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Looking for a literary agent is hard work, harder than writing a book. After reading one informative book on the subject, How to Land (and Keep) a Literary Agent, and a two-day goggle blitz of reading Blogs and articles about the dangers and pit falls and necessity to “do your research” before approaching an agent. Apparently, there are crooked agents that feed off novice writers hoping to publish — I hadn’t thought of that. One thing all the research agrees upon is that I need a ‘Platform’ if I want to find the agent I am looking for, and I hope is looking for me. This is the beginnings of my Platform.
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I was a collaborative play-maker and story-teller in Fringe theatres across Canada in the 80’s and 90’s, I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation (Ordering Chaos, 1998) on the Fringe Theatre in Canada and became a ‘gypsy academic’ in 2005 when the English Dept. at the University of British Columbia hired me to teach. I’ve voyaged around the world three times teaching with the Semester at Sea program, and 900 miles up the Amazon River, I’ve lived and worked in 6 countries, traversed the North American continent by motorcycle, bus and train, I once walked for fifty days across Northern Spain – alone, and now I am on a tiny Caribbean island off the coast of Belize running a funky little guest house and teaching online undergraduate courses in writing and cultural studies for the English Dept. at U.B.C.. The fuel for all my adventures and accomplishments was sparked when they kicked me out of school in the middle of grade nine and branded me a “single-teenage-mom.” The challenges I’ve faced, and the choices I’ve made have taken me down a most interesting path. And now, the time has come “to talk of many things … .”
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