Category Archives: Writing
Does your short story collection need an e-publisher?
If you’ve got $10, an email address, and 130-250 pages of solid short fiction, you can enter Joyland.ca’s Short Story Collection Search: This fall Joyland and ECW Press are launching the Joyland eBook imprint to spotlight the best in short fiction across North America. Our first two collections are from New York’s Jim Hanas and [...]
I hereby forfeit the Canadian Book Challenge…
which hereby makes me a failure/outcast/total dink/etc. It’s okay. I’ve made my peace with it. However, I feel compelled to mention that I actually have read the 13 Canadian books—I blogged the first 11, and have since read two more. I finished #12, Katherine Govier’s The Ghost Brush, last week and, though she may have [...]
It’s true, we’re smokin’ hot.
The Globe and Mail published an article last week, titled “The truth about publishing: It’s full of hotties.” I have to agree, and immediately sent a message to Rosalynn saying that I would blog about it when I was in the office today (my–hot–body is only in the office 2 days/week, although I often find [...]
A dialogue with history
Apparently Yann Martel’s latest book hasn’t been well received. A lot of the criticism, it seems, is centered not just upon the quality of the work itself, but rather on the fact that he is a non-Jew who had the audacity to write about the Holocaust. The Guardian has an interesting interview with him about [...]
TNQ Field-trip day!
Ever wonder about what it takes for a self-published author to get picked up by McLelland & Stewart? Why not ask Terry Fallis, author of Waterloo’s 2010 One Book One Community selection, The Best Laid Plans? He’ll be joining us on our “One Book, One Best Laid Plan” book tour on June 19. Each year, [...]
let’s help our neighbours…
to discover the best of Canadian writing. We got an interesting note in the TNQ (e)mail bag this week, from an American grad student with a hunger for Canlit. He’s been reading our litmags, but is looking for more: I’m looking for recommedations for Canadian novels and memoirs, even story collections. Since literature is your [...]
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