Month: July 2009

This has been one of those newsy weeks. So last night I was offered (and was very happy to accept) the position of Calgary writer-in-residence for The Canadian Authors Association. This is the first time the program has been run in Calgary and if it works out well will hopefully become an annual thing. Right…

Got my contributor copies of The Fiddlehead 240 today, the summer fiction issue. My piece is an excerpt from Love Minus Zero, and they’ve linked to an excerpt from the excerpt on their website, here: http://www.thefiddlehead.ca/current.html Looking forward to sitting down and checking it out later, looks to have some awesome work in it. So…

Brief mention of me and Love Minus Zero in a piece by Eric Volmers on novels set in Calgary in today’s Calgary Herald, here: http://www.canada.com/News/Perfect+Setting/1760975/story.html Eric has been doing a great job of spotlighting local authors and their books, and I really appreciate it. It’s tough to compete with the big publishers and their big…

What made me think of this again? I don’t know, but last winter when I was doing research for a story I was writing, I came across this information about the phonautograph. You can hear a recording (admittedly quite hard to make out) of the inventor singing “Au Clair de la Lune” that was made…