HUSK Reading Questions

Zombie Reading

Derek Newman-Stile of the ter­rific web­site Spec­u­lat­ing Canada often goes above and beyond the call of duty. What do I mean by that? Well, how about cre­at­ing dis­cus­sion ques­tions for Husk? I haven’t even done that, and I wrote the freak­ing thing! [The fol­low­ing was orig­i­nally posted on Spec­u­lat­ing Canada on … Con­tinue read­ing

Speculating Canada is speculative with me

Zombie at the keyboad

I recently had a chance to talk (email-wise) with Derek Newman-Stile of the amaz­ing Cana­dian genre blog Spec­u­lat­ing Canada, a web­site chock full of Cana­dian science-fiction, fan­tasy, hor­ror, and other what-have-yous. Derek is a tire­less reviewer and a peer­less inter­viewer, as I found out, and while my fin­gers were nigh-exhausted … Con­tinue read­ing

Take Five, with Corey Redekop (from Suduvu.com)

Zombie Crossing

The fol­low­ing online inter­view was orig­i­nally pub­lished on Suduvu.com, 27 Jan­u­ary 2013. Corey Redekop is the con­trib­u­tor for this week’s Take Five, a reg­u­lar series where we ask authors and edi­tors to share five facts about their lat­est books. Redekop is the author of Husk, avail­able now. I’m going to now … Con­tinue read­ing

The bibliophile visits the Biblio File

Micro Book

Dur­ing a brief visit to Ottawa last year, I gave what turned out to be one of the last read­ings at the great, sadly now-lamented inde­pen­dent book­store Col­lected Works. I had a fine evening, every­one was great, I left with a warm feel­ing in my heart that turned out to be … Con­tinue read­ing

Zombies, Witches, Killers and Cowboys: Visions of the Future Novel

Dur­ing my week-long stay at the Inter­na­tional Fes­ti­val of Authors in Toronto (amaz­ing!), I was for­tu­nate enough to be on a round table panel fea­tur­ing some ter­rific authors. Mod­er­ated by Andrew Pyper, the panel, enti­tled “Zom­bies, Witches, Killers and Cow­boys: Visions of the Future Novel,” con­sisted of yours humbly, Deb­o­rah … Con­tinue read­ing