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 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 …

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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 …

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Spring always feels like a time of waking up in my life. I deal with winter depression and in the darker, colder months, it sometimes feels as if I’m hibernating in my house, just trying to power through my to-do list, head down, eyes front. I feel as if very little new creativity comes out …

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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 Kendra Preston Leonard whose work in opera and academia challenges the status quo and uplifts voices too often left out. Your academic and creative work both focus …

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