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Mini-interview of Ken Scholes

long walksRemember that little mini-interview series I started a while ago over at The Green Man Review’s sister site, Sleeping Hedgehog? I’ve been calling the series 3 to 3, posing 3 questions apiece to three fellow attending pros at various literary events. The latest of these has just gone live, wherein I chat with Ken Scholes, author of this book, this book, and this book, among others.

Does the proximity of the phrase sky bridge to the phrase booze and book wagon affect you in any special way? Me too.

3 to 3: Norwescon 2014 with Ken Scholes

2014 Sunburst Award

Sunburst Award
Sunburst Award

I’ve been lying low recently, reading like a fiend in my capacity as Chair of this year’s Sunburst Award Committee. Each year the Sunburst Award recognizes exemplary Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in both adult and young adult categories published during the previous calendar year.  — Honored! Elated! Busy reading! That’s me.

Read more about the Award and my fellow 2014 jurors Paul Glennon, Robert Knowlton, Nicole Luiken, and Derek Newman-Stille on the official Sunburst site.

3 to 3 interviews at Sleeping Hedgehog

sh_header6In the guise of my alter ego Camille Alexa, I’ve been conducting a short series of brief interviews over at The Green Man Review sister site, Sleeping Hedgehog. The first of these was with opera singer and luxe fantasist Louise Marley.  The second with voracious writer (and master of the Hawaiian shirt) Jay Lake. Watch in the coming days for a fresh interview, this time with fellow 2010 Endeavour Award finalist Kay Kenyon. . .

Interview up at Speculating Canada

Speculating Canada claims “Canadian SF, fantasy, and horror have been cast into a literary ghetto under the power structure of CanLit, and cast as either inferior literatures, or literatures that are not ‘of here’, i.e. from abroad. Yet, Canadian speculative fiction has a long history in Canada and engages with IMG_1610ideas of Canadian identity, belonging, and concepts of nationhood, place and space (both ‘the final frontier’ type, and the geographical)…”

Today, Derek Newman-Stille grills me on a series of topics about speculative literature and the Canadian scene, in response to which I discuss fashion statements, broken grammar, yams, and the end of the world.  He kindly says, “ Her love of writing and joy at playing with literary work comes through in the interview below as well as in her fiction writing.”

Check out the interview in its entirety at the site.