At the Rainforest Writers’ Retreat – and back to my novel. Total excitement!
Rainforest Writers’ Retreat on Wednesday!!
Finished editing the novel for Edge (this round, at least) and want to get mucho short fiction out on the market in the next 2 days because Wednesday I head to the Olympic peninsula west of Seattle for Patrick Swensen/Fairwood Press’s writers’ retreat. THAT is reserved for my novel! Can’t wait!
Here’s the quote: “Most Canadian writers earn very modest incomes. Some writers try and get by on less than minimum wage. Some people say that’s our choice. And it is. But creating is our calling, our vocation.
Just like anyone else, creators need income to survive. Our incomes depend not just on sales. We also depend on income we receive when universities, colleges, schools, corporations and governments make copies of my works for their own use, instead of buying more copies of the original.
Copyright exists to protect creators. When others use our works, copyright law should ensure the people who worked so hard to produce them are compensated.”
Watch the video here.
Fantastic review of “Orange!”
This is so awesome! I got a great review of “Orange” in Adam Shaftoe’s Page of Reviews – he loved the story. You can read the review here.
Retreat on the weekend
Only a few more days to go–six of us going to Banff to lock ourselves into a condo for 3 days of uninterrupted writing! It will be great! Can’t wait to get back to the novel!