Recently a discussion came up among fellow writers about the legitimacy of self-publishing versus legacy publishers. Some of the comments from my colleagues left me, frankly, startled. One writer commented that he had, ‘a deep-seated distrust of all things that smack of self-publishing,’ while another writer commented that ‘…”real” publishers regard themselves as such, and they regard everything from literary presses with two books a year down through small press, ebooks and self-publishing as being…

The T-Mobile Dance

I don’t often get political on this blog. Today, however, I feel I must. I am proud to be a Canadian. Proud of our peaceable nature, our multi-cultural society, our tolerance. I am also deeply shamed and humbled by our government’s historical and continued refusal to embrace our First Nations. Frankly, the conditions in which they live every day of their lives is like unto a war zone in some third world country. Watch this…