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Blog postRegister on Eventbrite On June 25, 2019, I submitted my first proposal to to turn one of my novels into a stage play. I deliberately picked the most challenging to stage: TERMINALLY ILL, where Elvis the Escape King is chained and nailed into a coffin and lowered into the St. Lawrence River.
In December, Bronwyn Steinberg, TACTICS Artistic Director and Series Curator, accepted Terminally Ill as a workshop so we could figure out how on earth to stage Elvis.
We were slated to op -
Blog postAs I introduce Scorpion Scheme to the world, I’m interviewing some author and reader friends. Today we meet Dr. Frank Warsh, author of The Flame Broiled Doctor and Hippocrates: The Art and the Oath.
Melissa Yi: You and I have both written fiction inspired by ancient history. What drew you to the Greeks?
Frank Warsh: I’ve always been fascinated by Ancient Greece going back to grade school. Its literature, art, and even political theory is still relevant today. We hold the Olympic -
Blog postScorpion Scheme is here! To celebrate, I’m starting a series on KamikaSze writers and readers–basically, people to whom my heroine, Hope Sze, would give the thumbs up.
First up, please welcome R.H. Nix. I met her in real life because we’re close friends with the same person, but we’re both enthusiastic book nerds who got together to watch Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir on their final skating tour.
You can see we’re kindred spirits because she’s the only other person I know who re -
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Blog postYes. ‘Tis my baby, Code Blues. With the orange Amazon bestseller bar. Check me out! #http://(http://amzn.to/2q5057f)1 in Medical Thrillers on Amazon.ca! You know, me hanging out with Dean Koontz, James Patterson, and Michael Crichton. Also me, hanging out with Emma Donoghue, Samuel Shem’s The House of God, and (in another shot) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. But this one captures me with Naughty Neuro and Gorgeous Gyno. Can’t resist them! And #1 on Kobo’s Hard-Boiled list! Hoora
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Blog postIn 2018, British author and editor Bridget Lawless founded a prize for excellence in thrillers that do not portray violence against women.
In 2020, I have been longlisted for the Staunch Prize for short fiction for my story, “My Two-Legs.”
The heroine of my story is a golden retriever named Star who’s locked in a car when her owner (her “two-legs”) disappears. I enjoyed the challenge of a protagonist who couldn’t talk and who has no opposable thumbs, trying to escape a car, fi -
Blog postIntroducing…S!
My latest Hope Sze thriller, Graveyard Shift, was inspired by a local police officer who stopped a massive medication theft. But I needed both his and the police department’s permission to talk about that, and I didn’t know the officer’s last name.
Then this happened: “Oh, it’s Dr. Yuan-Innes!”
I ran into Constable Michael Ménard, who recognized me and said, “You’re one of our favourite doctors.”
Gosh. I shook his hand, thanked him for making my day ( -
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Blog postMelissa Yi: Welcome, Joanne. You fell in love with cozy mysteries during chemotherapy. Do you mind telling that story? Joanne Guidoccio: On the cusp of my fiftieth birthday, I was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer and forced to take a leave of absence. While undergoing chemotherapy, I searched for light and entertaining novels that would provide a healthy diversion. I was grateful for the bags of books dropped off by friends but couldn’t get into any of the storylines. I found the
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Blog postJudy Penz Sheluk and I first met at the Ontario Library Association’s annual conference, where were both part of a presentation by author members of Crime Writers of Canada. She introduced herself to me and invited me on her blog, so of course I fell for her immediately. But since I’m not half as organized, it’s taken me this long for me to land her on my own blog. Read all the way through for a surprise at the end!
Q: One of your heroines, Callie Barnstable, spends a lot of time orga -
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Blog postOn Genre, Flirty Canadians, and Movie Deals
Melissa Yi: I have to ask you what inspired you to write such an unusual debut novel. For those of you who haven’t yet devoured PETRA’S GHOST, an Irish expatriate named Daniel gathers his wife’s ashes and intends to spread them as he walks the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage through Spain. He follows in the same footsteps of a woman who disappeared while walking the Camino. The missing woman and his wife’s death weigh on Daniel even as he t< -
Blog postHey, what’s the Emerging Creators Unit?
I was absolutely delighted to discover this program where, in order to nurture new writers and create fresh theatre, six artists would be chosen to work with dramaturg Catherine Ballachey and assistant dramaturg, Matt Hertendy.
A dramaturg reads and analyses your script to help you present it most effectively as a play, which is a tremendous help, especially to someone like me who is used to the page. Some people describe dramaturgs as a -
Blog post“The world has gone topsy-turvy,” says Skeleton Lee.
One of my most popular books, The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World, has been transformed into an Ottawa Fringe play. How and why? I’ve been a terrible blogger. But I’m jumping back on the wagon, not to tell you about my newest novel, Death Flight (that’ll come in a bunch of catch-up posts), but because I’m going to be in the 2019 Ottawa Fringe!
