Janie Brown blog: My pandemic book birthday
Note to Self: Don’t launch a book amidst a global pandemic by Janie Brown March 5, 2020 was UK Publication Day (Canongate). We drank champagne and ate cake that my sister Kate had designed for the occasion. The chocolate sponge book was decorated with the bird images from my cover and the words Radical Acts […]
Book Review: The Difference
The Difference by Marina Endicott Review by Farha Guerrero One of the many pleasures of reading is that it allows us to journey to unknown places; and nothing could hold truer than the present moment where we face the uncertainties of global travel amidst a despairing pandemic. Reading is discovering, or as Honoré Balzac put […]
Jenn Ashton on Connection
I have known I was a writer since I was six or seven years old. It has been my other language. If I seemed like a shy nose-in-a-book kid, I was, until you read my writing; and then I was a big, loudmouth, fast-talking, vibrant and vibrating, opinionated little being. One side of my life […]
Book Review: The Glass Hotel
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel Review by Nicole Fitzgerald Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, The Glass Hotel, reads like a reflection on a window. The image changes as different characters step behind the glass. Only fragments of the bigger picture are reflected on their faces, leaving the reader to piece together […]
Book Review: Five Little Indians
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good Review by Dee Raffo Five Little Indians follows the lives of five young adults as they grapple with life after ‘Indian School’ in the 1960s. From their prison-like residential school on Vancouver Island, they are turfed onto the streets of Vancouver with no support, money, family connections or life […]
WROBEL, STEPHANIE
STEPHANIE WROBEL is the bestselling author of Darling Rose Gold. She has an MFA from Emerson College and has had short fiction published in the Bellevue Literary Review. Before turning to fiction, she worked as a creative copywriter at various advertising agencies. Stephanie grew up in Chicago, Illinois, but now lives in the UK with her husband […]
WOOD BARRETT, REBECCA
REBECCA WOOD BARRETT is an award-winning writer and filmmaker living in Whistler, British Columbia. Her short fiction has been published in Room, The Antigonish Review and Pique Newsmagazine. She has made over 35 short films, which have broadcast on TV and been screened at festivals around the world. Her films have won the People’s Choice […]
WATT, K. JANE
K. JANE WATT is the founder of Fenton Street Publishing House. She was awarded her PhD in English from the University of Alberta in 1997 and since then has become an award-winning writer, editor and book producer. She believes in the everyday genius in all of us, and in the capacity of writers — even […]
VOGLER, STEPHEN
STEPHEN VOGLER, long time Whistlerite and west coaster, is an author, playwright and musician. He has published three books including Only in Whistler: Tales of a Mountain Town (Harbour Publishing, 2009), and has written and presented for CBC Radio’s Ideas and other network programs. Stephen plays and writes songs with his band, West Coast Front, […]
TRAFFORD, TANYA
TANYA TRAFFORD’s editing experience ranges from cookbooks to memoir to children’s literature. She was the editor of the recent Governor General’s Award-winning novel The King of Jam Sandwiches, by Eric Walters, and over the years has had the privilege of working with many other Canadian writers, including Marty Chan, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Melanie Florence, Joanne Levy, […]