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Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s breakout thriller is an elegy for real-life victims

The hottest novel of the year to date, and quite likely the year overall, is Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s The Devil You Know. It’s an atmospheric thriller set in the Paul Bernardo era, featuring a young...

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Kobo announces $10,000 prize for new writers

Ebook retailer Kobo has announced a new, annual $10,000 Emerging Writer Prize for debut authors. The prize is open to authors who live in Canada and published their debut books in 2014. The prize will...

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B.C. writer Adam Lewis Schroeder diagnosed with brain tumour while writing...

  You may have noticed the recent craze in applying bacon to almost everything imaginable. Little Caesars recently announced a bacon-wrapped pizza, there are bacon alarm apps for your phone — there’s...

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B.C.’s bookish blades: Local writers carve out a new direction for genre writing

Historical thrillers are nothing new. In fact, they’ve been around since we started recording history. What are The Odyssey and Beowulf if not their era’s version of Dan Brown or Andrew Pyper? But a...

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Podcast: In Depth with Ian Austin — Megan Williams and her Interrupted Fairy...

Megan Williams lost her first love to cancer, and wrote about it in Our Interrupted Fairy Tale, a compelling saga of love and tragedy. Her self-published tale of resilience and heartache has resonated...

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Sci-fi awards turn into a real-life Star Wars as Sad Puppies slate sweeps...

A war has just broken out between the Social Justice Warriors and the Sad Puppies. If you think that sounds like some sort of bizarre science fiction story, you’d be correct. Sort of. The war in...

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Vancouver author Kristi Charish is living the dream

Kristi Charish is living every writer’s dream. A relative newcomer to the author’s life, she only started writing seriously five years ago. She already has a book series with a major publisher....

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Hugo nominees withdraw their works from award over controversy

Last week I wrote about the culture war ravaging the sci-fi and fantasy communities. In brief, the shortlist for the Hugo Awards, arguably the most notable prize for the genres, was swept by the Sad...

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Podcast: The Book Rogues take on the Sad Puppies and the war over this year’s...

In the latest Book Rogues podcast, I talk to Vancouver writer and podcaster Kristi Charish about the controversy surrounding this year’s Hugo Awards. The Sad Puppies slate more or less swept the...

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Vancouver writer makes the shortlist for Leacock Award

When Vancouver writer and playwright Aaron Bushkowsky sat down to write his novel Curtains for Roy, he tried to keep one piece of advice in his mind: “Don’t try to be funny.” So of course the novel...

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia may be the hardest-working writer in Vancouver

“You don’t forget where you grew up.” That statement may best describe Silvia Moreno-Garcia‘s debut novel, Signal to Noise. The book is a magical fable set in Mexico City, with two timelines. One...

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Spoken word artist Shane Koyczan pens new poem praising the wilds of B.C.

Spoken word artist Shane Koyczan first shot to fame for his poem We Are More, performed during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics. That piece was a rallying cry for Canadians, a tribute...

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Podcast: Adam Lewis Schroeder talks about writing a zombie novel while he had...

  A few years back, Penticton writer Adam Lewis Schroeder got the idea to write a zombie novel. It was a substantial departure for him, as his earlier books had dealt with the far east and would best...

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Scene & Heard: George Noory host of Coast to Coast AM

The host of Coast to Coast AM comes to town for a live program Scene & Heard with Stuart Derdeyn chats with George Noory, host of the late night radio talk show http://www.coasttocoastam.com/ and...

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“Everybody has a secret”: Russell Smith takes a darker turn in new...

What are you hiding from the loved ones in your life? This is the question that Toronto writer Russell Smith explores in the stories of his new collection, Confidence. There are hidden sexual...

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B.C. writers make the cut for Sunburst Awards shortlist

The shortlists have been announced for the 2015 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, and three B.C. writers have made the cut. Langley writer Ian Weir was nominated...

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Author Ian Weir loves grave robbing and raising the dead

Langley writer Ian Weir was recently shortlisted for the Sunburst Award, an annual literary prize that celebrates Canadian speculative writing. While Weir’s novel Will Starling isn’t exactly...

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CanLit’s $100,000 controversy: Canadian writers and publishers react

What price do you put on culture? That’s the question Canadian writers and publishing professionals have been asking in the wake of comments by Brad Martin, the head of Penguin Random House Canada....

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Vancouver fantasy writer signs blockbuster book deal

Vancouver author Sebastien de Castell says he’s finally made the career jump from barista to plumber. Not literally, of course. Well, maybe literally, because de Castell is talking about writing books...

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Robert Wiersema worships at the church of story

  There’s an old saying about Victoria that it’s home to the newly wed and nearly dead. Victoria author Robert J. Wiersema is much more interested in the nearly dead. Wiersema is often called Canada’s...

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Are the Hugo Hostilities finally over? Or are they just beginning?

Sad Puppies vs. the social justice warriors. To the average person, that may sound like the title of a bad science fiction movie. To the hardcore science fiction fan, though, it’s all too real. Science...

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Scene & Heard: John Kameel Farah and the Western Front’s 88 Bongos Concert...

Scene & Heard with Stuart Derdeyn talks to Toronto-based composer, pianist and visual artist John Kameel Farah (johnfarah.com) about his work and coming Solo for Four Hands appearance at The...

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Reimagine your world at this year’s Vancouver Writers Fest

Fall is always an exciting time in Vancouver, and not just because pumpkin spice lattes are back. It’s also the season of literary festivals. The next few months will see readers and writers flocking...

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Canadian sci-fi began with On Spec

For more than 25 years, On Spec magazine has been helping launch the careers of Canadian writers. But the future is uncertain for the literary journal. Billing itself as “the Canadian magazine of the...

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Give the gift of stories this Christmas with the Short Story Advent Calendar

When I was young, there were two things that really excited me about Christmas. The first was the advent calendar that I used to get every year, full of cheap chocolates that vaguely resembled...

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Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s thriller revealed the devil all women know: fear

Elisabeth de Mariaffi didn’t set out to write a thriller with her second book, The Devil You Know. She ended up writing one of the most talked about thrillers of the year. The book is set in 1993,...

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Scene & Heard: Diecember headbanging for the holidays

Scene & Heard with Stuart Derdeyn talks to local promoter and Bog singer Johnny Matter about Diecember Fest 7. The annual metal fest/charity event features 14 bands over two nights at the Rickshaw...

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The 12 books of Christmas

Christmas is rapidly approaching, and you know what that means: panicked last-minute shopping to fill the stockings you forgot about. Luckily, The Province is here to help. We’ve picked out some of our...

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Downtown Vancouver gets its bookstore back

Downtown Vancouver is finally getting its bookstore back — it’s just going to be a lot smaller. Due to a “significant” rent increase, Indigo Books & Music shuttered its 50,000-square foot Chapters...

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Todd Babiak channels The Shining in new book trailer

A few weeks back, Edmonton author Todd Babiak wrote a blog post on his site called “Breaking: white middle-aged man writes novel.” The post was a comical call for ideas on how to publicize Babiak’s new...

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