From the photo album (2021)
The most surreal proofreading job I’ve ever done.
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When art gets its hooks in you
The other night, at the suggestion of my brother-in-law in Ottawa, perhaps the best recommender of music, books, and movies that I know, I watched the 2018 film The Miseducation of Cameron Post.
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On earthquakes and broken places
As I write this, in August 2021 in British Columbia, wildfires are ravaging the drought-ridden BC interior.
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Where does the title come from?
“The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.”
—Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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How I came to write The Broken Places
What if a major earthquake struck right now? What would it look like and feel like to me, up here on my own?
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Playing with words
Is it hard to write creatively when you’re also an editor? People ask that a lot.
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Margaret Atwood and me
Beyond excited to appear next to Margaret Atwood in the Publishers Marketplace deal announcements, October 9, 2020.
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From the photo album (2015)
Draft 1, done. Many more drafts to go.
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