CC Sotel Publishing Ltd

29/03/2022

Volumes 1 & 2 of The Life and Times of the Comox Valley books
soon available through Indigo Books & Music Inc

The land of plenty has evermore to share. The long popular first volume of "The Life and Times of the Comox Valley" covered the valley’s prehistory and history to 1997. Newly published Volume 2 picks up where the first left off. More than two decades’ worth of new images, noteworthy happenings and events appear in this update of life in the valley.

Volume 1 of the title was on the local bestseller list several times, eventually reaching the top spot. Jayne MacAulay's CARP News review advised readers,“Read this book before you move to or visit the area and everyone will take you for a local.” In a Comox Valley Record review local writer Paula Wild wrote the “book is informative and readable.” Volume 2 adds further to knowledge and soon both will be available through Indigo bookstores.

They are found in many Vancouver Island bookstores - Laughing Oyster in Courtenay, The Blue Heron in Comox, Mid Island Gifts at Comox Valley airport and Munro’s Books in Victoria.

The Life and Times of the Comox Valley - Volume 2
240 pg. book highlighting history. Maps, b&w, colour photos, 2021, ISBN 978-1-9994909-2-8

James Allan Krause, Ph.D, writer, researcher, and Associate Faculty member at Yorkville University. In the 200 years since family first gathered on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg people in the Ottawa Valley, they have gone on to provide leadership in areas benefiting Canadians.

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14/09/2021

19/07/2021

Historic Comox Valley

illustration by James Allan Krause, 48 cm X 63.5 (19” X 25”) colour poster. Includes illustrated map, historic points of interest, story line, 1998, ISBN 0-96811968-3-7

19/07/2021

Anna Krause@kabuff_art

19/07/2021

The Life and Times of the Comox Valley - Volume 1

“Read this book before you move to or visit the area and everyone will take you for a local.”
Jayne MacAulay, May 1998, BC or Bust, CARP News

“Book is informative and readable”
The Comox Valley Record

The Life and Times of the Comox Valley, written by James Allan Krause, 116 pg. book highlighting history. Maps, b&w, colour photos - 1997, ISBN 0-9681968-1-0, e-book version, 2003, ISBN 0-9681968-2-9 ISBN 0-9681968-0-2 (paperback)

19/07/2021

Destination Vancouver Island

“Well Organized and very readable”
Gerry Truscott, Royal British Columbia Museum

Written by James Allan Krause, 280 pg. study of V.I.’s history, industry, character. Bibliography, index, 2003, ISBN 0-9681968-4-5 e-book version, 2002, ISBN 0-9681968-5-3

19/07/2021

Wetion Soundtrack

An e-book musical that incorporates a full-length book of 19 chapters, which adds a 10-scene play built into the storyline. The play serves as a standalone story. Also included are 10 original songs with music incorporated into the digital versions.

An audio book version will soon be made available that includes songs and music.

1. Eve Ad’a, Ad’a Eve (3:27)
2. We Are Where We’ve Been (3:09)
3. Oh Belly Dancer (3:01)
4. Imagine-We-R1 (3:42)
5. To-get-her (3:41)
6. It’s Noted in History (3:18)
7. She Don’t Need Me Anymore (4:50)
8. Mary Magdaline (3:30)
9. Bon Ami (3:02)
10. Sanctify Your Dreams (3:33)
11. Big Blue (3:27)
12. Doodles and Grey Dandies (3:21)
13. Looking Back (3:39)
14. Wetion Theme Song (3:47)

Written and produced by James Allan Krause

19/07/2021

“Wetion is easy to read and keeps you engaged from start to finish. The book flows very well between the generations. I would recommend it to anyone who likes historical novels or in genealogy. I am looking forward to reading the next publication from this author.” Daniel Forget

This ebook musical is the first in a trilogy, past, present and future. The story of a family’s migration from Africa. In a story that covers the highpoints of 2,000 years of family history, a subplot considers the history of writing and importance of communication in our collective survival. As readers turn the pages, they will travel through time and gain an understanding of how the interaction shaped the character of the collective.

Written by James Allan Krause, 420 pg. book, 2012, fiction based on fact. 14 original songs, ISBN 978-0-9868292-2-2
e-book version, 2012, ISBN 978-0-9868292-1-5

19/07/2021

The Gardens of Venus Soundtrack

An audio book version will soon be made available that includes songs and music.

01. The Gardens of Venus Theme Song (3:36)
02. Medium (2:55)
03. It’s the Game of Life (3:05)
04. Today’s the Day (4:09)
05. The Picture in My Mind (4:09)
06. Can We? (3:46)
07. We’re Still Inclined to Spinning (3:25)
08. It Doesn’t Matter Where We Are (2:47)
09. Never in My Wildest Dreams (4:29)
10. As Every Story Ends, Another Does Begin

Written and produced by James Allan Krause, cover art by Anna Krause@kabuff_art

19/07/2021

The Pilot and the Parrot Soundtrack

The second in a series of three e-book musicals, included are 10 original songs with music incorporated into the digital versions.

An audio book version will soon be made available that includes songs and music.

01. Another Year's Over (2.52)
02. Epiphanies (4.16)
03. A Valentine's Rhapsody (3.12)
04. Never Doing as I'm Told (2.30)
05. The World was Once a Simpler Place (3.25)
06. In Control Again (3.30)
07. To Be (3.25)
08. The Eve 'Fore Christmas Day (3.08)
09. When the Lights Go Out (2.47)
10. Say Words We Choose (3.21)

Written and produced by James Allan Krause

19/07/2021

The Pilot and the Parrot

The Pilot and the Parrot is a story about the power of the message, and messenger, to impact on the emotions of recipients. In this fiction-based-on-fact account, the settings shift from a traditional home overseas to the sleepy confines of the old coal mining town of Cumberland on Vancouver Island, into the competitive bustle of the lower mainland, then back to the cultural nexus of modern Europe. In each locale, the siblings face dramatic challenges. Their reactions to each are as unique as their individual character traits. In the year and some it all unfolds, their family life is marked by crime, scandals, romance, and a death-defying drama, will the Foerster family survive? This scribe's endings are never predictable...

Written by James Allan Krause, 360 pg. e-book musical, 2016, fiction, includes 10 scene play, 10 original songs, epub, print versions ISBN 978-0-9868292-5-3 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-9868292-4-6 (paperback). ISBN 978-0-9868292-6-0 (ebook)

19/07/2021

The Gardens of Venus

Set in the future, this is a story about how a change in our environment contributes to genetic adaptations to further survival – not always in a way everyone can accept.

Written by James Allan Krause, 380 pg. ebook musical, 2021, science fiction, includes 10 scene play, 10 original songs, ISBN 978-0-9868292-9-1 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-9868292-7-7 (paperback). ISBN 978-0-9868292-8-4 (ebook)

Cover art by Anna Krause@kabuff_art

19/07/2021

The Life and Times of the Comox Valley - Volume 2

Written by James Allan Krause, Photography by Gerry Fairbrother, 240 pg. book highlighting history. Maps, b&w, colour photos, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-9994909-0-4, e-book version ISBN 978-1-9994909-2-8, hardcover version 978-1-9994909-1-1