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Whistler Independent Book Awards 2020 Shortlist Announced

Pandemics, lockdowns and novel coronaviruses did not stop self-published authors from around the country submitting their books to the Whistler Independent Book Awards. The evaluating committee assessed all the entries and is pleased to announce the shortlisted nominees for the 2020 WIBAs.     The fiction nominees are: Jennifer Rouse Barbeau for Dying Hour Roy Blomstrom for Silences […]

Book Review: Raven Lane by Amber Cowie

Book Review by Libby McKeever Amber Cowie is a new voice on the domestic thriller-fiction stage and her second novel Raven Lane is one that sticks to your skin and makes you second guess your assumptions. Leafy Raven Lane is a secluded cul-de-sac of five similar homes hidden above Fraser City, where resident realtor Kitty […]

A Conversation with Maude Barlow, author of Whose Water Is It, Anyway?

Whistler Writers Festival’s Alli Vail caught up with Maude Barlow to talk about her book Whose Water Is It, Anyway?: Taking Water Protection into Public Hands, and this year’s theme of the festival – Discourse. She’ll be appearing in the Saturday Night Gala, with author Omar El Akkad Oct. 19. Alli: As a writer and […]

Book Review: Akin, by Emma Donoghue

 By Nicola Bentley Emma Donoghue’s newest novel, Akin, transports the reader from the streets of New York, where the drug trade’s worst outcome is death, to the Promenade in Nice, France, where the city is about to celebrate its annual Carnival. Retired professor Noah Selvaggio is preparing to travel to Nice, a place he has […]

Talk is the Stuff of Story: Katherine Koller blog

Can we talk? That’s what I’d say to the friendly-looking young couple who trailed me through Save-on Foods. After I paid for my huge order (at the time I cooked for eight), I pushed my grocery cart, in the winter dark, over the snow-rutted parking lot. One half of the young couple ran from behind […]