3 Tips to Finish Your Manuscript

by Sara Leach You’d think things would be easier. I’m working on my sixth book. Actually, if you count all the stories sitting on my hard drive, this is my tenth manuscript. But it feels just as hard as the first one—maybe even harder, because I have higher expectations. Each project I start, whether it’s […]

Great Girlfriend’s Advice

By Joanne Fogolin This time of year marks the preparation for the Whistler Writers Festival, and the much anticipated return of, “Tasting the Divine: Cooks with Books” evening, slated for October 16, 2015. Three authors will be in attendance to sign books and answer questions. I’ve been asked to read, sample recipes, and review Emily […]

Movement is my Mother Tongue

I’m fascinated by transitions. The precise moment between the release of the last tenuous grasp of the familiar, and the new becoming fully formed charms me. That point is almost impossible to identify and like many, I used to rush to escape the discomfort in its uncertainty.

Fledgling to Flight

“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.” – Victor Hugo I have a new novel coming out this year. I say these words quietly because it seems so self-indulgent to say it any other way. In […]

Reading Event 12: Grant Lawrence in conversation

Fairmont Chateau Whistler October 18, 2015 | 11:00 am – 1:00 pm $35 Includes brunch Description: Grant Lawrence in conversation with Marina Endicott, Camilla Gibb, Catherine Hunter, Amanda Lindhout, Nino Ricci, Steve Toltz. (**Update: Amanda Lindhout is unable to attend this event.) Whet your appetite and your curiosity with the CBC’s Grant Lawrence, in conversation with Marina […]