About your book: Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny by Caroline Woodward (Oolichan Books: September, 2010) I hope they will find my contemporary retelling of The Odyssey, complete with a gritty ranching and long haul trucking couple facing overwhelming challenges, to be most memorable. It’s always a bit audacious to take on a Big [...]
Confessions of a Tea Leaf Reader, by Tanya Lester, chronicles something most people know little about: the day-to-day life of a tea leaf reader. Tanya Lester has read the tea leaves of thousands of people by looking for pictures in the loose leaf tea after her clients drain the liquid from the cup. Seeing pictures [...]
On First Books and Chicken Feet (reprinted in part from bibliographic.net with permission from the author) by Teri Vlassopoulos, author of Bats or Swallows and Other Stories Part About Books Teri: I’m sure you’ve been asked by many people the big question, WHAT IS YOUR BOOK ABOUT? I find that question hard to answer when it [...]
Doing Business in a New Climate: A Guide to Measuring, Reducing and Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Around the world, a growing number of businesses are taking steps to reduce their climate impact by managing their greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, these businesses are discovering that effective greenhouse gas management can enhance their brands, [...]
In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for industrial, urban and environmental reasons stirring up oceans of controversy, there is a growing thirst for innovative approaches to reducing our water footprint. Dry Run shows [...]
Everything Was Good-bye centers around Meena, a young Indo Canadian woman growing up in the lower mainland of British Columbia and traces her life as she struggles to assert her independence in a Punjabi community. Raised by her tradition bound widowed mother, Meena knows the freedoms of her Canadian peers can never be hers, but [...]
Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny (Oolichan Books: 2010): Background information Several decades ago in a writing workshop discussion about heroes in literature, I blurted out that Penelope, of Odysseus and Penelope, was, in fact, a hero. The rest of the class paused briefly (why is she bringing Homer Simpson into the discussion when she [...]
About Your Book: 1. What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? I think it has layers and therefor a broad appeal. At the heart, its a story about love and identity yet its also a story about cultural inheritance, family attachments, memory and loss. 2. Can you suggest one question [...]
In the Bear’s House was selected out of over 100 books from 10 countries as the 2009 Canadian Rockies Prize winner at the Banff Mountain Book Festival. Part fictional memoir, part social history, In The Bear’s House details the lives of two Scottish immigrant families in Calgary, the Dunlops and Lockes, and their raising of a [...]
Notes for Monday is the story of Tommy McBeath, the 75-year-old cranky, sexist, senior partner at a Calgary law firm. Set on the eve of Tommy’s retirement, amidst the pastel jackets and ongoing sports of the 1988 Olympics, this novella traces Tommy’s past and his relationship (or explosive lack thereof) with his career, his co-workers, [...]
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