Welcome to Five Questions With — a series where I talk with writers, publishers, agents, and other industry professionals about my favourite topic — writing! This week, I’m talking with Melanie Mayer about accidentally becoming a romance writer, balancing humor with horror, and what happens when you write a gargoyle love story so spicy you …
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 Martin Greening about Roman mythology with a fantasy twist, what crowdfunding a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) actually teaches you, and the joys (and heartbreaks) of editing a …
In my last post, I talked about the joy of coming out of winter depression and into the new creative life of spring. The way the thaw seems to happen all at once—how ideas break the dam and bombard me so fast, there’s literally no way I can bring them all to life. That’s how …
The other day, I posted in the Canada Writes Facebook group—run by CBC Books—about something that’s been on my mind lately: the proposed defunding of the CBC, a political promise of Pierre Poilievre. It’s interesting, and relevant to us as writers, that defunding the CBC is a political promise of Pierre Poilievre. I read today …
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 Robin van Eck about about what it takes to build a vibrant writing community, how the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society is reimagining literary spaces, and why …
Finnian Burnett 