by PDR-Kellie | Apr 24, 2014 | Canada Reads, Just For Fun, Mixed Tape, Music, Swarm, Writing Life
Despite the fact that my mother studied to be an opera singer in the 1960s, I’m not a very musical person. I mean, I make up silly songs about everything, especially our growing collection of animals, but I don’t listen to a lot of music. I write in...
by PDR-Kellie | Nov 3, 2013 | Canada Reads, Manitoba, Swarm, The Pas
It turns out I’m the only writer in Manitoba who made it onto the Top 40 for Canada Reads, so yesterday I chatted with Terry MacLeod on the CBC Manitoba Morning Show about Swarm. Here’s the interview: They also asked me to write an article about my...
by PDR-Kellie | Oct 27, 2013 | Canada Reads, Issues, News, Swarm
Swarm is set during times of peak oil. Well, post peak oil, actually. Deeply post peak oil. Very simply, peak oil is the theory that there is a peak at which we’ve tapped all the easily available oil reserves in the world. After that, petroleum becomes harder to find...
by PDR-Kellie | Oct 15, 2013 | Issues, Ontario, Swarm
Over the course of my Ontario book tour, I’ve had lots of people ask me what inspired me to write Swarm. One part of that answer is simply that I wanted to talk about the eventual disintegration of an economic system that’s come to rely on a cheap and...
