The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: books

  • 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…

  • In Praise of Editors

    I’ve just completed comments/corrections in response to the best copyediting of my academic work that I’ve ever experienced (for a forthcoming MLA volume on teaching Margaret Atwood). It was a marked contrast to some past mediocre experiences, and one real disaster, when an entire book manuscript, including my chapter, was outsourced to a non-English-speaking country…

  • Freedom to Read Week in Canada: February 23 to March 1

    This year I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about banned books (and it’s only February). In the United States, organized efforts are removing LGBTQ+ books from classrooms and school libraries; these initiatives are spreading to Canada and affecting community libraries, too, which is shocking. Next week is Freedom to Read Week in Canada, and…