Dietrich Kalteis’s debut novel Ride the Lightning won the bronze medal in the 2015 Independent Publisher Awards, for Canada West Regional Fiction. Set in Whistler, his second novel, The Deadbeat Club is available from ECW Press October, 2015. Forty-five of his short stories have been widely published, and his screenplay Between Jobs was a finalist in L.A.’s Screenplay Festival. He resides with his family in West Vancouver and is currently working on his next novel.