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THE SHIELDS PRIZE, AMAZINGLY
The life of unremitting glamour, last week, included going to Nashville to help out at this launch event, which took place wildly against the odds...
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The Book Tour Life of Unremitting Glamour
Coughing my way to stardom...
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Another Book Tour Comic
For you, Dear Reader. Because you appeared to like the other ones.
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SOME VERY BASIC BASICS ABOUT WRITING NOVELS.
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THREE DOMESTIC FOWL TRAGEDIES
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The Book Tour Life of Unremitting Glamour
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THE EDITORIAL PROCESS!
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ON THE ROAD. AGAIN. STILL.
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ON THE ROAD. AGAIN. STILL.
Are book tours the champagne-fuelled, peeled-grape, fan-filled extravaganzas you'd like to think they are? Not exactly. And especially not once upon a…
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THE EDITORIAL PROCESS!
The Ants Do Their Thing
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What Is This Health Care, Earthlings? #2: THE TOMMY DOUGLAS TEA TOWEL
Before Tommy Douglas, there was what?
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What Is This Healthcare, Earthlings? #1: THE NURSE ANTIGONE
In which I played a crabby old prophet who is always right.Typecasting: such a burden!
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CAN CANCON OR CAN’T IT, EH?
Reflecting on Bill C-11 and “Canadian Content.” What is it I’m not understanding?
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BIG LARRY
Remembering an old friend...
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THREE FAILURES
The second prize in the doll’s dress contest, the forgotten musical, the unfinished novel: they haunt me still, sort of.
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In the Writing Burrow
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