For ten years, Philip Connors has been working as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. April through August, he lives in a cabin, alone with his dog, on a 10,000-foot peak in New Mexico’s historic Gila Wilderness. He spends ten days at a time up there, and then four days off the mountain with his wife. From the lookout tower, he can see more than a hundred miles in every direction.

When Ecco published Connors’s book, Fire Season, they recognized the value of giving prospective readers a glimpse at Phil’s peculiar, solitary job. What kind of guy would choose to live that way? Someone with stories worth three hundred pages of your time? (Yes!) So Ecco asked Sheepscot Creative to introduce the author and the mind-blowing patch of earth where he works.

“Working with Sheepscot Creative means the best of all worlds. You get an imaginative, resourceful partner with a wonderfully creative eye to boot. All of our projects together have exceeded my high expectations.”
— Rachel Eisen Bressler, vice president and associate publisher, Ecco Books

“Dave Weich lugged camera equipment five miles uphill, into the New Mexico wilderness, to film my book trailer. He even brought along a bottle of bourbon. The man is a force of nature and a gentleman of the first rank. I can’t recommend him highly enough.”
— Philip Connors, author of FIRE SEASON