Happy Leopard Chapbooks. Photo courtesy of Happy Leopard Chapbooks.
Writer Miriam Korner is using her latest project to raise funds to help dogs in the north.
A book launch event on November 8 will promote the author’s newest publication, The Sled Dog Diaries.
Korner originally wrote the cartoons in the book when she first moved to La Ronge 15 years ago, but she never knew that they would be published. The stories by the German author were picked up by Happy Leopard Publishing, a company that makes hand-pressed books and donates all the earnings to different causes.
Sales from The Sled Dog Diaries will be donated to the U of S Western College for Veterinary Medicine’s Remote Northern Clinic Program, which brings medical services for pets to northern Saskatchewan.
“I didn’t really think that these would ever be published, but then there was a small publisher in Saskatoon, it’s called Happy Leopard Chapbooks, and they print hand-bound books. They were interested in my cartoons and asked if they could use them,” said Korner.
“(The Remote Clinic Program) come up I think twice a year up to La Ronge, and they do spay and neuter clinics, and deworming and vaccinations for all the northern animals, since we do not have any vet services in La Ronge.”
Korner is also celebrating the announcement that she will be an artist in residence at the Alex Robertson Public Library in La Ronge starting next year. Programs focusing on how to improve writing skills will be hosted by the author at the library in the new year.