Author Visit: Randy Klassen
NO NEED TO REGISTER HERE - Just drop-in from 11:00am to 2:00pm!
Gather Bookshop is excited to host local author Randy Klassen for a signing of both of his books on November 14th 2026.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Randy Klassen is an author, dedicated ultra runner, and retired entrepreneur living in Squamish, BC. A lifelong storyteller, his first published book Perhaps Joy is the Reward was released in September 2023. His newest title, The Mapmaker's Omission, was released in October 2026.
ABOUT THE BOOKS
THE MAPMAKER'S OMISSION
In The Mapmaker’s Omission I explore of a fur trader’s map to gold and chase its trails to uncover how British Columbia escaped American annexation in the mid-1800s.
A personal encounter with mazelike geography and untold history, this weaving of stories reveals what vanished in cataclysm when today’s Pacific Northwest was charted. It also shows that real gold is mined when we dig down to, and challenge, our foundational beliefs.
If you’ve ever wondered about the genesis of the First Nations unceded land claims in BC or been curious about how a chunk of Canada got wedged between the states of Washington and Alaska, read this book. They are one and the same story.
PERHAPS JOY IS THE REWARD
Perhaps Joy is the Reward is the fast-paced and humorous story of how I accidentally stumbled into a community of ultra runners in my 50s, the journey of self-discovery those trail runners took me on, and why the pain of pushing myself to do harder and harder things, in concert with others on earthen pathways, felt intuitively right.
It’s a story about how the unimaginable can become the ordinary. It’s a story about discovering what we are rather than who we are, and how that can change us forever.
