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Alec Scott

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Hello! Until It Shimmers is my first book. It's a coming-of-age story. A young Canadian man moves from Toronto to London, to take jobs to figure out what to do with his life -- and to come out. Which he does, when his parents visit, in the immediate aftermath of a car crash.

It's had great reviews so far: The Globe & Mail said was “drenched in longing … [with] neither a word wasted, nor out of place.” Kirkus Reviews called it "a potent, vigorous coming-of-age tale featuring themes of identity, sexual liberation, and introspection."

Otherwise, I am a Canadian journalist, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, a contributor to the Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle and LA Times. I have gone all over the world on assignment and my travel pieces h
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Until It Shimmers

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“Ned and Daniel planned to mark the end of their time at Trinity with a fancy dinner to celebrate what was to be celebrated and mourn what wasn't. But shortly before the meal, Ned's best friend from high school, Cameron, phoned. He would be in Toronto, visiting from Vancouver that evening. Ned should have said he was busy, but he didn't, instead proposing Cameron join them at what they were silly enough to call their Last Supper. Daniel wasn't happy about it, but Ned insisted he couldn't disinvite Cameron ...”
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“Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer -- EM Forster, Howard's End”
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“Ned and Daniel planned to mark the end of their time at Trinity with a fancy dinner to celebrate what was to be celebrated and mourn what wasn't. But shortly before the meal, Ned's best friend from high school, Cameron, phoned. He would be in Toronto, visiting from Vancouver that evening. Ned should have said he was busy, but he didn't, instead proposing Cameron join them at what they were silly enough to call their Last Supper. Daniel wasn't happy about it, but Ned insisted he couldn't disinvite Cameron ...”
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