Penguin Canada to publish My Heart Is Not My Own September 26, 2012 (Toronto) – Penguin Canada is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Michael Wuitchik’s compelling novel, My Heart Is Not My Own (previously Three Stone Fire), set to publish in Summer 2013. The book was acquired in a competitive bid by Penguin’s Commissioning […]
Musings
Passion Play in the Serengeti
Two million animals in search of the tall grasses. An endless circle, with no beginning And no end. Languid walks along the plains, The sweet grasses disappearing within days of their coming, The relentless movement of wildebeest The life-force of the Serengeti. A passion play of hunters and hunted, Repeating through the millennia. At the […]
Back to the beginning….
Thanks to my agent, Drea Cohane, My Heart Is Not My Own is finally getting into the hands of acquiring editors. And so my thoughts return to the beginning…. In 2000, during the civil war in Sierra Leone, I visited a refugee camp in Freetown. I remember several images from that trip, but one in […]
My birthday surprise….
Shelley packed a bag for the two of us, My birthday surprise. Take Marley and Finnegan out to the car and wait, she said. Nice. Going away for 2 days and I don’t even pack a toothbrush, I’ve got it all covered, she assured me. She took us up-island. On the Malahat before she spilled […]