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Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview
Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel.
Zilla: We’re always here for love, but love doesn’t always return the favour. Darlene Madott’s anthology of linked love stories, Closing Ceremonies , takes us through the aftermath. Darlene, can you tell us about your take on love?
Darlene: Who among u
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"all I have to say is I am not sufficiently healed from the long buried traumas of a g20 a decade and a half plus in the past to not cry at the end of chapter 24."
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"In media res is really the coolest way to start an alt-history story, because half the pleasure of reading counterfactuals, even otherworldly magical ones, is in pattern-matching. this is especially the case when there can't be more than a few dozen*"
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Bodies are inane. Having one--cis, trans, mole-man, mole-thing, helicopter--is messy and repetitive and sad and poetic endurable. It must be endurable because we live messy and sad and repetitive lives, and sometimes we write poetry about it. > "Oh co ...more |
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“As far as I can tell, activism is composed of meetings, spreadsheets, and arts and crafts.”
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“One of the questions you ask writers to answer in their Query Tracker submissions to you is "Why are you querying me?" and I don’t know how to break this to you, but it’s because you’re an agent.”
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“Your agency bio states that you’re looking for great books but life is hard, Alister Tylte, and sometimes you have to settle for what you can get. Sometimes you’re someone’s McGill, but sometimes you’re their safety school, and that’s okay. I believe my book is a book, and you should probably be satisfied with that for your list.”
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“a damn roach…[that] scuttled around just like Nate; reappearing, existing forever, never dying. Like Twinkies. So bad, yet deeply desired.”
― Sushi and Sea Lions
― Sushi and Sea Lions
“But maybe healing from the wound on my foot was just the beginning. Maybe I still needed to heal the wound on my heart, too.”
― Sushi and Sea Lions
― Sushi and Sea Lions
“I couldn't believe this was happening. That I could possibly be everything Vinny wanted. That this was real life and I was here being carried to Vinny's bed like a princess. Like his princess.”
― Sushi and Sea Lions
― Sushi and Sea Lions
“I used to be alive, filled with fire, consuming the world like tomorrow might never come. I relished a good love story, the exertion of leaping across a ballet studio, the sighs a piece of art could emit from me. Since the injury, since my heartbreak, I'd lost my desire. It was time to find it again and the Billys weren't doing the trick.”
― Sushi and Sea Lions
― Sushi and Sea Lions
“I glanced over at...Billy? I think his name was Billy. If it was, he'd be the third one since the walking boot came off. Like the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Trip trap, trip trap right into my bed. Especially after one too many Pinot Grigios.”
― Sushi and Sea Lions
― Sushi and Sea Lions