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  • Transnational Canadas

    Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization

    by Kit Dobson ...
    Series series TransCanada
    Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in transnational studies can provide new insights for researchers and students.Arguing first that the dichotomy of Canadian ... Read more

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  • Producing Canadian Literature

    Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace

    Series series TransCanada
    Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace brings to light the relationship between writers in Canada and the marketplace within which their work circulates. Through a series of conversations with both established and younger writers from across the country, Kit Dobson and Smaro Kamboureli investigate how writers perceive their relationship to the cultural economy—and ... Read more

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  • Opening Up To Indie Authors

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    Series series An Alliance of Independent Authors Self-Publishing Guide
    You've self-published a book and you'd like to see it in your local library or bookstore or the review pages of your favourite newspaper. You'd like to speak or read at a literary festival or event. You'd like to enter it for a book award or prize. This Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) guide will tell you how to recognise opportunities, work with publishing partners and open doors, and keep ... Read more

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  • Speaking in the Past Tense

    Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction

    by Herb Wyile ...
    “Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid enough to step onto what is, practically by definition, contested territory.”— Herb Wyile, from the IntroductionThe extermination of the Beothuk ... the exploration of the Arctic ... the ... Read more

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  • The Self-Publisher’s Ultimate Resource Guide

    Every Indie Author’s Essential Directory—To Help You Prepare, Publish, and Promote Professional Looking Books

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  • Write Your Novel in a Month

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    by Jeff Gerke ...
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    by Larissa Lai ...
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    by Patty Jansen ...
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    You intend to self-publish or have published a book or two. You’re not selling very well and wonder why not. You feel you should be doing something, but the thought of “marketing” gives you nightmares.You don’t want to become one of these people shouting “Buy My Book!” on Twitter.But you would still love to start selling some books, and pay some or even all of your bills with your writing income ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood

    Edited by Coral Ann Howells ...
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    Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood ... Read more

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  • Stop Worrying; Start Writing

    How to Overcome Fear, Self-Doubt and Procrastination

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