An update of the interviews featured on the Open Book: Toronto website this week.
Camille Martin, a visual artist and poet talks to Open Book about her upcoming collection Looms, the recurring themes in her writing and how her work as a visual artist influences her writing. When describing her poems she told Open Book that "In a nutshell, I’d say that my poetry questions habits of thought." Read the full interview here.
Writer, publisher and leading expert on the Titanic, Hugh Brewster talks to Open Book about his newest young adult novel Deadly Voyage (Scholastic Canada), his fascination with the story of the Titanic and how working as a publisher has impacted his writing process. Brewster remarks on the need for authenticity in Historical Fiction, "“Did this really happen?’ is a question readers, particularly boys, often ask, and I like to be able to tell them that the novel gives an authentic depiction of this historic event." Read the full interview here.
Author Ellen Schwartz speaks with Open Book about her culinary mystery for young readers The Teaspoon Detectives: The Case of the Missing Deed (Tundra Books), the character in the book with whom she most identifies and the book she read as a child that has stayed with her into adulthood. She confesses that the most challenging part of writing this book was "figuring out how the recipes would lead to clues, which would then help the cousins figure out the hiding place of the deed." Read the full interview here.
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