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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.
September 29, 2021

On earthquakes and broken places
As I write this, in August 2021 in British Columbia, wildfires are ravaging the drought-ridden BC interior.
August 19, 2021

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
July 2, 2021

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?
June 22, 2021

Playing with words
Is it hard to write creatively when you’re also an editor? People ask that a lot.
May 21, 2021

Margaret Atwood and me
Beyond excited to appear next to Margaret Atwood in the Publishers Marketplace deal announcements, October 9, 2020.
May 3, 2021