A Literary Guide to Whistler Hotel Bars

As ode to all the illustrious and industrious writers coming to town for the Whistler Readers & Writers Festival, The Insider presents: A Literary Guide to Whistler Hotel Bars

Chefs Choice: Shelley Adams

Cooks with Books - Tasting the Devine

Whistler is where it all began. I was a caterer and I met a boy, a cute boy in a red ski uniform in Whistler Mountain Ski School. And the rest is history.

Our Brain

The thorniest part of our collaboration is coming up with the seed idea. Lisa likes to say we are two halves of one brain. When we write it’s slow going initially, because it takes time to percolate good ideas. Bad ideas are easy to come by. They’re often cliché. Unfunny. Boring. Or inaccessible.

Joseph Boyden interview – Part 2

I’ve always approached things in my own way…. I’m very much strongly individual and I’ve always approached it from an individualistic way and kind of ignored the rules, in some ways. You’ve got to learn the rules first and then you can break them.

What a tart!

Nicole Fitzgerald and Stella Harvey try a recipe from A Gourmand in Training on this Shaw TV clip: What a tart!

Collaboration Rocks

Feet Banks Credit Dave Barnes

And while that vortex of paranoia and self-doubt known as the creative process can certainly be a lonely place, do I really want to bring someone else in there to assist as I mine my soul for epiphanies?