That’s right. I’m going to write, direct, act, sing, and dance on stage, riskin -
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Blog postAre you a femme fatale?
Would you date one?
Could you outwit one?
Will you die from one?
When I think of a femme fatale, I think of an alluring yet dangerous female. Like a black widow spider, only sexier.
I read an anthology of the century’s best mystery stories, and I was struck by the portrayal of women. Most of the stories had been written by men, and an awful lot of the protagonists were males drawn to that mysterious woman who might be the death o -
Blog post1. Do you like money?
2. Do you love to read? Like, all the time? At the beach, or in the bath, even?
3. Do you like my crime-fighting doctor, Hope Sze?
Well, now you can scoop up $5000 and read about Hope under the Atlantic Ocean, if you want to, through the generosity and creative engineering of Kobo!
This is my Cinderella moment, so bear with me. I am so excited about this.
You could win five thousand dollars and a Kobo with Hope Sze, -
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Blog postDo you remember that scene from Trading Places, where Eddie Murphy looks absolutely delighted and says, “We are moving! We are moving!”
A moving stallion, courtesy of http://venomxbaby.deviantart.com
No? Here’s the scene, and here’s a longer clip with an ad and poorer quality but that makes it even funnier.
All that to say, I’ve headed off into the Wild West and am now hosting my own website through http://melissayuaninnes.com and http://melissayuaninnes.net.
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Blog postOoh! Have you ever wanted to go to assassin school for your birthday?
Me neither. Luckily, Octavia (“V”) Ling is crazy enough to do it for you.
When Octavia “V” Ling spots the ad for The Italian School for Assassins, she figures that it sounds like a crazy workout, better than pole dancing, and exactly the kind of nuttiness she craves for a birthday that ends in a zero.
Except, when V lands in Florence, the other assassin students seem…awfully serious about this whole ex -
Blog postShri Yoga hosted a great seminar by Todd Norian last October, and I’d always wanted to go back. Mona, one of the owners, made several adjustments on me that I liked, even though they made me self-conscious (what? I can’t even do plank pose right?). So I thought I’d go back for my extended birthday celebration. (Note: this post written in September and not posted until now because…why blog in real time when you can blog two months later? Regardless, as my friend Amanda put it, it’s my yea
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Blog postI know. That’s a terrible yoga title. I should be more compassionate, more talking about modifications and opening your body, and less about judging.
And yoga has helped me so much with self-judgement and self-criticism.
“I can’t do wheel, and I don’t care. Check me out rocking my undies.” Photo by Belovodchenko Anton.
But if you want to get the job done, if you’re tired of doing Bridge pose while everyone else la-la-la opens up into full wheel, if you don’t have any i -
Blog postFirst of all, I hate picking favourite stories. I have lots of favourites.
Secondly, if I had to pick a story, really, I’d pick one of my own books, because if I didn’t like my own writing, I wouldn’t bother to do it. But that would come off pretty conceited, and even then, I have trouble choosing. It’s like picking your favourite child—why bother? They’re all terrific in their own way.
Thirdly, like Heraclitus said, you can never step in the same river twice. You can never re -
Blog postWill shoot for milk
I did a WritersFest workshop on writing mysteries. That was the idea, anyway. Actually, most people wanted to talk indie publishing and making money. It wasn’t until I checked my notepad later that I found some mystery craft questions, which I will answer here.
I also randomly picked a winner for the book draw. But because it was a mystery workshop, and I’m a pain the bum, I’ll announce the winner at the end of the post.
Question 1. How do you keep -
Blog post1. New books, just in time for WritersFest!
Terminally Ill, the third Hope Sze medical mystery, will debut February first, 2014, in print and e-book. You can pre-order at Kobo or for Nook, iPad, iPhone, Sony and other formats, which would give you a bazillion supercool points.
In the meantime, feast your eyes on these, which are available right now:
2. The Cornwall Public Library is hosting Writersfest October 20-27th. It’s fun! It’s free! It’s chock-ful -
Blog postWhat I worry about is having a birthday party and nobody comes. It’s like I’m a kid in grade two, sitting by myself at lunch and pretending not to care.
It would be easier for me not to have a party at all.
“Shouldn’t someone else throw you a birthday party?” a friend asked.
Who’s going to do that for me? My misanthropic husband, who thinks hell is other people? No. My two-year-old? I wish. I wanted to have a group birthday party, but one of the people flew to Paris. S -
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I was all excited about teaching Kali yoga x 2 classes on my birthday, but my babysitter had to cancel, so I ended up bringing Anastasia with me.
So, all those pretty plans, my study of Dr. Melissa West’s sequencing, my vision of what we could do together, to celebrate: shot.
Just like Kali.
Just like having a baby.
Just like life.
About five minutes into my class with
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