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Blogging the Blogs

It’s getting so bloggy over here…I can barely see.  Get it!  “Bloggy” rhymes with “foggy”!  Okay.  It’s jet lag.  Forget it.

I’m back from a fun trip to Calgary and Vancouver for The Guardians and now I’m astride the desk once more, working through the almost weirdly accumulated tasks that existed as only distant vapours a week ago.  The good news is that pretty much everything I’m working on these days is stuff that I want to be working on (not always the case…right freelancers?)  Among this stuff is guest blogging for the National Post’s on-line book section, The Afterword.  I’m there all week.  Don’t forget to tip your waitress!

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The Guardians a review virgin no more

I’m not going to write a post every time a review for the new novel comes out, I promise.  But I was just sent the first major newspaper review for The Guardians at the National Post.  I’m relieved to say it’s a really great review.  Doubly gratifying because it’s so well-written and (even more rare in reviews) so well structured.  So the first question of my day is:  How early can I open something bubbly and boozy (even if it’s a bottle of Keith’s)?

Check it out here:  http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/01/07/book-review-the-guardians-by-andrew-pyper/

But what I really want to say is that today is the day that my novel is officially no longer mine.  It’s yours.  The wide and anonymous world’s.  For years the story of my fictional childhood friends and the not-so-empty Thurman house has nested in my head, been batted around in outline and on the page.  It’s been a private matter, in other words.  And now I wake up to find that it’s left the house in the night, leaving no note behind, and without a goodbye.

I’m happy, don’t get me wrong.  And I knew this day would come.  But you’d think, after five novels, you’d get used to it when the little punk grows up.  As far as I can tell, you never do.