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Book Covers and Illustrations
The image above is the original graphic (AI-generated) I used for the cover of The Burin Girl. My talented niece Megan went to work on it and generated a wonderful array of improvements. Below is my favourite!! Close-up, with soft edges. Johanna’s youth is touchingly evident. Continue reading
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The Burin Girl
Published at last! It’s available on Amazon.ca as both an ebook and a paperback and is available on Kobo as an ebook. A word to the wise for all you self-publishers out there: the Kindle self-publishing app is helpful and can give your product a polished look. I had an impossible time of it getting… Continue reading
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What’s Going on with The Burin Girl?
I’ve gotten obsessed lately with writing competitions and I’ll tell you why: first of all, it’s a way to make money if you win, and a way to get literary people to read your work. Most competitions have an entry fee, which makes sense, because all those entries need readers and readers should be compensated… Continue reading
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Still in progress!
It looks like The Burin Girl won’t make an appearance this summer after all. However, she is still growing and she’s changing by the day. She should be mature enough and maybe even polished enough to make her debut by Fall’s end. Just in Time for Christmas! If I were any kind of marketer at… Continue reading
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What’s Next?
What follows is a little snippet from a work in progress. It’s the story of Johanna, a girl from the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland, who finds herself married, at 17, to a widowed fisherman with 5 children. It’s by turns hilarious and tragic, as it chronicles life in the early twentieth century all the way… Continue reading
Canadian Stories by Kathy McWilliam 