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Welcome to Stories from the Pink House
A new literary newsletter on Substack. To subscribe, please click here. Stories from the Pink House with Rina Barone. A newsletter about...
Rina Barone
Aug 18, 20242 min read
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A Writer Profile: Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Gail Anderson-Dargatz's first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s...
Rina Barone
Feb 16, 20247 min read
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A Writer Profile: David Bergen
David Bergen is the author of numerous acclaimed novels and short-story collections, including The Time In Between, winner of the...
Rina Barone
Feb 16, 20244 min read
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A Writer Profile: Dr. Norma Dunning
Dr. Norma Dunning is an Inuk writer as well as a scholar, researcher, professor and grandmother. Her short story collection Tainna: The...
Rina Barone
Oct 26, 20224 min read
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A Writer Profile: Ed O’Loughlin
ED O’LOUGHLIN is an Irish-Canadian author and journalist. He is the author of four novels, including the tech-thriller and spy novel This...
Rina Barone
Jun 14, 20224 min read
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Behind the Scenes: Book Designer, Kelly Hill
"I want the reader to judge a book by its cover! I’m trying to catch their attention in a sea of book covers, whether in store or online,...
Rina Barone
Oct 9, 20215 min read
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A Writer Profile: Angélique Lalonde
As of this writing, Angélique Lalonde's first collection of stories, Glorious Frazzled Beings, has been shortlisted for the Scotiabank...
Rina Barone
Oct 6, 20217 min read
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Making a difference, one book at a time
by Nancy Falconer AUTHOR PROFILE: GENEVIEVE GRAHAM Photograph by Nicola Davison, Snickerdoodle Photography Graduating university with a...
Nancy Falconer
Sep 13, 20215 min read
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Behind The Scenes: Book Cover Designer, Alan Jones
"It would be nice to think there are pieces of my work out there that people have kept on their shelves at home just because they like...
Rina Barone
Sep 13, 20217 min read
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First Book: Interview with Michael LaPointe
Photo Credit: Alex Warrender First Book: The Creep Published: June 1, 2021 This is your first book - why did you need to write this...
Rina Barone
Aug 11, 20214 min read
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A Writer Profile: Elisabeth de Mariaffi
Born and raised in Toronto, Canadian author Elisabeth de Mariaffi now makes her home in St. John's, Newfoundland. She holds an MFA in...
Rina Barone
Jul 30, 20216 min read
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Reading What I Wrote as a Teenager by Emily Austin
I recently remembered the password to an old email address I made when I was a teenager. I will not tell you that password in case I have...
Emily Austin
Jul 12, 20213 min read
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A Writer Profile: Kelly Rimmer
Bestselling author Kelly Rimmer recently released a new work of fiction, The Warsaw Orphan, inspired by the real-life heroine who saved...
Rina Barone
Jul 5, 20215 min read
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First Book: Interview with Cedar Bowers
Photo Credit: Michael Christie First Book: Astra Published: June 1, 2021 How did you become a writer? That’s an interesting question, and...
Rina Barone
Jun 17, 20215 min read
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A Literary Roundup
How is it that we find ourselves in June? We are fast approaching the halfway mark of 2021, yet I can count the books I've read on one...
Rina Barone
Jun 15, 20213 min read
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A Writer Profile: Harold R. Johnson
Harold R. Johnson is the author of several fiction and nonfiction books, and according to his Twitter account, he is also: a trapper,...
Rina Barone
Jun 4, 20215 min read
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A Writer Profile: Bianca Marais
Where writers write. This thought has always fascinated me. As intrigued I am by the written word, I find myself thinking about the...
Rina Barone
May 11, 20219 min read
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A Literary Round-Up...
Here's a new edition of Literary Links for your perusal. I've been collecting all these stories to share with you for what seems like...
Rina Barone
Apr 6, 20213 min read
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A Reader Profile: Gertrude King
Edited by Rina Barone. Photography by Bryan Davies. I first met Gertrude like I meet a lot of people in Creemore. She walked into the...
Rina Barone
Mar 9, 20217 min read
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Creemore Art Challenge
It was a lot of fun to create this past week’s 8th Creemore Art Challenge for Purple Hills Arts & Heritage Society: A Creative...
Rina Barone
Feb 25, 20213 min read
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