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Chelsey Cosh

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Chelsey Cosh has been writing all her life.

Formerly entertainment editor and co-webmaster of Canadian literary magazine What If, she mixes her writing with other pleasures, including her love of everything that pop culture and technology has to offer.

Her debut novel, Shannon Hollow, is set in Utah, capturing the experiences and attitudes of a small town's citizens and watching them change through the decades, moving from the dirty thirties right up to modern day. Her second novel, Last Seen Here, travels the globe as a father searches for his missing teenage daughter. She also writes non-fiction, like Reel Talk Irreverent Insights On Cinema And Television, a thirteen-essay collection on film and television. Look out for her next release c
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Chelsey Cosh I am currently working on a novel that combines elements of a missing persons mystery with a pseudo-historical romance. (Are the seventies historical …moreI am currently working on a novel that combines elements of a missing persons mystery with a pseudo-historical romance. (Are the seventies historical yet?)(less)
Chelsey Cosh Everyone has family secrets, so I took some of my family's deepest and darkest from the generations past (and passed). Using those true elements, I wr…moreEveryone has family secrets, so I took some of my family's deepest and darkest from the generations past (and passed). Using those true elements, I wrote a tale featuring fictionalized versions of people I know -- this person's eyes, that person's tone of voice, the slang from him, the tenacity of her. I combine them to make the characters I see in my mind's eye and then I place them in a situation that I find interesting. What would happen if suddenly she were to go missing? Would anyone care? Would everyone care? What about someone else? Would that change the dynamic? I throw them into the corn-maze. Then I let them work themselves out. Given their standing in life, given what they have, what they know, and where they're from, how would they deal with what is handed to them? Would they thrash through the field? Would they systematically map it out as they go? Or would they burn it all to the ground? In the end, it's not the idea that matters; it's the dynamics of the people. I try to make my characters people, not flat objects on a page. So my idea for my upcoming book comes from the people I've known, the people in my family, the community that surrounds me. This applies to all my novels, really. (less)
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The holiday season… quite an oddity this year. My family got struck with the great plague of late 2021, the Omicron variant, which I am confident they confused for seasonal allergies; yes, they were fortunate not to be dealing with anything severe.

So dinner was canceled.

I watched neither Elf nor National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation this year; the latter I would argue is the best holiday film of Read more of this blog post »
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