If you’re in Westfort on Aug.22, I’ll be reading a passage from Lucifer every half hour from 12-5pm at CommuniTea and Coffee. Hope to see you there! (I’d recommend trying to get there around 3:30pm if you can; the passage I plan to be reading then is quite the doozy.)
by Heather O’Neill A short story collection is an interesting outlet for an author to experiment with her craft. Given that the sequestered narratives have so little time to show and tell, it gives an author ample leeway to branch out to different styles and dramas. Even if a tale sort of falls flat––and, many…
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I was recently interviewed by the Thunder Bay Public Library; check it out here, if you want to learn more about Lucifer, as well as my experiences with publishing, promotions, readings, and leading writing workshops. In case you missed the last one with Book Goodies, you can find it here; this one had a bigger…
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If you’re in Two Harbors on August 17th, I’ll be reading from Lucifer at the public library! If you can’t make that, and happen to be in Thunder Bay, don’t worry; I’ll be doing more readings during the Westfort Street Fair, on August 22nd, at CommuniTea and Coffee!
by Steven Brust If, when reading, I catch a lot of errors in editing, it really takes me out of the story. I can get back to it, but it completely ruins my concentration when I see that someone happens to be eating “Eastern-style desert (sic) pancakes”––you know, the ones you eat after dinner––or talking…
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by Steven Brust Sometimes a sequel comes across favourably when compared to the original. Yendi is most definitely a case of this, improving on what made Jhereg good, while learning from––and fixing many of––the problems of the original, while trying some new things in the process. I’m going to be comparing the two quite a…
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by Jane Urquhart It feels like quite some time since a book came along and both delighted me and terrified me through its superb writing, making me glad that high art still exists in contemporary Canadian literature, though worried that I’m nowhere near creating anything comparable in quality. It should go without saying, then––but I’ll…
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by Steven Brust When reading, I sometimes get caught up with the wrong pronunciation, and I have a far too hard time letting go, even when someone corrects me. I’m thankful that Brust was kind enough to provide a pronunciation guide at the start of Jhereg; this way I hopefully won’t embarrass myself when discussing…
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by Alain Farah Some books really lose me right from the get-go. This could be due to a myriad of reasons, but, in the case of Ravenscrag, it seemed to be because of the author’s misunderstanding of avant-garde, with scenes mashed together that appeared weird just for the sake of being weird. Before long, however,…
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If you were looking for another way to pick up your very own copy of that book I wrote, Thunder Games and Gifts added it to their website, in both the print copy and eBook! And, of course, check out here if you want to find out more about it, and don’t forget about the…
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