Here, read this…
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Griffin Prize Shortlist
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Ding Dong—Author calling…
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Take heart: this was rejected thirteen times
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Poetry Month
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Curious about George?
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Book Titles
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Goodbye Fuddy Duddy… it’s been a slice
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The Art of Cheese
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Poetry and Sports
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One Man’s Happy Place
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Perspective is a beautiful thing…
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Sobering Thoughts… 
And Cheese of course…..
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Keeping it Real, or Selling Out?
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A room of one’s own… or perhaps just a simple
dank basement with parasites…?
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Atlantic Book Awards, Shortlist
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When the independent bookstore goes the way of the dinosaur, whose fault will it be? Only by supporting them will they survive. It’s up to us.
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Canada Reads (the original) Begins!
11:30 a.m. daily on CBC Radio One (7:30 p.m. on CBC TV)
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Because there is never enough
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Because we love words…
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Because it’s Friday…
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He should have golden arches on the covers of his books.
Happy Thursday!
Building an author’s “platform”
Author platform vs. writing platform
10 Ways to Build Your Writer’s Platform
The difference between building a fiction and a non-fiction platform
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When you’re blocked…
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New Writing School
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Al Purdy’s A-Frame
And because we’re feeling poetic… THIS, from The New Quarterly
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Terry Fallis on ‘Canada Also Reads’…
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On the subject of (mis)using language…
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Crash Blossoms and other Oddities…
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The Power of ‘Out There’….
Only heard about THIS VIDEO yesterday but apparently a few others already knew about it. Something like 45 million views on YouTube. The short story is that a guy posted an animated video back in 2006, it immediately went madly and (when you see the tape you’ll know what I mean) unexplainably viral. Weirder still, the fascination with it continues.
The guy of course has since launched an extremely successful film and video business as a result.
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Choose Cheese Instead…
Happy Thursday!
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Second World War = Bestseller?
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Bill Watterson Interview
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Ray Robertson on book reviews
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Happy Thursday!
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