Coach for hire
Having completed a training program with Erickson International College, former kidlit author Emily Madill of Nanaimo has contributed a blog… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
A Year of Borrowed Men
Michelle Barker’s A Year of Borrowed Men (Pajama Press 2015) arose from her mother’s childhood memories of Germany during World… FULL STORY
Unhanged Arthur Award winner
Nelson-based Rachel M. Greenaway’s first novel Cold Girl (Dundurn $17.99) won the Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime… FULL STORY
Red Star Tattoo
After graduating from the Simon Fraser University Writer’s Studio, Sonja Larsen published Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl… FULL STORY
Find a book, find yourself
When you are your own marketing manager, you’ve gotta be original. So Nina Shoroplova is hiding 27 copies of her… FULL STORY
Introverts out of the closet
Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England in 1954, Lesley Taylor of Richmond, B.C. was brought to B.C. in 1956 and grew… FULL STORY
Voices from the Valleys
Jodie Renner of Penticton is a fiction editor and blogger who has written three editor’s guides to writing fiction, Fire… FULL STORY
From bartender to life coach
Lorrie Forde is a self-designated life coach in Summmerland who has released Really Good F Words: Your Interactive Guide to… FULL STORY
Mighty Mouse & Monkey Guy
While dividing her time between B.C. and Ontario, three-time Olympic medalist Elaine Tanner, holder of five world records in swimming,… FULL STORY
Tod Inlet gets its due
Every inlet in B.C. deserves a book. Helen Piddington’s The Inlet: Memoir of a Modern Pioneer (Harbour 2001) recalls life… FULL STORY
A Greek myth completely different
Winning a Governor General’s award for children’s literature is high acclaim. Having a member of Monty Python read your books… FULL STORY
Brian, Rick & Mary
One of the most enduring B.C. titles has been In Search of a Legend, and Slumach’s Gold: The Search for… FULL STORY
Iceland beckons
When Harold and Diane Rhenisch first went to Iceland in 2010, they agreed they both wanted to stay. After their… FULL STORY
Compton wins City of Van Award
After a one-year stint at the Vancouver Public Library’s seventh writer-in-residence in 2011, Wayde Compton took over from Betsy Warland… FULL STORY
The upside of Down
Kari Burk is a landscape gardener and artist who lives with her 25-year-old daughter, search Mielle, in Castlegar, after parting… FULL STORY
Aldridge’s bridge to King George III
From 1980, Jim Aldridge, QC, has represented the Nisga’a First Nation in treaty negotiations, mainly as lead counsel, and as… FULL STORY
Kashmiri riches
The central poems of Ontario-born Rahat Kurd’s first poetry collection, Cosmophilia (Talonbooks $16.95), a term that means “love of ornament,”… FULL STORY
The Tree of Life
Since moving to a 2-acre farm and planting dozens of trees, Nikki Tate has come to appreciate “why trees just… FULL STORY
Mack talks back
Hudson Mack: Unsinkable Anchor (Harbour Publishing $24.95) is not a maritime book; it’s a media memoir by a man has… FULL STORY
Everyday Hero
Everyday Hero (Orca $9.95), the second book by Kathleen Cherry of Kitimat, will be a portrait of a schoolgirl, Alice,… FULL STORY
