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Todd Lyons is a Canadian writer, podcast producer, and former radio broadcaster who now works in the public service by day and tells stories—sometimes deeply personal, sometimes deeply escapist—by night. His work blends dry humour, lived experience, and the occasional existential detour.

He’s the author of You Tried: A Deadbeat’s Guide to Self-Actualization (originally drafted in 2006 and later updated for readers with deeper eye bags and lower expectations), as well as Chrysogon’s Coterie, Wazo the Wildcard, and the upcoming Nightmare Voyager.

Todd has also produced too many podcast series including Read Me Somewhere, Indigenous Perspectives: Stories from Indigenous Public Servants, and Toddcast, with Todd Lyons—a name he did check first, on
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Not an Epic April Fools’ Joke (Unless the Joke’s on All of Us)

A small but satisfying update: both You Tried: A Deadbeat’s Guide to Self-Actualization and Wazo the Wildcard: Things Go Wrong, Mostly are now in the catalogue at the Ottawa Public Library.

This was not, strictly speaking, a surprise. I submitted them through the library’s Local Author program and then did what I usually do—forgot about it just long enough that the outcome could feel like a ple

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“Most days, I feel like I’m doing my best attempt at impersonating a normal human being.
Results vary.”
Todd Lyons, You Tried: A Deadbeat’s Guide to Self-Actualization

“A rejection letter from the Goodreads Author program invites you to respond to the email while changing the title and re-sending all the information you sent the first time.
Then, that email bounces back rejected with a note that says they no longer use that email address. It advises me to reapply using the same contact form that they originally rejected me with.
The clincher: I was rejected because my website uses a contact form, too.
No thanks, Goodreads.”
Todd Lyons

“You no longer pretend you’re climbing a ladder. You’ve kicked it over and made a quaint/kitschy bench out of the pieces. (Depends on who sees it.)”
Todd Lyons, You Tried: A Deadbeat’s Guide to Self-Actualization

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
George Carlin

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”
Brene Brown

“I'm not a failure. I just haven't succeeded yet.”
Arnold J. Rimmer

“Those who can, do; those who can't, criticize.”
George Bernard Shaw

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