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Muse Is Finished, Hooray!

I’m so excited. My second novel, Muse, is finally finished (to be published August 13, 2013 by Doubleday Canada), and my agents at Cooke International have taken it to the Frankfurt book fair. The fair began today and apparently an Italian publisher is already interested! I can hardly believe my good fortune. Buon giorno everyone!

A Tour of the Maritimes, 2009

In January 2009, I hopped an Airbus in Vancouver wearing new snow boots and carrying a down coat with a hood. I was heading to Saint John to read from my novel Conceit (Doubleday 2007) in the hugely successful Lorenzo Series, organized by poet-in-residence Anne Compton, the tastemaker of the Maritimes. Anne had arranged to bring me in a day early, in… Read More