When people find out that I write cookbooks, they always tell me it must be so much fun. It’s true that cooking is my passion, and I can’t imagine anything I would rather do. But ... Read More »
April 4, 2008
I used to write screenplays. When people would ask what I did, I’d shrug and say I was a screenwriter. The inevitable next question: have I seen any of your movies? I’d shrug again and ... Read More »
Why do we write books? There are many reasons: For love or a broken heart, because of a commitment to a cause, to make a confession or expose an injustice. Some write to tell their ... Read More »
April 4, 2008
I confess I have begun a novel. This is not a true confession, for I am smug about it. For eight years I have gallantly written stories. The only thing more gallant would be to ... Read More »
April 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries
Over the last four years, I have reviewed every major book written by or about aboriginal people in Canada, which makes me a specialist of sort. Quill & Quire’s other specialists don’t explain themselves. Poets ... Read More »
April 4, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
Most writers are familiar with the traditional publishing route, a slow but well-travelled road. The landmarks and mile markers include getting accepted into the UBC creative writing program, having a poem published in The Malahat ... Read More »
April 4, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
“One could never make a novel out of these people, they haven’t got any insides to them, to write about.” (D.H. Lawrence on Australians) I first read D.H. Lawrence’s “Australian” novel, Kangaroo, about a decade ... Read More »
April 4, 2008
One of the oldest feminist presses in Canada, Caitlin Press, has been purchased by Vici Johnstone, the general manager of the B.C.-based Harbour Publishing. Johnstone has been working for Harbour for the past seven years, ... Read More »
April 3, 2008
Banff Book & Art Den, the only indie bookseller in Banff, is up for sale after more than 40 years of single-family ownership. Manager Neil Wedin, the son-in-law of semi-retired owner Barbara Steiner, says the ... Read More »
April 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
Lorraine Filyer, the longtime literature officer at the Ontario Arts Council, will oversee one last round of funding this summer before retiring in October. “It’s a great job, really it is,” says Filyer, who has ... Read More »
April 3, 2008
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