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The Guardians – Second Printing
Just heard from Orion that the mass market paperback edition of The Guardians has gone into its second printing in its first week out in the U.K. Hope this means a few more otherwise good night’s sleeps will be trans-Atlantically … More
Shit We All Say
This is pretty funny. Because it’s true. However, if I were to do a Shit Writers Say, we would come out looking worse… Shit Agents and Editors Say //
Twitter Rudeness
I have been a terrible host. Here I am, posting once-in-a-while blogs and stuff all this time and I haven’t bothered to invite you to Twitter. Yes, I’m there too. And I try my best to offer a daily bit … More
The Guardians in the UK
The mass market edition of The Guardians makes its oh-so-affordable appearance in the U.K. next week (publishing on February 2nd). It’s a novel with a haunted house in it, which explains the, well, haunted-looking house on the cover. To all … More
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait…and Wait…
Twelve years after its initial publication, the French translation of my first novel, Lost Girls (published by L’Archipel), has been given * * * 1/2 stars (out of four) in La Presse. It’s quite unusual for a book to do … More
Genre Blab – The Genre Traveler podcast
Carma Spence runs a very cool blog and site called The Genre Traveler (www.thegenretraveler.com) where, among other things, she posts podcasts with writers who till the fields of genre of all sorts. She looked me up and the result is … More
The Guardians makes The Globe and Mail Best 100 list!
Grey morning. Groggy. Kids climbing over me (“Daddy’s the human chair!”) Open the paper to see…The Guardians made The Globe and Mail Best 100 Books of the Year List. Make coffee. Feel better. Sun rises. More coffee. The Guardians – … More
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First Draft
I submitted a first draft of my new novel to my agents this week. They haven’t read it yet – nobody has, aside from me – so I have spent the last few days floating around, buoyed by a sense … More
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Outlines: The Smackdown
Over at the CBC Books website (an excellent – and sometimes even edifying – time-waster) there’s a debate between my friend and fellow writer Sheila Heti and myself about the matter of outlines. I’m in favour, Sheila against. As both … More
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Is There a Right Book for the Right Season?
The publishing industry is informed, in large part, by long-established truisms. People only buy hardcovers at Christmas. Summer reading means fluff. Nobody buys books in January. Only men like scary stories. Some of these are verifiably true, of course. Others … More