I’m excited to announce that AK Press, North America’s most well-known radical publisher, is distributing Tangled Roots. AK Press is based in Oakland, California, and their distribution will help get it out in the US. It’s still better for me financially if you buy a book directly from this website, but by all means check [...]

Many good things have been happening with Tangled Roots – I have now distributed 480 copies of my 550 print run, which means a second print run will soon be needed.  And three magazines have published positive reviews of the book this month. Check out online reviews in Alternatives Journal and Briar Patch, and look for the print [...]

You can also read it on the Mercury’s website GUELPH — A new book from a leading Guelph community organizer/environmental activist plants seeds of subversion around the conventional ways of thinking about environmentalism, community-building, colonialism and Aboriginal rights. Tangled Roots: Dialogues exploring ecological justice, healing and decolonization is a collection of interviews selected from Matt Soltys’ [...]

Progressive publishing organization Left Eye on Books has nominated Tangled Roots as a Best Crowdsource Book Launch nominee in their upcoming independent publishing awards ceremony. They are still determining all their nominations, but Tangled Roots was selected in advance by one of their editors. If I get selected, I’d get a travel stipend to go [...]

The book is done and back from the printer! It looks beautiful and turned out really well. I’m hosting a book launch party on Sunday July 15, at 7pm. It is to be held at The Square Print Shop & Social Space, downtown Guelph. DJs Noah23 and Fezz (from Cat People) will be playing music, [...]