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COMING SEPTEMBER 2025
“Yes—finally, some good news! Fishermen and environmentalists, often aggressively at cross purposes, are finding common ground to improve the ocean's health and the livelihood of those working at sea. An uplifting read that will leave you hopeful about people, our planet, and the power of working together.”
—CAROLEE HAZARD, Kepler’s Bookstore
Sea Change Galley Giveaway
Be among the first to read Sea Change by James Workman and Amanda Leland—an official Shelf Awareness Galley Love of the Week selection. GLOW selects books that have not yet been discovered by booksellers and librarians, identifying the ones that will be important hand-selling titles in a future season.
SEA CHANGE:
Unlikely Allies and a Success Story of Oceanic Proportions
by JAMES WORKMAN and AMANDA LELAND
Sea Change is the captivating, deeply-human tale of how fishermen—along with some unlikely allies—helped carry out the biggest conservation success story you've never heard of.
Exploring a win for the world's most vital ecosystem, Sea Change tells the story of unlikely partnerships and surprising solutions that are quietly revolutionizing the fishing industry. Like other ocean areas, the Gulf Coast fisheries were being fished out to the detriment of wildlife and the people whose livelihoods and communities hinge on sea catch. Fisherman Keith “Buddy” Guindon had followed every suggested policy and practice to no avail, until he—along with scientists, government agencies, and environmental groups—helped lead real change that is preventing overfishing and securing resource longevity. Sea Change demonstrates that success is possible, that the time is now, and the methods are here to conserve our natural world and the people who depend on it.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
JAMES WORKMAN is author of the award-winning Heart of Dryness, which shared proven strategies of the Kalahari's Bushmen. Inspired by similar decentralized local resilience systems, Jamie founded AquaShares to pioneer water credit trading in today's thirsty cities. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications like New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Rabbit Hole, Orion, Trout, and Washington Monthly. He studied at Yale, Oxford, and Stanford and taught at Wesleyan and Whitman. But his real education came from restoring wildfires, reintroducing wolves, blowing up dams, smuggling to dissidents, getting married and raising two daughters.
AMANDA LELAND fell in love with the sea at five years old, when her grandfather taught her to fish. She has since gone on to get her Master’s Degree in Marine Biology, work as a marine mammal zookeeper, take more than 1,000 scuba dives, and kayak every chance she gets. As Executive Director of Environmental Defense Fund, Amanda brings unlikely allies together to find the ways that work to support healthy communities and economies while reducing climate impacts. She previously led EDF’s Oceans program, a global team in 14 countries focused on reversing overfishing while supporting thriving fishing communities, triggering the dramatic economic and ecological recovery of U.S. fisheries and beyond.
“Leland and Workman make a convincing case that empowering fishermen to work together, even as they compete, can create miracles.”
—BILL MCKIBBEN, The End of Nature
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