The Blue Light Project book trailer is out. Click here to watch. Thanks Scott Sellers and Dean Bernard, also DP Douglas Nelson and Editor Scott Douglas for making this happen.
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US Cover Finalized
This cover was commissioned by Soft Skull and I think it turned out great. It’s based on JermIX’s street art installation Cascading Confession, which Jerm has described to me as the hardest thing he’s ever done. You can understand why. It’s a poem about a painful set of young adult experiences, laid over the pages of […]
Soft Skull Galleys Arrive
Good mail day from the US today. Soft Skull galleys arrive, with a cover based on work by Jerm IX, the once prolific Vancouver street artist who is now a prolific Toronto street artist. Oddly, the big box of books came on the same day as a smaller box. In it, a sampler of smoked […]
Timothy Taylor to open the Bowen Island Writers Festival
I used to go for church picnics on Bowen Island when I was a kid growing up in Whytecliff / Horseshoe Bay. Great to be going back. From the Write on Bowen Blog Award-winning and bestselling writer Timothy Taylor is the first author out of the starting gate for the next annual Write on Bowen festival. Taylor, author of Stanley […]
Naturally Hazardous
Feminine beauty is, by virtue of having no definition, controversial. Hold up an image you find exemplary and expect to get everything from murmurs of approval to charges of sexism from virtually any random sampling of people. Beauty, it seems, will always be more of a question than it is an answer. The photographers in […]
Watching the Waterfront
1. It’s my central Vancouver image, which surprises people on occasion. If they’ve read my fiction, people tend to expect Stanley Park to occupy the definitive place in my imagination’s geography. But this is not so. I think of Vancouver – and I think of it often, especially when travelling – and I think of […]
Scott Sellers on The Blue Light Project
Scott Sellers is the VP Marketing Strategy for Random House of Canada. He spoke recently to Michelle MacAleese of Knopf Canada about The Blue Light Project. Please click HERE to see the video.
Food/Crime Fiction
Food is married to crime through the poisoner. Cardinal Ferdinando de Medici reportedly poisoned his brother with a peach he’d just sliced in two, the other half of which the Cardinal had just eaten himself to no ill effect. (Think about it: two sides to every blade.) But food is married to crime fiction for […]
Cinema Salon September 7th – Vancouver
Timothy Taylor presents THE THIN RED LINE Tuesday, September 7 at 7:30 pm Director: TERRENCE MALICKCast: Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, Woody Harrelson, Sean PennUSA, 1998, 170 minutes// BUY TICKETS Once a month, Melanie Friesen invites a distinguished guest to present his/her favourite film. After the screening, audiences and guests have the opportunity to discuss the […]
Marathon Reading of George Bowering’s Burning Water
PRESS RELEASE 12 Hour Marathon Reading of Burning Water The W.A. Deacon Literary Foundation is pleased to announce a marathon reading of George Bowering’s award winning novel Burning Water (1980), a novel of George Vancouver’s exploration of the coast of British Columbia. The venue is a pilot program of the City of Vancouver. Everyone is […]