Returning to the Village

Since Faux Ho Ho released on the Bold Strokes Books website yesterday, and last month a fellow author and wonderful friend Marie Bilodeau asked me "are there more Village stories?" when I tweeted about it, it occurred to me I should really try and put all the Village stuff in one place, in case someone …

The People in the Neighbourhood

Now that Of Echoes Born has been out a while—and I recently finished page proofs for Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks—I've been working on "Faux-Ho-Ho." "Faux-Ho-Ho" is a gay romance holiday novella with a "fake relationship" trope at the core, and it begins (and ends) in my fictional version of Ottawa's queer village (or, as …

Ian

The dedication for Of Echoes Born is to all the editors I've ever worked with, especially in short fiction, and two people in specific: Becky Cochrane and Timothy J. Lambert. They're wonderful authors (and also one-half of a wonderful quartet of authors who write under the pseudonym Timothy James Beck), and they gave me my …

Easter Eggs

Now that Handmade Holidays is out and about—thank all of you who pre-ordered or snapped it up right away, I actually hit the top-10 in my little "two hour read" category!—it turns out my next challenge was viral. I'm fighting off a cold, and it's a doozy, and so I've not been doing much in …

Sunday Shorts – “Threesome” Q&A with Lawrence Jackson

Has it been a whole week already? I'm back again today with more from Threesome: Him, Him, and Me, the collection of tales edited by Matthew Bright involving exactly what it says on the tin. Today I'm speaking with another new-to-me author, which always makes me happy, Lawrence Jackson. He was willing to have a …

Sunday Shorts – “Threesome” Q&A with N.S. Beranek

N.S. Beranek is another author I met through the incredible Saints & Sinners Literary Festival, and we've shared tables of contents a few times now (the first time, I think, was in one of the short fiction contests for the festival in question, come to think of it). I don't think I could come up …