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We’re literally carpeted in toxic smoke, but some moronic hosebags on our street are actually having a bonfire.

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This interview with Earth .org is 25 mins long, so you certainly get to know me and my book a bit. youtu.be/W-QryvYQgy4?...

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Calling whatever you do, for example, “(energetic funk-rock) for the End Times” isn’t funny, because it turns out the End Times aren’t humorous or fun at all.

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‘Birch and Jay’ is a very straightforward, direct story. That was deliberate. We are in the crisis now, the collapse, in fact. There is no time for screwing around with artful packaging of the message.

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You have to hand it to the Andamanese. Someone from our shitty collapsing world tries to come on their islands, and they take care of that problem.

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I remember the first time I heard music. I had been using Spotify to listen to a podcast about implementing AI to manage employee discipline when my finger slipped on the screen which somehow made the app play something called "Galway Girl by Ed Sheeran". I sat there confused, but also transfixed.

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Did a little video for my cover of Tim Buckley's immortal chestnut "Song to the Siren," me being yet another hipster to tackle the song, but I've been singing it for decades, so I feel my take is legit. youtu.be/M9doH-dcfnM

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A taped segment interviewing me was supposed to be on the local news today, but all I saw was another author talking about her picture book about a three-legged dog. I'm sure it's just delayed in being aired...…

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If you'd told me when I got my first bookstore job in high school or when I was starting my first publishing job that I'd have an excerpt of my novel in the industry periodical, I'd have been over the moon. quillandquire.com

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And this is the fucking problem. Canada still just wants Indigenous people out of the way or gone - at the exact time when Indigenous people’s leadership is most needed. This is a morally bankrupt petro-state.

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Well, both my spouse, who read it early, and my mom, who just finished it, liked my book, so no matter what, I’ll always have that (Mom is a pretty sharp cookie).

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If the Instagram algorithm is correct, the very best thing about being a celebrity is meeting other celebrities so you can be celebrities in a picture together.

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This DVD of the greatest concert film I’ve seen showed up in the post. I fully expect to choke up again upon viewing. Incredible work by Anathema and Lasse Hoile.

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I made a lyric video for my rather dramatic apocalyptic climate ballad, "Why Did We Do It?" which also crosses over to my recently released novel "Birch and Jay" (a character sings the song in the book). www.youtube.com/watch?v=re79...

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It’s no surprise that the only four countries that initially voted against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples were Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand.

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Here’s a public service announcement from me about ‘Birch and Jay’ and why you (and your teens) should read it. #booksky #postapocalyptic #youngadult #climatechange

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Here’s a public service announcement from me about ‘Birch and Jay’ and why you (and your teens) should read it. #booksky #postapocalyptic #youngadult #climatechange

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When you say you want our country to become an ‘energy superpower,’ you mean you want Canada to play a key role in our extinction. Don’t want to be left out of the fun?

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I’m still so moved by everything to do with Midnight Oil and don’t understand how more people don’t get how special they were.

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Have a happy and feisty Pride Month with some of these recent YA books by fine people I was lucky to work on.

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Happy Pride! Queerfolk? Our stories matter. Our voices matter. Our history matters. You matter more. This month is often a long, long one. We’re often at out best when we’re a chorus; lift other voices, breathe when you have to, hold the note while others breathe, and flame on. #PriDEMONth 😈

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I’m here for yet another musical celebrity you inexplicably anointed a moral hero letting you down.

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I made a lyric video for my rather dramatic apocalyptic climate ballad, "Why Did We Do It?" which also crosses over to my recently released novel "Birch and Jay" (a character sings the song in the book). www.youtube.com/watch?v=re79...

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The Elders of Norbay in ‘Birch and Jay’ have lots of wisdom to share with us.

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To each their own, unless it's the people who ACTUALLY are happy when confronted with a wall of beer called "sour" and "juicy IPA," not a non-Guinness stout or porter or red ale for purchase in sight.

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I didn’t expect the first Kayo Dot album I tried would sound like a goth version of Simple Minds, but it’s good.

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Well, a raccoon, an animal I haven’t seen since leaving the big city 10 years ago, just stole half our takeout order from our front step. Guess we’re urban now. How’s your evening going?

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I've been a professional editor for 27 years, but honestly, the idea of "famous editors" (which I just saw on another site) just feels silly to me. It's a good job, but why would you be "famous" for it? It's so glamorous to tell an author to fix the POVs and reverse chapters 1 and 2, ooh, ah.

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Now that the book is out, with its messages about the folly of climate denial and climate minimizing that likely won’t be read by nearly enough people, it’s going to be even harder for me to watch Canada burn every summer.

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If life was an ECM album cover, we wouldn’t have all these frigging problems in the world.

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‘Birch and Jay’ is not just another post apocalyptic adventure novel. It’s also about how we can heal instead of destroy, which is all modern human beings have ever done. We created this situation that will cause so much suffering, but do we have the courage and honesty to learn from our mistakes?

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