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  • Book banner for an Open Book interview with author Brit Griffin about her novel The Haunting of Modesto O’Brien. The design features the book cover at the center-left, showing two overlapping cowboy silhouettes in warm golden tones with a cowboy on horseback inside a red flame shape. The right side has bold text reading “Interview with Brit Griffin” and the Open Book logo below, set against a brown and dark green textured background.
    Book banner for an Open Book interview with author Brit Griffin about her novel The Haunting of Modesto O’Brien. The design features the book cover at the center-left, showing two overlapping cowboy silhouettes in warm golden tones with a cowboy on horseback inside a red flame shape. The right side has bold text reading “Interview with Brit Griffin” and the Open Book logo below, set against a brown and dark green textured background.
    October 21, 2025

    Brit Griffin's Latest Novel is a Haunting Gothic Mystery in the Northern Ontario Wilderness

    In The Haunting of Modesto O’Brien, author Brit Griffin transports readers deep into the northern wilderness with a gothic mystery that thrums with danger, magic, and raw emotion. Set in 1907, the novel ...

  • Interview with Tonia Laird, author of Seventhblade banner. Background image of colourful, wispy patterns against black. Solid dark blue section to centre left with text and Open Book logo overlaid. Image of full book cover in tan border to centre right of banner featuring young female warrior with long flowing hair and standing in a suit of armour, holding a cutlass in right hand. Title and author name at top and bottom of cover.
    Interview with Tonia Laird, author of Seventhblade banner. Background image of colourful, wispy patterns against black. Solid dark blue section to centre left with text and Open Book logo overlaid. Image of full book cover in tan border to centre right of banner featuring young female warrior with long flowing hair and standing in a suit of armour, holding a cutlass in right hand. Title and author name at top and bottom of cover.
    June 24, 2025

    Fantasy-Adventure Readers Will Be Enthralled by Tonia Laird's New Novel, Seventhblade

    Our featured author today, Tonia Laird, has had a fascinating and unique journey in storytelling, with multiple publications in magazines and journals and a career in the video game industry as a lorekeeper, ...

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