Off the Record

By Sue Welfare

Book Overview

Editor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record, he encourages six to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how they became writers instead of radio announcers or cabinet makers. The essays collected here, each accompanied by a short story, offer fascinating insight into the relationships between writers, their editors, and their fiction.

Off the Record brings together work by six noted Canadian writers, among them the winners of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Butler Book Prize, and the Marian Engel Award: Caroline Adderson, Kristyn Dunnion, Cynthia Flood, Shaena Lambert, Elise Levine, and Kathy Page. Their essays are candid, moving, and surprisingly relatable-providing plenty of inspiration for those among us who want to write.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771965452
• ISBN13: 9781771965453
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Biblioasis
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

An entertaining book with a few romantic twists and turns!

I really enjoyed this book because of the twists that were involved due to the main character, Liz Chapman's involvement and it takes place in England. We get to see how she greatly impacts a few peoples lives without her even knowing it! She's recently divorced and trying to get back into the workplace as a journalist, when she accidentally interviews the wrong man. The wrong man, Nick Hastings, is smitten with Liz and doesn't have the heart to tell her she's interviewing the wrong person. Nick's white lie turns Liz's world upside down when her story becomes a huge success. The actual person she was to interview, a drunken artist, gets a jump start on his own career thanks to Liz, without even meeting her. Will Nick ever be able to be honest, clear up the confusion and allow love to happen for he and Liz? Read the book and find out!