My children have stolen my dreams in a very literal sense. I've lost months in the minutes and hours that Sabine and Zoey have needed me at night, their thin, butterfly-beating hearts pushed against me in the darkness.
From Alexi Zentner
Growing up in Waterloo, the Governor General's Award wasn't something I even thought to wish for.
To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.
Ezekiel Boone's books, starting with 'The Hatching' series, are meant to be big, sprawling, smart, entertaining books that are fun above all else; the literary novels written under my real name, Alexi Zentner, are certainly a little more quiet.
I'm absolutely terrified of spiders.
I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?
One of my oldest friends has a cottage on Smoke Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park, and it's one of my favorite places in the world.
I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.
There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.
I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'
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