So you’re writing or thinking about writing a novel. To put it mildly, you are not alone. The questions I’m asked most in the course of meeting hundreds of people promoting the Sanibel Sunset Detective mysteries have to do…
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SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A NOVEL…(And Who Doesn’t?)
Tagged with: Agatha Christie, Amazon, David Halberstam, Erniest Hemingway, Gore Vidal, Harold Robbins, Irving Stone, Irving Wallace, Jerzy Kosinski, Jim Thompson, Leon Uris, Margaret Lawrence, Mickey Spillane, Nora Roberts, Norman Mailer, Peter Maas, Pierre Berton, Steohen King, Theodore H. White, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, William Goldman
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How I Didn’t Host Canada AM and Saved Canadian Television
No sooner had I escaped the clutches of the Toronto Star than a producer at Canada AM, the CTV network’s long-running version of America’s Today Show, phoned to ask if I would be interested in becoming one of the hosts.…
Tagged with: Canada AM, CFTO, Charles Templeton, Craig Oliver, CTV, Helen Hutchinson, Irish Rovers, Norm Perry, Patrick Watson, Pierre Berton, Ross MacLean, Toronto Star
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Remembering Farley Mowat
Many years ago, a young reporter trundled off to Port Hope, Ontario outside Toronto to interview Farley Mowat. The best-selling author of such ground-breaking Canadian non-fiction as People of the Deer and Never Cry Wolf was deathly ill with the flu…
Tagged with: Canada, Farley Mowat, Justin Trudeau, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Trudeau, Mordecai Richler, Peter Newman, Pierre Berton, Pierre Trudeau, Port Hope
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