How is Northern Schemers, an interview book with Canadian mystery writers, progressing?
Ah, Northern Schemers… Well, all was going well with that until Chapters pulled the rug out from under Quarry Press and every other publisher in Canada. I’ve interviewed about 10 authors—roughly half the book—but with the returns from Chapters cutting into every publisher’s bottom line, the project has been put on hold for the time being. I could shop it around elsewhere but it would be a hard sell because every Canadian press is in the same boat and another publisher wouldn’t have Northern Dreamers to piggyback the title onto, so for now I’ll hope that the Indigo buyout turns things around and I can get back to interviewing mystery writers by the summer or fall of 2001. If Writing Erotica is a follow-up to Writing Horror, what will be the follow-up to Erotica? I had always wanted to do a book on Writing Short Stories, and that was what I first approached Self-Counsel Press to do. They said no to that, but asked me if I would be interested in doing Writing Horror. I said yes, but bef
