carter managed to yank the window wide open enough to get a view of what we do to ourselves when we don't know why. And even more pertinent, why we can't stop. The book is a must."
- Howe Gelb

"Bill Carter's book Fools Rush In gives those of us who have suffered great loss, hope and inspiration. A ferocious read."
- Calexico

"This book is such a sock to the stomach. We never planned on meeting the people of the world who write important books, or make movies that effectively change the course of the world, but that's exactly what we did when we met Bill Carter. "Fools Rush In" reminded us that even though some folks can dig themselves deeper than they probably should, they also only do what's mostly necessary and true when they're dug down deepest. If only such dreadful circumstances weren't sometimes required for these traits to shine through."
- Grandaddy