Welcome to Dundurn’s Summer of Murder and Mayhem! As touched upon in our last post, we’re spending the remaining weeks of heat taking a look at our mystery and true crime titles and sharing our favourite picks, passages, and a few specially created posts from Dundurn staff and authors alike. There might be a giveaway or [...]
What? Did you know that we had alligators in Canada?
Well, Alligator Tugs actually — a paddle-wheeled tugboat designed specially to help move log booms over long, flat stretches of water using a strong cable and winch, AND capable of going overland at portages.
Intrigued?
Check out the recently released Alligators of the North, by Harry B. Barrett [...]
Last week, along with mystery writer Vicki Delany, I was a guest of the Public Library in Picton, Ontario. I read two scenes from my recently completed manuscript, Black Tupelo. The audience was relaxed and conversational, and one of the questions I was asked during the Q&A was “What are you working on now?” I [...]
My latest manuscript, Black Tupelo, took me three years to complete. I worked on it every day — creatively or editorially — weekends included, for months at a time. Every once in a while I would take a break for a week or two, but never for very long; when I’m writing a novel, I [...]
Although some people can write purely from their imaginations, others require actual experience upon which to base their writing. Stephen Crane never experienced combat, but he was able — through the power of his imagination — to create the most convincing of all Civil War novels, Red Badge of Courage. Conversely, Ernest Hemingway’s early novel, [...]
I wrote my first two novels — neither of which was published — in the 1980’s. The first one, called Country Music, was a coming of age story about a group of young men in Haliburton, north of Toronto. It almost made it; it was with Doubleday for eleven months, and the young editor who [...]
On October 21st, The Canada Council for the Arts announced the finalists for the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Awards. Dundurn is delighted that Liedewy Hawke was nominated for Translation – French to English for The Postman’s Round, a novel rich in its subtle evocations of the sober and precise art of haiku.
Here’s what the Canada [...]