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Q&A with Jennifer Crump, author of Canada Under Attack
How did you come up with the idea for this work?
A few years ago I stumbled across a Washington Post article in which author Peter Carlson proclaimed that, “Invading Canada is an old American tradition. Invading Canada successfully, is not.” I was reminded of Carlson’s words last year when I was in a meeting with [...]
Q&A with Natasha Henry, author of Emancipation Day
Tell us about your book.
My book, Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada, is about the history and evolution of the August first commemoration of the abolition of slavery in Canada and the diverse people who celebrated this popular annual event.
Tell us a little about the overarching theme of your work and why you felt compelled [...]
Q&A with Lee Lamothe, author of Free Form Jazz
Tell us about your book.
People doing what people do.
How did you come up with the idea for this work?
Someone told me about cops doing surveillance on a camper van and, ahead on the road, it exploded because it was a drug lab on wheels.
How did you come up with the title?
I think most of what [...]
Q&A with Don Easton, author of the Jack Taggart series
Tell us about your book.
The premise of Samurai Code depicts the extreme methods used by some organized crime families to protect themselves from informants or undercover police officers and reveals how innocent people can be targeted for murder.
How did you come up with the idea for this work?
I came up with the idea for this [...]
Q&A with Tom Henighan, author of Nightshade
Tell us about your forthcoming novel.
My first two attempts at fiction were mystery novels, one of them based on a real murder I investigated in the British colony of Aden (now Yemen), the other set in the north of England, where I lived and studied for several years. Later, as a university professor, I taught [...]
Q&A with Ray Argyle, author of The Boy in the Picture
Tell us about your book.
The Boy in the Picture, my third book, is the one with which I have the strongest personal connection. It tells the story of young Edward Mallandaine, the boy in the iconic photo of the driving of the Last Spike in the Canadian Pacific Railway. That momentous occasion back in 1885 [...]
Q&A with Peggy Dymond Leavey, author of Growing Up Ivy
Tell us about your book.
Growing Up Ivy is historical fiction for YA readers, set in Toronto and rural Ontario during the Great Depression. Twelve-year-old Ivy Chalmers is sent to live in the town of Larkin with her grandmother when the girl’s actress mother abandons her in order to try her luck on the stage in [...]
