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Dundurn Press, a leading independent Canadian publisher, is hiring a full-time publicist in our Toronto office.  The publicist’s primary responsibilities are to successfully plan and secure publicity for a selected number of titles each publishing season and to develop and maintain strong working relationships with media and authors. The publicist will report to the Publicity Manager.

Duties and responsibilities:

“How much of you is in your Cullen and Cobb characters?”

It’s a question I’m often asked and for a long time my stock answer was not much, if anything at all.

But as I think about it more and more, I’m not so sure. In fact, I’d say there are varying degrees of me in a number of my characters, and the Cullen and Cobb series is no exception.

In day-to-day life I’m fairly unflappable, but when it comes to writing, I’m a worrier, always finding new things to flap about. Last year it was a concern that there’s an element of the unreal in my BC Blues crime series. I felt that to fit on the shelf labelled “Police Procedural,” a novel has to reflect life to a T, with grit, dirt, cruelty, violence, and all the rest, and should never touch on magic.