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 by Nicholas Maes, author of Locksmith and Laughing Wolf

One of my teacher friends keeps telling me that Locksmith is her favourite teen fiction!  Nicholas Maes has just released a new book, Laughing Wolf.
Tell us about your book.
Locksmith tells the story of 12-year-old Lewis Castorman who can pick any lock, no matter how complicated it might be. His talent comes to the attention of the [...]

Dressing Up An Old Friend

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 [...]

Salvaging A Novel I Wrote In 1983

My first novel, like most first novels, was transparently autobiographical. It was also, I’m guessing, derivative of writers I admired at the time I wrote it, which was 27 years ago, writers like Hemingway and Faulkner. I am guessing that this is the case because I haven’t reread it since it was rejected, after 11 [...]

How I Keep My Tools Sharp

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 [...]

WHAT I’M WORKING ON NEXT

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 [...]

Review round up

Tess Bridgewater of the Waterloo Region Record on Pat Mattiani Mestern’s Granite:
“What Mestern does best is paint evocative pictures of the lovely rural area in the rolling hills between Fergus and Collingwood, and Shelburne to the east.
The book is worth reading for this alone, especially if you are familiar with the area.”

Alberta History on David Elliott’s Adventures [...]