The Tarsands Calgary, Alberta
The Tarsands are a band made up of two authors (and sometimes one editor) from NeWest Press in Canada. They
are:
Niall Howell: Only Pretty Damned (2019)
Randy Nikkel Schroeder: Arctic Smoke (2019)
Kit Dobson: Editor
Arctic Smoke is an original soundtrack to the novel Arctic Smoke.
CAUTIONS—do not listen or read if you have a known tendency to hallucinate. Do not mix with other novels/songs.
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