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Place
a thing you tighten into as a trout tightens into
fast water.
Wallace Stegner - Wolf Willow (1955)
Place is
a critical element in storytelling. It’s
the stage on which characters perform, the environment they must navigate, and
it shapes who they are. In Wolf
Willow, Wallace Stegner painted an indelible portrait of the prairies – a place with images that
“…lie in me like underground water; every well I put down taps them.”
My
adopted home town of Moose Jaw is centre stage in Astraphobia, released
in July as part of BWL’s Paranormal Canadiana Collection. In the story, lightning stalks three
generations of the McKenzie family as they carve out a place for themselves in
the growing city of Moose Jaw.
Saskatchewan has some of the most extreme weather in Canada, including
violent thunderstorms and more than 600,000 lightning strikes a year – not the ideal place for
someone who is astraphobic.
Moose Jaw
also plays a starring role in my new novel Notorious, about murder,
meth, and money-laundering in Canada’s Friendliest City. Notorious is due out in November from
BWL. Stay tuned.
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Place is important. I remember when I first began writing, an editor commented on a rejection People do not live in a vacuum.
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