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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 that even braver individuals will step up. Along the way, I was attacked by new friends Mike Blouin, Zilla Jones, and Carolyn Parsons on Canada Writes, who invited me to leave, called me unknown, unimportant, and self-important, compared me to [...]
Greed grief envy love family
Deathbed? Not this time. My work is often described as spare and underwritten. Sometimes I'm tempted to add lush descriptive [...]
Ditch digger, berry picker
"Having so much fun, all through the skin-frying day and into the mosquito-ridden night." I don't know where "Breaking on [...]
Rockford
Behold the cranky, wisecracking elegance of James Garner, star of The Rockford Files. Back in the days of The Love [...]
Launch day for No Call Too Small
Today is the official launch date for No Call Too Small, my collection of short stories. I wouldn't be much [...]
Publishers Weekly review
Kind words and another comparison to George Saunders. Am I blushing? https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-77168-195-7
Tom Howard’s self-promotion tip: befriend Obama
Tom Howard is a fiction writer based in Arlington, Virginia. He’s the author of Fierce Pretty Things (Indiana University Press, [...]
Tickles the Clown
for Walter Rae Tickles finger-combed the kid’s sheep-dog hair and gathered it in his fist, pulling at the roots. Semi-engaged [...]
One tweet from the right person
On June 9, 2019, I flew to New York for the launch of Greg Giraldo: A Comedian's Story. From the [...]
Suzanna Derewicz is exactly where she wants to be
Suzanna Derewicz is a writer and psychotherapy student based in Toronto, ON. She has recently been published in CV2, PRISM [...]
Jill M. Talbot is “so real that real is scared”
Vancouver: Item not as pictured Jill M. Talbot was born and currently resides in Vancouver, BC. She attended [...]
Tyler Dunning at gunpoint
Photo credit: DJ Viernes Tyler Dunning grew up in southwestern Montana, having developed a feral curiosity and reflective [...]
Andrew Rai Berzins refuses to pick favourite child
Andrew Rai Berzins’ writing includes Cerberus (short fiction), as well as the screenplays for the CBC movies – Scorn, Chasing Cain (1 [...]