You’d think it was akin to publishing launch codes by the way this affair has been handled, but a few people really didn’t want you to read this review. In the end, as many suspected, it was not a racist rant that somehow snuck on to the pages of The [...]
That's it. Get it all out of your system, Amber. It hasn't been easy trying to get a copy of the review. I thought of calling in SEAL Team 6 to breach The Fiddlehead HQ and secure their servers, but JSOC said they were busy. I'm still hopeful [...]
Ah, Sue, what the hell is happening over at the Fiddlehead? I don't know where to start. 1. You won't even name the reviewer. Perhaps you don't want to contribute to the notoriety of this particular thought criminal by naming her, but this tactic seems more suitable for minor-league school [...]
I am shocked to be published in 2023. Between 1992 and 2012, I published somewhere between two and four works in literary journals every year with one or two exceptions. After that, a dry spell that wouldn’t end until 2016. Then nothing until now, with my story, “Mach 22,” published [...]
If conversation is the foundation of social interaction, why is it often frustrating and unsatisfying? For the amount of time we spend talking, you’d think we’d all be experts be the age of six. While we try to educate ourselves with the written word, and entertain ourselves with the script, [...]
Here's another in a series of posts highlighting former Media Whore guests with recently published books. Previous interviews with Brent can be found here and here. Maybe it's peevish, but I think Brent owes all the laggards and procrastinators of this world an explanation. While the rest of us have [...]
How do you launch a book into a pandemic? Um, differently? Traci's book came out within a week of mine, so we both know what happens when the world changes between the time your book is accepted by a publisher and the time you publish. But as the Buddhists say, [...]
The past few years have been good to former guests of Media Whore. Maybe I should congratulate myself for great taste in writers? Over the next few months I plan to feature those with recently launched books. First up is Barbara Black, who published her first book of stories with [...]
Here's the serious, professional bio from an interview on Event's website: Vancouver-based Jennifer Zilm received a B.A. and an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of British Columbia and was a doctoral fellow at McMaster University, where her (unfinished) dissertation focused on the liturgical and poetic texts in the [...]
Photo credit: Chiara Falangola Michael Meagher was born and raised in Ottawa, then spent most of his twenties landscaping, roofing, and manual labouring in British Columbia and Nova Scotia. In 2015, he received a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick, where one of his [...]
Photo credit: Danielle Hernandez Tessa Yang’s fiction has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Foglifter, Joyland, and elsewhere. Her debut story collection, The Runaway Restaurant, is forthcoming with 7.13 Books in 2022. She lives in upstate New York where she teaches creative writing and is at work on a [...]
A writer's wife or husband can see their writer struggle, but they might not know how to help. If you're truly interested in the care and feeding of your writer, you should know that it isn't helpful to ask when that "best seller" will finally be done, joking about sudden [...]
