Tag: book-review
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Newspaper Coverage of Crime Fiction
I’ve been grumpy for some time about how diminished the Globe & Mail‘s book coverage has been, lo these many years. I miss having a Books section, with a weekly column on crime fiction by Margaret Cannon. (Dream job!) That’s down to once a month or less, and it’s more of a quick round-up. But…
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Solving Plot Problems
Most of my focus has been on revising a novel draft that I’ve despaired of, these past two years, since I completed my 75,000 or so words. [Worse than feared: 104,665, which is, for my chosen genre, a baggy monster of a book, and unpublishable as a first novel.] I could see the plot and…
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Iceland and International Women’s Day 2025
In the new documentary The Day Iceland Stood Still, director Pamela Hogan revisits October 24, 1975, when 90% of Iceland’s women walked off the job–at work and at home. For one day, they insisted, men could pay attention to how much they did, and how little their contributions were appreciated and rewarded. On International Women’s…
