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Helen Walsh is the founder/president of Diaspora Dialogues, Canada's premier literary mentoring organization. Formerly the publisher of the Literary Review of Canada and a founding director of Spur festival, Walsh previously worked as a film and digital media producer in Los Angeles and New York City. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Walsh's first novel, PULL FOCUS, published in Fall 2021:

"Two thumbs up for action, suspense, and lust."
– Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

"[An] accomplished thriller debut [...] Walsh’s expert knowledge of the film industry, the corporate world, and the ruthlessness of players in both adds arresting verisimilitude to this novel. Great for fans of Britt Lind’s Deception & Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Malibu Rising."
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August. Edinburgh.

As my friend Clare says, come August I turn into a lemming and instinctively migrate back to Edinburgh for festival time.

People are always curious what the experience is like. So I thought I’d keep a diary this year, and share excepts with you. This is Part 1.

Thursday. London.

6am. Land Heathrow Terminal 5 on British Airways. Didn’t sleep even five minutes. I’ve finally given up the hope Air Canada

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“I had no concrete details, no proof, only dark suggestions whispered between women in the industry over drinks, quietly, the fear of a libel suit or vendetta ever present.”
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“There are the grace moments in life when you’re able to ride the wave just ahead of the piper, and there are others still when debts must be paid.”
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“Like Alice, I kept sliding further down the rabbit hole, but life had proven to be one rabbit hole after another, so ordinary was a difficult concept to judge.”
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“The baddies would quake, the babies would live, and if there was collateral damage of the slow-moving who couldn’t get out of the way, whoever said life was fair was a loser anyway.”
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“Give a foolish, weak man with a Mussolini self-image enough rope and he’ll hang himself, or so my hope in retributive justice went.”
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“Death is not revenge. It’s the only choice left to you, a preventative measure, in a game whose rules were rigged before it began.”
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“What I failed to recognize, at least until it became impossible not to, is how the kind of intense anger that burned inside Clare justified its own set of rules. Or just how much it would come to mirror my own.”
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