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Northern Jaeger NOW available in e-book and paperback editions!

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About the Book

Get ready to question what’s on your dinner plate as Charles Vaught, a broke, nerdy, loveless hippie wannabe-turned-fisherman, spills the guts—literally—of the seafood industry on commercial fishing ship, the Northern Jaeger.

Join him as he ventures wildly out of his depth, leaving his comfortable life in rural Washington and climbing aboard his ‘Mistress of the Sea’ with 100 tough and hardened career fishermen, in search of fortune and glory on the Bering Sea.

From back-breaking labor and gleeful fish slaughter, to getting caught with his pants down, weathering violent storms, and learning the ropes of his new role as a viscera technician, Vaught’s memoir is a hilarious and eye-opening journey through the commercial fishing industry in the year 2000.

Discover the shocking secret of surimi, survive a fully functioning sea factory, and discover why you should probably think twice about that seafood dinner.

So much more than a memoir; Vaught’s wit makes Northern Jaeger a gut-busting adventure that’ll leave you hooked!

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State of Fire NOW available in e-book, print, and audiobook editions!

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State of Fire – Audio Sample

The Chainsaw – Audio Sample

The ABCs of Fire Season – Audio Sample

About the Book

State of Fire gives a raw, unexpected, all-too-truthful, and oftentimes humorous view of one man’s journey into the world of wildland firefighting. Based on the author’s experiences as a crewmember on the Highlands 20, once described as an “elite 20-man handcrew.” This book pulls back the curtain on the mysteries of those who go toe-to-toe in battles with Nature, exposing various overlooked aspects of what it means and takes to fight wildfire. From the raw physicality of the job, to the job’s transformational qualities, to the extreme camaraderie earned along the way; State of fire explores the toll that wildland firefighters pay physically, mentally, socially and of course, the toll it takes on their love lives. Within these pages wildland firefighters are not “hero-ized” role models sanitized of any shred of truth, but portrayed with all of their flaws, egos, weaknesses, and baggage, giving the reader a better understanding of not only the of the people who go into the wild lands of America and fight fire, but the realities of the job itself. State of Fire is about finding commonality by going through hardship with strangers, who soon become closer than family. It’s about what happens when you separate men from society and normalcy for months at a time. It’s about finding purpose in the most unexpected of places, and coming to terms with one’s limitations. It’s about pranks and laughter and ball-breaking and love and loss, all while testing one’s mental, emotional, and physical strength through wildfire! State of Fire represents – my path to, of, and away from wildland firefighting.

To honor all wildland firefighters 10% of all book sales are being donated the Wildland Firefighter Foundation (wffoundation.org), an excellent non-profit out of Boise, Idaho, who help wildland firefighters who have been injured on the job, or the families of those who have lost wildland firefighters in the line of duty.

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