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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

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I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

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At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

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I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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