"Edson’s vivid portrayal of the urban area, as well as the working class and underclass, creates a vision of Saint John that highlights the discrepancy between the pre-modern idyllic notion of life in Atlantic Canada and the more complicated reality of the region."


-The New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia

Sunday, September 9, 2007

EMWF, 9 September, 2007


The writers' fest was fun...I met Leon Rooke, Rawi Hage, Trevor Cole, Paul Glennon, Neil Smith....Drank some wine the night before, and the hangover settled my nerves for the reading and everything went well.

Am relieved and looking forward to promoting A Place of Pretty Flowers and hopefully doing more readings in the future.

Monday, September 3, 2007

A Place of Pretty Flowers

My third novel, A Place of Pretty Flowers, has just been published. It will be at least a few weeks before it will be made available through the usual places like Chapters, Coles, etc.

I will be reading from it this weekend at The Eden Mills Writers Festival...