NYT obit writer makes her exit
Writing newspaper obits brings many rewards. Writing books brings even more.
Read MoreWhy I left The Writers’ Union of Canada
I joined because I believed in its goals, which included support for freedom of expression. I’m quitting because it moved to silence me after I submitted for publication a story its magazine editor had commissioned me to write.
Read MoreHow I responded to being censored by The Writers’ Union of Canada
I was commissioned by the editor of The Writer’s Union of Canada magazine to write an article about a major literary festival in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The editor killed the piece for no defensible reason. But I will not be silenced!
Read MoreThe surprise winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Award for nonfiction
This year’s Governor General’s Award for nonfiction went to an American-based journalist who writes mainly for American publications. I have a problem with that.
Read MoreDon’t let your books go out of print!
My advice for any author whose book has been delisted from a trade publisher’s catalogue.
Read MoreThe colourful sex life of Con Boland
Edmonton photographer Con Boland died this week of cardiac arrest at age sixty-nine. Here’s some of what I wrote about him in 2003, eight years after his former sex partner, Marilyn Tan, went to court to face an assault charge for injecting him with HIV-positive blood:
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