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Kasey Goldstraw

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Vancouver , Canada

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Romance, Horror, Humor and Comedy

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Welcome to my author page! My name is Kasey, and I grew up in Vancouver. I received a BA in English at the University of British Columbia, and took some extra college writing courses in the 90s. I live in Toronto with my husband Peter and our son Dash, and for work, I operate a yoga studio called Tranquility Wellness. I love writing, but I also love helping people take care of their bodies and minds! I guess I wouldn't be totally happy just doing one or the other, which might make me different than some other authors.

My 'author secret' is that I came very close to NOT getting around to publishing my first novel, ARCHIBALD FULL FRONTAL (Iguana Books, 2018). I wrote a story about Archibald 20 years ago as part of a creative writing course, a Welcome to my author page! My name is Kasey, and I grew up in Vancouver. I received a BA in English at the University of British Columbia, and took some extra college writing courses in the 90s. I live in Toronto with my husband Peter and our son Dash, and for work, I operate a yoga studio called Tranquility Wellness. I love writing, but I also love helping people take care of their bodies and minds! I guess I wouldn't be totally happy just doing one or the other, which might make me different than some other authors.

My 'author secret' is that I came very close to NOT getting around to publishing my first novel, ARCHIBALD FULL FRONTAL (Iguana Books, 2018). I wrote a story about Archibald 20 years ago as part of a creative writing course, and my instructor liked it so much that he urged me to turn it into a novel. I did, but then life took over, and the darn thing sat in a drawer for almost two decades while I got married, had a child, moved halfway across the country, and opened that yoga studio.

Every now and then I would remember that I had a draft of a novel gathering dust in a drawer (do things really gather dust inside drawers?), and I knew I should polish it and try to get it published, but I never felt like I had the time.

It was my husband Peter who finally gave me a nudge. In fact, he's the main one who kept the book alive in our minds. About once a year, like the amazing and unique husband that he is, he would pull my manuscript out of its hiding place and read it from cover to dogeared cover. He would always say "You know what honey? This is damn funny. You should really try to get this published."

So I finally did. Readiness is a beautiful thing. Early in 2018, I reached out to Toronto hybrid publisher Iguana Books with the manuscript, and to my surprise, they loved it! One year later, here I am, the proud author of my first novel. It's a romantic comedy about a young woman named Maggie who is kind of drifting through life and who ends up taking a job as a personal assistant to a crotchety old novelist named, you guessed it, Archibald. Things go a little wacky from there as he turns out to be a seriously meddling old coot. True to the genre, there are a couple of eligible bachelors who are interested in Maggie, and she's caught between them while also trying to rein in a wildly misbehaving Archibald and teach him a lesson he won't forget.

It was super fun to write, and I'm really pleased that it's finally out in the world. If you like romantic comedies, please give it a go, and of course, let me know what you think! ...more

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Sarah's Nightstand

Hey everybody! Something very cool happened today. My book Archibald Full Frontal was chosen as part of a reading challenge being run by Sarah Swann, host of a US Booktube channel called Sarah's Nightstand.

Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UZ24FMHEGQ"

Sarah announced that as part of her challenge she plans to read five books, which she said is a little ambitious for her, since she Read more of this blog post »

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