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Chelsey Cosh

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in in the GTA, Ontario, Canada
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Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Nonfiction

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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 ...more

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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)
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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.

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A gentle, kind read that spoke to me on a philosophical level. It's a coffee table book, no doubt, or rather a bedside table book, in my case, not meant to be consumed rapidly with the voracious appetite of a loyal reader but rather a page at a time, ...more
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Chelsey Cosh is on page 242 of 272 of The Comfort Book: "The western idea of self-empowerment requires you to become better, discover your inner billionaire, get beach-bodied, work, upgrade. It says the present is not enough. It's self-loathing masquerading as salvation."
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Chelsey’s Quotes

Steve Martin
“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”
― Steve Martin
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We accept the love we think we deserve.
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Neil Gaiman
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
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Stieg Larsson
“I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
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J.K. Rowling
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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This group is specifically for those of us who are elementary school librarians. I hope you will not only share what your read, but how you will promo ...more
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Hey Y’all, We’ve been reading together for awhile and we don’t know about you, but we’re ready to hear your thoughts and opinions. This group is a pl ...more
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Officially 15k Members Strong & Climbing!! Building and supporting a community of self-published authors dedicated to both sharing experiences and le ...more
31471 THE Group for Authors! — 13066 members — last activity Jul 26, 2026 09:23AM
This is a group for authors to discuss their craft, as well as publishing and book marketing.
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