Shelf Monkey manhandled by Canadian television actor!

Did any­one catch last night’s episode of Being Erica on CBC? I didn’t, but that’s mostly because, liv­ing a mere half-kilometre away from the local sta­tion, I some­how am out of their broad­cast range. Nev­er­the­less, asute view­ers informed me that my beloved, oh-so-close-to-national-debate-worthy novel Shelf Mon­key made its national tele­vi­sion debut! … Con­tinue read­ing

Shelf Monkey gets a gun permit!

I won’t usu­ally repost other posts, but thanks to the good peo­ple at io9 (as well as Mar­vel Comics, appar­ently), this pic­ture is now one of my favourite, most iconic images ever:Isn’t that amaz­ing? No news on what it rep­re­sents, but I think myself (Shelf Mon­key), Mark Rayner (Mar­vel­lous Hairy), … Con­tinue read­ing

Quick interview in Seattle’s The Stranger

Who is that won­der­fully hand­some man grac­ing the front page of Seattle’s only news­pa­per The Stranger (online edi­tion) ? Why, it’s me! Book edi­tor and swell fella Paul Con­stant has done a quick overview of the ben­e­fits of self-torture though the infa­mous 3 Day Novel Writ­ing Con­test. In the course of his … Con­tinue read­ing