Collaboration Nation
So, if you want to be a real writer, don’t procrastinate or collaborate. Go alone into the bush with your chainsaw already running.
Journey Without Maps
Come fly with me. From Victoria to Halifax. I’m hungry for adventure. And to come a little untethered. The way poetry can do.
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Writers
…whether it’s you, a loved one, or the ultimate heartbreak of a child who wants to be a writer, here are a few good reasons to consider an alternate lifestyle.
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
Collaboration, it just makes sense
Whistler, it’s a place where you can make anything happen.
What Makes Olga Run – Book Review
What Makes Olga Run? The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star, and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives.
Press Release – Authors in Schools Program
The Whistler Readers and Writers Festival, with the Whistler Arts Council, launches the Authors in Schools Program involving schools from Squamish to Mt. Currie.
Chefs Choice: Shelley Adams
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.