2010 July | Book Club Buddy

Book Flashes for Authors

BOOKflashes are videos that offer readers glimpses of your book’s primary premise and relevant highlights, or your novel’s main characters and brief plot basics over a background audio. From one to two minutes duration, BOOKflashes give prospective readers a sense of your book, both visually and audibly. Go to http://www.bookflashes.com for more information.

Borderlands by Derek Lundy

Borderlands, by Derek Lundy shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize! “The periphery of a place can tell us a great deal about its heartland. along the edge of a nation’s territory, its real prejudices, fears and obsessions – but also its virtues – irrepressibly bubble up as its people confront the ‘other’ whom they [...]

Burning Ground by Pearl Luke

Burning Ground is the winner of the 2001 Commonwealth Prize for best first novel, Canada/Caribbean region. It was short-listed for the Georges Bugnet award, and the Canadian Booksellers’ Libris award, and was a Globe & Mail notable book of the year. In 1999, before the novel was published, it was one of five finalists for the [...]

Caroline Adderson on Sitting Practice

Sitting Practice is the story of a marriage tested by an accident. Ross Alexander, a caterer for film and television, meets Iliana, a nurse, when he has day surgery on his nose. They date, marry, then, three-and-a-half weeks after the wedding, have a tragic car accident due entirely to Ross’ carelessness. Iliana ends up with [...]

Consumption by Kevin Patterson

In Rankin Inlet, a small town bordering the Arctic Ocean, the lives of the Inuit are gradually changing. The caribou and seals are no longer plentiful, and Western commerce has come to the community through a proposed diamond mine. Victoria Robertson wakes to a violent storm, her three children stirring in the dark. Her father, Emo, [...]

Every Lost Country by Steven Heighton

Lewis Book, a doctor with a history of embroiling himself in conflicts, and his daughter, Sophie, travel to Nepal to join a climbing expedition. One evening, as Sophie sits on the border between China and Nepal, watching the sun set over the Himalayas, she spots a group of Tibetan refugees fleeing from Chinese soldiers. When [...]

Fred Stenson on The Great Karoo

Can you tell us how you became a writer? Fred Stenson: As soon as I discovered adult writing (at fourteen), I wanted to be a writer. I guess it was Catcher in the Rye that turned the switch. So I began writing then, and wanting very badly to be a writer for my profession. This [...]

Guide to Madame Zee by Pearl Luke

It starts with a strange tightness in her chest, followed by a vision. A boy she doesn’t recognize. A man falling through ice. And finally the serene face of Honora, her dead sister. Mabel doesn’t know why she has these “daydreams.” As a young English girl at the dawn of the 20th century, all Mabel [...]

Guide to Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson

It only takes a moment for your life to be changed forever—as the characters of this darkly comic novel discover early on. The fateful moment for the newlyweds Ross and Iliana comes with the freak automobile accident that leaves Iliana paralyzed, Ross grief-stricken, and both of them struggling to come to terms with a married [...]