I'm excited to announce the release of my new novel, Hunter's Daughter, by Canadian publisher Five Rivers. An historical mystery of the Canadian Arctic: Northern Quebec, 1964. Nilliq flees the hunting camp of her father, overland with a mysterious shaman. Mountie Jack McLain sets out in cold pursuit of a killer, and justice... HQ…
Tag: fiction
Plot, Character and Language in George Saunders’ Tenth of December
Reading these stories, it gets under your skin. It’s with you if you read before sleep, and again on waking in the morning. The forced-immigrant SGs with their wires through the brain, strung as ornaments in suburban gardens, and the poor journal narrator whose speech devolves into ESL-speak… the victims…
New Novel Coming
The month of September brings good news that Canadian publisher Five Rivers will be releasing my next novel, Hunter's Daughter. Against the exotic backdrop of the Eastern Arctic in an era of cultural transition (1964), this 94,000-word mystery tracks a suspenseful dual journey of transformation for an RCMP detective and a…
A Literary Odyssey to the Exotic Lands of Postmodern Fiction, Metafiction and Creative Nonfiction
Yesterday was a literary odyssey of sorts, as I cruised Russell Books in the writing and editing section and came away with M. H. Abrams’ almost comprehensive A Glossary of Literary Terms. Oddly enough, Abrams includes no entry at all for “Creative Nonfiction,” nor even for “Nonfiction” at all. The…
