Narrative nonfiction and Great Lakes history

I Was Never What They Drew

A shifting shore remembers what charts, wreck lists, and local legend could never hold still.

A Long Point Narrative

I Was Never What They Drew is narrative nonfiction told through a fictionalized first-person narrator: Long Point itself. The book follows the Lake Erie sandbar from its geological making through Indigenous knowledge, bird migration, ships, fog, maps, wrecks, lighthouses, conservation, local memory, and the 1991 Captain K collision.

Author
Adler Tweed
Publisher
House Hippo Press
Release
May 19, 2026 KDP Select eBook
Print release
July 21, 2026
Page count
359 pages
eBook ISBN
978-1-997004-32-5
Paperback ISBN
978-1-997004-33-2
Marketplace
Amazon.ca first, available through Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.

Paperback and expanded retailer availability will follow the scheduled print release path. The eBook retail route is intentionally simple during KDP Select.