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Join the Owl's Nest staff in congratulating Calgary author Marion Douglas on the publication of her fourth novel. Marion's short fiction has been published in The Journey Prize Anthology, Prism, Grain, and the The Capilano Review among other journals and literary reviews.

Set in 1970, Dance Hall Road examines adolesc...ence and adulthood, friendship and family within the ricochet of events through small-town life. When the death of another high school student pushes the Town into collective despair, harsh gossip and casually dropped pellets of blame take seed. Currents of anger and frustration are, in turn, meted out in the scapegoating of those who are decidedly different.

With a keen sense of the human experience, Marion Douglas portrays her characters with unflinching empathy. Evocative and multi-layered, Dance Hall Road invokes the contradictions of connection within the tenuous balance of regret and hope.
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FREE CHOCOLATE!

...now that I have your attention.

Want to start writing your book but don't know where to start? Join not one, but two successful Canadian authors for a discussion on just that topic.

(And, yes, there will be free chocolates.)

Born in Calgary, kc dyer now lives north of Vancouver where she works as ...a freelance writer, speaker and conference coordinator for the Surrey International Writers' Conference. She is the author of the Eagle Glen Trilogy and Ms. Zephyr's Notebook.

James McCann is the author of Rancour, Pyre, and the upcoming third book in the series, Dawn. Growing up on the icy plains of Manitoba, he spent most of his time as a teen reading comics and playing Dungeons and Dragons. Both hobbies taught him the storytelling skills he now uses as an author and creative writing instructor.

Both authors will be available to sign copies of their works. Read More