Every month, we invite an author to write on our blog about their writing passion. Here are our featured authors.

April 2012 Featured Author: Terry Fallis

Terry Fallis is the author of The Best Laid Plans, and The High Road, satirical novels of Canadian politics. His debut novel (TBLP) was originally self-published in 2007 and won the 2008 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Then McClelland & Stewart published TBLP in September 2008. He also won the Gold Medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awardsin the Regional Fiction – Canada East category. In 2010, the Waterloo Region chose The Best Laid Plans as the One Book, One Community selection. In February, 2011, The Best Laid Plans was crowned the winner of CBC Canada Reads as the “essential Canadian novel of the decade.”

In November 2011, CBC-Television announced that The Best Laid Plans is indevelopment as a six-part TV miniseries. McClelland & Stewart published the sequel to The Best Laid Plans, called The High Road, in September 2010. It was a finalist for the 2011 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, in April, 2011. McClelland & Stewart will publish Terry’s third novel, Up and Down, in September 2012.

For more info, visit www.terryfallis.com

Read Terry's blog post: Literacy as a critical economic indicator!

March 2012 Featured Author: Guy Gavriel Kay

GUY GAVRIEL KAY is the author of ten previous novels and a volume of poetry. He won the 2008 World Fantasy Award for his novel Ysabel and the International Goliardos Prize, and is a two-time winner of the Aurora Award. His works have been translated into more than twenty languages and have appeared on bestseller lists around the world.

For more info, visit www.guygavrielkay.ca

Read Guy's blog post: Delivering the tools to drive change

February 2012 Featured Author: Katherine Govier

Katherine Govier is a 9 times novelist who has been President of PEN Canada and continues to work with refugee and immigrant writers.

For more info, visit www.govier.com

Read her blog post: The Shoe Project by Katherine Govier