Ontario book news, interviews and more
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June 19, 2017Need a Trick for Writing Film Scripts?
I’ve been trying a new way to rewrite a feature film script. A bit of a trick. Steal it if you think it might be useful.A few years ago, I wrote the script on spec, basing it on a story I’d heard ...
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June 19, 2017Contest! Love the Planet with Environmental Books from Wilfrid Laurier University Press
If you are interested in (or alarmed by) the issues facing our natural world, Wilfrid Laurier University Press has some great books to add to your summer reading list. We're excited to announce that ...
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June 16, 2017Writers Working With Actors
Prep for the audio book: it was fun for me to Skype about my characters’ accents with narrator Pascal Langdale before the recording sessions for my new novel. Few people are interested in such arcane ...
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June 16, 2017The Lucky Seven, with Carole Giangrande
Valerie and her husband Gerard are opposites in many ways. He's a passionate broadcaster, whose lifelong pursuit of justice was awakened by the bombing death of his first lover, while Valerie is quiet ...
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June 15, 2017The Entitled Interview, with Eamon McGrath
In his literary debut, Berlin-Warszawa Express (ECW Press), musician and songwriter Eamon McGrath tackles a question that plagues artists in every medium: does art necessitate suffering? He wonders ...
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June 15, 2017Combatting Oppression With Community
Two months ago, I attended Fuel for Fire, a professional development conference for writers of colour, organized by the Ontario Arts Council. The event provided a venue for discussions about writing and ...
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June 14, 2017Photos! Poets go Glam at the Griffin Prize Gala
There's no bigger bash for poetry (or arguably, for books in Canada) than the Griffin Prize Gala - and no better place to see your favourite poets cut a rug. On June 8, 2017 poets, publishers, book media, ...
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June 14, 2017What Did Charlotte Brontë Sound Like?
Actor Pascal Langdale was our first choice as narrator for the audio book of Mad Richard. His voice is compelling, his accent British by birth and his audition thoroughly professional. It seemed a simple ...
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June 13, 2017Contest! Win a Summer of Great Groundwood Books for Young Readers!
Groundwood Books is one of the most acclaimed publishing houses in the country for their books for young readers (much like their sister publisher, House of Anansi, is for adult books). They publish gorgeous ...
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June 13, 2017The In Character interview, with Connie Guzzo-McParland
Connie Guzzo-McParland's The Women of Saturn (Inanna Publications) continues the story of Cathy (formerly Caterina) from Guzzo-McParland's novel The Girls of Piazza d’Amore. Now living in Montreal, ...
