Unmanned contends for Ryga Award
Drones are President Obama’s weapon of choice. It’s just one of the reasons John Hill and Ann Rogers have co-authored… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Generally giving a damn
Christine Lowther, daughter of Pat Lowther, has written about her family background, and how the murder of her mother by… FULL STORY
Anything was possible in Joan’s world
“I know that many writers tell you to imagine you are writing for a specific child, but I always want… FULL STORY
McKenzie bags five-book deal
Grant McKenzie’s agent Amy Moore-Benson at AMB Literary Management has arranged a five-book deal for him with Polis Books for… FULL STORY
Musgrave gets her due
Susan Musgrave of Haida Gwaii has been honoured with the $20, 000 Matt Cohen Award from the Writers Trust to… FULL STORY
Withnail & I Go To The Okanagan
Anyone who has enjoyed the wisecracking tomfoolery of Steve Coogan and his fellow impressionist Rob Brydon as unlikely restaurant critics… FULL STORY
Inuvik medicine in the 1970s
Lianne Lecroix grew up on a farm in the French Canadian Ottawa Valley as the eldest of six childen. After… FULL STORY
Kafka goes to Manning Park
Ernest Hekkanen will be launching his novella, I’m Not You, at the Oxygen Art Centre in Nelson, B.C. on November… FULL STORY
11 books in 10 years
Carrie Mac’s experiences in the Downtown Eastside continue to fuel her work. Homelessness, addiction, teen pregnancy and crime are the… FULL STORY
Romance in Victoria, 1877
Chad Strong’s first novel, High Stakes, is a western romance set in Victoria in 1877. The main characters are a… FULL STORY
From Albrecht to Zieroth
Foreign artwork and unfamiliar music can be an elixir for creativity, and so David Zieroth has responded to great artists… FULL STORY
Walhachin revisited
James Ferron Anderson was born in Northern Ireland and worked there as a glassblower, weaver and soldier. He took a… FULL STORY
Gabriola gets a prize winner
Claire Eamer has lived in Whitehorse, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and parts of Germany and England, prior to moving to Gabriola… FULL STORY
Counter-Culture rock revisited
From 1965 onward, The Afterthought was the name of a music promotion enterprise that surfaced for rock and psychedelic music… FULL STORY
Rambunctious to an extreme
Jackie Bateman commenced her trilogy of thrillers about a suspected serial killer named Oliver with the oddly titled Nondescript Rambunctious… FULL STORY
Stanley, North of California
Born in San Francisco in 1934, poet George Stanley grew up in San Francisco where he became associated with the… FULL STORY
Like mother, like daughter
Annie Watts’s second cookbook, beHealthy Cookbook (Port Alberni: AWL Publishing $20), provides 14 reduced-calorie menu plans (just 1,680 calories each)… FULL STORY
Reclaiming Haida Gwaii
Louise Takeda is a Research Affiliate with the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance. Her Master’s degree in Environment and Development… FULL STORY
Marinetti & Mussolini
Richard Cavell, among other things, is the first Canadian to have taught Canadian Literature at the University of Padua. His… FULL STORY
Sister to the rescue
After Dayle Campbell Gaetz’ 2013 novel, Taking the Reins, won a Moonbeam Gold Award for historical fiction, she will follow… FULL STORY
