Love From Planet Wine Cooler

1. What type of books do you write?
When I did my MFA at the University of British Columbia in the mid-1990s, all program participants were required to write in three genres to ensure we could make a living as writers. It's a demand that has served me well. My works ranges from technology journalism to creative nonfiction and from experimental fiction to chick lit.

2. What is the latest book you have written?
Love From Planet Wine Cooler is a collection of inter-rated short stories and it's definitely chick lit for the reader with literary tastes.
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Finnegan and His Sisters, the collection I am working on now, has more of a YA appeal, I think. I'm not finished with the book yet, but a few of the Finnegan stories have been published. One is currently up as part of the America's Next Author Social Writing Contest. If your readers leave a comment, they'll be able to influence how the rest of the book takes shape.

3. When did you start writing?
Writing has always been a big part of my life, but I started writing for publication when I was in third year university and was part of a close-knit seminar group. Having that supportive environment around a shared passion was and is hugely important to me.

4. Why did you start writing?
When I was 15, my father died of Leukemia. Then, my grandfather died of cancer. Then, I had cancer at 19. These were three very tragic events that changed me forever and, I felt, isolated me from my peers. Writing became my way of explaining, of re-joining the human race after being isolated by circumstances.

5. Who are your influences?
Margaret Atwood is the Godmother of Canadian literature and all Canadian writers. With her come Margaret Laurence, Alice Munroe, Richard Wright, Thompson Highway and Austin Clarke.

6. What can we expect from you in the near future?
Dry Stories, a collection of short stories about comforting someone get over addiction and recovery will be ready in 2013.
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