Thank you TOPIC Magazine, for a crackerjack little review of my book
Seems that the first few times you see your name in print, you are sort of excited, but after some years in the trade, it becomes more or less old hat.
Not necessarily so with reviews or news items about your work.
Especialy when no one has reviewed your work for years.
...So I sent a novel or two to my old employer of a generation ago, TOPIC Magazine.
Maybe there was a vestige of some old clout there.
Omigod, there was.
I simply must thank Tracy Kibble for doing, what I think is a bang-up short review and news story on my poor reissued novel, The Fire in Bradford...And done by a Bradford paper!
Thanks, Tracy.
posted by ivan at 2:59 AM
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That's very good. I'm glad to hear it. Congrats man. I just had my writing compared to human excrement! I was thrilled. :)
Just great, Ivan! Proud and happy for you...D
Charles,
Join the club. One reader on a Canadian Conservative site,ChuckerCanuck said my novel sucked canal water.
Thanks so much, Donnetta.
Now you can assume your LL Cool J stance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vimZj8HW0Kg
Durn.
I thought I'd just fixed the computer, allowing easy access to my comment space.
Looks like I was wrong.
I can't get in to commentg again, and, presumably, neither can anybody else.
Jesus, I hate this message:
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Nice to see your work getting the attention it's been due.
Hopefully this will lead to a decent pay check!
If I find a way up to the Toronto Area (I have friends there, moved from the states a few years ago), what are the chances we can kill a bottle of svedka and compare notes on trashed smokey apartments?
Eric,
Of all my commentors, I would say you are just about the brightest thing around.
Should you come to the Toronto area (Newmarket is perched atop Toronto), I would be delighted to join you along with Prince Igor, who usually comes in a glass overcoat...Maybe we can even google Gogol, who also had an overcoat. :)
I am amazed at your obvious versatility and would probably be humbled if we should have time to practice lead guitar.
I suspect you well know the Holy Bble according to Fender, and you could join me in shared emotions as we try to imitate the actions of late and great Robert Johnston or somebody.
There seems to be a cerrtain affinity. We both used to be (are?) musicians besides trying to add our names to the world's list of scribblers.
LIke a line out of Anne of Green Gables, "kindred spirits."
I am, of course, a little long in the tooth, people are saying, "How come you ain't dead yet?"
When you come I hope you won't find me during an episode of senility when I might demonstrate my adeptness by mumbling and picking my nose.
Good to hear from you, man, and by all means come when you can. I'll drop everything and will come to meet you, probably at Union Station, Toronto, that glorious hub of just about everything.
Yes, they try to burn down us old warlocks...Last time I checked, I swear that on my charred front door, there was, in Roman capitals,, something like "This fire was brought to you by courtesy of your local Cosa Nostra." :)
Take care.
Chris,
It's a rap.
Hi folks,
Before my novel came out my brother and I shot a bunch of video for promotional purposes, much of which is on youtube. I've only just managed to upload the videos from that session of me reading from the book itself. In case you're interested, these are now available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RNpJ1a6ws0&feature=channel_video_title, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib2zbx7h0z8&feature=channel_video_title and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLC_VNAD3u8&feature=channel_video_title.
Happy viewing,
Chris
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Chris Benjamin is a freelance journalist and fiction writer. His critically acclaimed first novel, Drive-by Saviours, was selected for the Canada Reads 2011 longlist. His first book of nonfiction, Atlantic Canada's Sustainability Innovators, will be published by Nimbus in Fall 2011. He is the Sustainable City Columnist for The Coast (www.thecoast.ca). In 2006/2007 he worked as a journalist in Ghana. He was a finalist for the 2010 Fusion Go Sustainability Award and shared an honourable mention in the 2009 National Magazine Awards. Chris has written opinion, fiction and features for The Globe and Mail, Chronicle Herald, VoicePrint Canada, This Magazine, Now Magazine, Canadian Dimension, Descant, Third Person Press, Nashwaak Review, Pottersfield Press, Rattling Books, The Society, University of Waterloo Press, Z Magazine, Briarpatch Magazine, Coastlands, Progress Magazine, Rural Delivery and many others.
www.chrisbenjaminwriting.com
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Thanks for that, Ivan.
Drive-by Saviours, has been longlisted for a ReLit Award (“The country’s pre-eminent literary prize recognizing independent presses” according to the Globe and Mail): http://lnkd.in/-bc3e5
Chris Benjamin's Drive-by Saviours, has been longlisted for a ReLit Award (“The country’s pre-eminent literary prize recognizing independent presses” according to the Globe and Mail): http://lnkd.in/-bc3e5
Ivan: Just seeing if I can leave a comment. Maybe this will work. D
Donnetta,
It worked. Thankee.
Jaysus, I'm turning into a systems analyst. Maybe my writer friend from Toronto was half-right when he said I'd turned into a geek. :)
Fix it, fix it, was my compulsion.
...And Mona Rahman, from India, just emailed me complaing that she can't get into my comment space...I think I'm going to kill myself!
YYYAAAAYYY! I am here finally!!! :D
Why didn't we think of this before!?!
Hooray, Mona.
Welcome back.
...It's because my excellent son indicated what may have gone wrong...My techie had been baffled.
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