Searching For Terry Punchout by Tyler Hellard is being championed during the CBC’s Canada Reads debates by Steve (Dangle) Glynn. Its publisher, Invisible Books, says the difference a pick like this makes at a small press is incredible,
Norm Nehmetallah calls Searching for Terry Punchout a ‘very Atlantic and Maritime book’
Luke Beirne · CBC News
· Posted: Jan 31, 2026 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 27 minutes ago
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Searching for Terry Punchout is a novel by Tyler Hellard, who was born in Halifax and raised in Summerside, P.E.I. He now lives in Calgary. (Invisible Books, Monique St. Croix)
Searching For Terry Punchout by Tyler Hellard will be championed by podcaster Steve (Dangle) Glynn during the CBC’s Canada Reads debates, and for a Fredericton-based publisher, the impact is huge.
Invisible Publishing brought Hellard’s novel out in 2018, and it “had a good first life,” publisher Norman Nehmetallah told Informatioin Morning Fredericton.
After seven years, however, things had died down, and only a few copies were kept in the warehouse.
Then Searching for Terry Punchout was announced this month as one of five books that will get celebrity scrutiny in April during Canada Reads,
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