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October 27, 2012
More Magazine Reviews Susan Swan’s The Western Light
This month in More Magazine four authors look at love, lineage, and, most of all, loss. Click the image to read:
The Rosalind Prize for Fiction is Born
The Following is an excerpt from the Globe and Mail article, “Canada’s Orange Prize: Why we created an award just for female writers” By Marsha Lederman Published October 24th How is a new literary prize born? Out of frustration, it seems. The rain was teeming that night, but the real storm was happening onstage at [...]
October 17, 2012
Nominate The Western Light as this year’s pick for Canada Reads
“With its focus on winter in northern towns, pre-medicare medicine, hockey and the very relevant issue of concussions among professional athletes, Swan has added another gem to the Canadian canon.” - NOW Magazine This year, Canada Reads is taking the battle of the books and is dividing it along geographical lines. Please join the campaign to [...]
October 13, 2012
WordFest: How should a writer be? Tips from living writers about the writing life
By Susan Swan and Julie Wilson, Calgary Herald: October 2012 Matin Amis in his pre-dental-do-over-days, image from article “Martin Amis and the War Against Clichés in Writing” on bookbaby.com ————- When I think about how a writer should be, I think of Martin Amis and his teeth. Martin Amis allegedly spent over half a million [...]
The Western Light is ranked as the hottest new book release by Chatelaine
Chatelaine Book Club picks Susan Swan’s The Western Light as the number one hot new book release this October, 2012. For the full article “12 hot new book releases for October 2012″ click HERE.
October 9, 2012
Making the Calgary Festival Scene
Just arrived in Calgary for Wordfest which this year has 70 writers and 65 events over six days in Calgary and Banff. Flew in with Julie Wilson, author of Seenreading, who was herself reading a new hot novel titled Malarky along with Russell Wangersky, whose book Whirl Away was shortlisted for the Giller. Good discussion [...]
October 8, 2012
Vancouver Sun Praises The Western Light as a “Spellbinding Tale”
Mystery of goodness meets evil in coming-of-age tale Novel’s heroine Mouse Bradley meets and falls in love with ‘hockey murderer’ committed to local psychiatric hospital THIS EXCERPT IS FROM THE ARTICLE BY M.A.C. FARRANT FOR THE VANCOUVER SUN OCTOBER 6, 2012 There is something deliciously Twin Peaks about Susan Swan’s new novel, The Western Light. [...]
October 5, 2012
Swan’s Q and A on The Western Light
1. In this novel, you’ve returned to the narrator, Mouse Bradford, in your bestseller, The Wives of Bath. Why? Mouse Bradford is my favourite alter ego. She appeared in The Wives of Bath first. But you don’t have to have read that novel to understand The Western Light. In this book, Mouse tries [...]
October 3, 2012
The Western Light praised as “a novel for all generations”
The reviews are in and the praise for Susan Swan’s The Western Light is coming in from critics and readers alike. Here is one of the latest articles from New Brunswick’s Telegraph-Journal: Susan Swan explores Ontario’s merciless winters, hockey, family, health care, boomtown Petrolia, and the joys and sorrows of being human in The Western Light. [...]
September 26, 2012
Projections of the Western Light
A BookShorts Video Featuring Susan Swan Sep.26.2012 (Toronto, ON) … BookShorts Literacy Program is pleased to announce the premiere of the company’s most recent production, Projections of the Western Light, a video book trailer inspired by author Susan Swan’s novel, The Western Light (Cormorant Books). The video is now online at MovingStories.TV >> http://www.movingstories.tv/westernli... BookShorts [...]
