The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Visions and Revisions, Or How to Lose 26K Words in Two Weeks While Dreaming of Icebergs

    Photo credit: Dylan Kereluk from White Rock, Canada; used under a CC license. Description: Newfoundland coast and iceberg. I have a word length problem. By May 1, I need to chop a minimum of 26, 232 words from the second draft of my first mystery novel. On that May Day, a very good developmental editor…

  • Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!

    Photo credit: Paige K Parsons for Rabbit.org Foundation Welcome to April! Easter is coming, and the etched coloured glass eggs I ordered as my treat arrived yesterday; now I’m trying to figure out how to construct an indoor Easter bush that does not entice the cat into potential disaster. First, though, we have to get…

  • Bonus Sunday CNF Essay: Horror in the Hallowed Halls of the Academy

    This piece is part of a collection of lyric essays that I wrote under the gentle and generous supervision of Becky Blake. U of T has a terrific Creative Writing Program Certificate through Continuing Studies; it was a valuable introduction, for me, to providing and receiving writing workshop feedback. My MFA, starting in May, will…