Vancouver Writers Festival set to launch most star-studded chapter yet
The Vancouver Writers Festival is often B.C.’s biggest literary event of the year, but the 2014 instalment is looking to be a real blockbuster. The festival has managed to attract some of the biggest...
View ArticleCatching up with Vancouver, er, Toronto writer Alyx Dellamonica
I recently had the pleasure of moderating a couple of Vancouver Writers Festival panels, including one that featured William Gibson, Sebastien de Castell and Alyx Dellamonica. Afterward, the line for...
View ArticleB.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...
View ArticleVancouver 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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