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  • Contest: Enter to Win A Pulse-Spiking Pack of Literary Mysteries from ECW's Thriller Master John Jantunen
    Contest: Enter to Win A Pulse-Spiking Pack of Literary Mysteries from ECW's Thriller Master John Jantunen
    May 03, 2021

    Contest: Enter to Win A Pulse-Spiking Pack of Literary Mysteries from ECW's Thriller Master John Jantunen

    John Jantunen's unique literary voice brings northern Ontario to the forefront – not only for its beauty, but as a perfect backdrop to some of the most compulsively readable thrillers and mysteries ...

  • Novelist John Jantunen on Opening Scenes, Naming Murderers After Friends, & the Strange Time He Met His Protagonist in Northern Ontario
    Novelist John Jantunen on Opening Scenes, Naming Murderers After Friends, & the Strange Time He Met His Protagonist in Northern Ontario
    April 01, 2021

    Novelist John Jantunen on Opening Scenes, Naming Murderers After Friends, & the Strange Time He Met His Protagonist in Northern Ontario

    In the not too distant future, a prison filled with hardened inmates is suddenly plunged into darkness. The power has mysteriously gone out, and it's not coming back. The guards flee the prison, leaving ...

  • A Desolate Splendor
    A Desolate Splendor
    November 17, 2016

    The In Character interview with John Jantunen

    Guelph-based author John Jantunen's A Desolate Splendor (ECW Press) is an end-of-the-world tale told in multiple voices. Hidden in the wild outskirts of a world forced back into a pre-technology existence, ...

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