In The Saturday Night Ghost Club, protagonist Jake Baker looks back on his boyhood relationship with his uncle Calvin.
My uncle owned a shop, the Occultorium, at the top of Clifton Hill.The name was spelled out in Gothic lettering on the marquee, while below, in elegant script, the slogan--Investigating the dark cubbyholes of otherworldly experience... (p. 32)In the 1980s, the year Jake turned twelve years old, he spent the summer chasing ghosts with his uncle. Was his uncle teaching him to deal with his fears or was something else going on? (Adult Jake--with the perspective time has bought him--believes that his uncle was trying to deal with his own nightmares.)
Jake grows during the course of the summer. He learns to confront his fear and stand-up for himself.
Published by Knopf Canada
Published in 2018
Under the pen names Patrick Lestewka and Nick Cutter, Craig Davidson writes horror. The Saturday Night Ghost Club--literary fiction--includes some tantalizing scary scenes and in this way serves as an introduction to his other work.
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Freedom to Read
Celebrate the 35th anniversary of Freedom to Read from February 24 to March 2
Freedom to Read week is an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom...
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March on this blog...
In like a lamb
and out like a loin
or
In like a loin
and out like a lamb
Whatever the weather we'll have fun. We'll start the month with a list of Canadian picture book publishers. The ink is still wet on the short story and poem I wrote for you. And I've reviewed two prize-winning books: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan and A Wake for the Dreamland by Laurel Deedrick-Mayne. I'm looking forward to spending March with you.
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Sharing my author journey...
This month a writing group invited me to talk about my author journey. My goal was to provide information drawn from
