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I love discovering new literary voices and my book reviewing gigs allow me to be so lucky. Here's my review of Jeanette Lynes' debut novel (she's already a successful poet) from the weekend Globe. I highly recommend the book, it's a lively and delightful read about four women working in an airplane factory during WWII.

These Women Take Flight

I've made no secret of the fact that I, like many of my journalism colleauges, am having a hard time finding work and getting story assignments. It's tough out there.

So, what to do with the free time in between applying for tv jobs and sending out story pitches to newspapers and magazines?

What else? Start a new blog.

Bound to Write is my new literary blog, a venue for book news, reviews, author profiles, Q & As and all things to do with books and reading. Basically it's a place for me to talk about the creative art I love the most, Literature. And help promote wonderful writers - well established and brand new.

I'm just getting started and I hope you'll join me there.

Very happy to hear this today, and so well deserved: Nino Ricci's fantastic novel, Origin of Species has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

I reviewed it for the Ottawa Citizen, though it is unfortunately not online. But here's a blurb the publisher picked that I'm presuming will be on the paperback jacket when it's released:

“An entertaining and emotionally rewarding read, this book will transport Nino Ricci to further heights of literary stardom and could well overtake his first, Lives of the Saints, as his signature work — much as the original Origin of Species did to the career and life of Charles Darwin.”
— Ottawa Citizen