Finnian Burnett

Author, Educator, Cat Person

Welcome to the 5 Questions Series. Each week, I’ll ask five questions of some of my favorite authors, editors, publishers, and other industry professionals. This week, I’m talking with Tyner Gillies. Tell me about your most recent book? What’s it about and what do you want readers to get from it My most recent published work, ‘The …

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I’m interrupting this space where I usually post “5 Questions With…” to write about a couple of things that happened in my life this week. First, I was awarded a grant to write my next novel from the Canada Council for the Arts!. As part of the condition of the grant, I’ll be spending two …

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Welcome to the 5 Minutes Series. Each week, I’ll ask five questions of some of my favorite authors, editors, publishers, and other industry professionals. This week, I got to talk to one of my favorite humans on the planet, Kris Bryant. Talk to me about Patreon. It’s rocking. What inspired you to start it and how …

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Yesterday’s Flash-Mo prompt was to give yourself an award and write an acceptance speech. I decided to give the award to someone else instead. Cat of the Year The curtains part and the crowd goes silent. Anticipation grows until the whole room practically thrums. Music plays, softly at first but building to a crescendo and …

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According to Tolstoy, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Marriages are like that, too. Relationships of all kinds. I could have written dozens of novels based on past unhappy relationships but my relationship with my wife, a happy, healthy, respectful relationship, leaves me with a decided lack …

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