News & Reviews

Excerpt

For a downloadable excerpt from the book, click here.

In the News

• NEW “Writers reading about sex bring out a crowd to festival event,” Ottawa Citizen, April 30, 2012. Read it here.

• NEW Man & Other Natural Disasters added to featured title in Canada’s History Magazine. Check it out here.

• NEW “Local Author Delves into Terrorism in Canada’s Past”, Forever Young Newspaper, April 2012 edition. Check it out here.

• Nerys on Daybreak Alberta with Russel Bo, CBC Radio 1, March 17th. Listen live here.

• “City’s Wild West Plays in Novel”, Calgary Herald, March 13, 2012. Read it here.

• “Parry, Ponga & Pohutukawa” on Canadian Writer’s Abroad. Click here to read

• “First Novel Hard Work”, Taupo Times, January 31, 2012, Taupo New Zealand. Download PDF here: Taupo Times – Digital Edition

• “Three Women/Three Books: Three Takes on Taboos in Writing”, The OSCAR, Jan 2012. Download the proof PDF here: 3 Women Dec 9 page 1 3 Women Dec 9 page 2

• Nerys featured in various Metroland papers in article, “Novelist Debut Novel Nominated for two awards” in December 2011. Download PDF here: December 8 profile

• Shen Yun Weaves Tales for Ottawa Writer, Epoch Times,  December 19th.  Read the on-line version here.

• Nerys appears in Shen Yun video on New Tang Dynasty Television. See the clip here (Chinese) and here (English)

• Check out sample of Three Women/Three Books interview with Susan on CKCU’s Studio 1402 Friday, December 16th, 2011.  See video here.

• Three Women/Three Books featured in EMC “Authors Find Three Heads Better than One” December15, 2011. See the article on-line here.

• Man & Other Natural Disasters featured in Your Ottawa Region and Kanata Courier-Standard in the article ”Debut Novel Nominated for Awards” December 9, 2011.  Read the article here.

• Nerys mentioned as one of Ottawa’s “smart, determined and vibrant 30-somethings, who are not only following their dreams, but doing it well” in the Ottawa Citizen‘s Exhuberant Entrepeneur article on December 3, 2011. Read more about Ottawa’s women entrepeneurs here.

• See a short clip of Nerys’ interview on Daytime, where she talks about what it was like writing Simon here: Nerys on Daytime

• Read Nerys’ Interview with the Winnipeg Review on The Future of Books.

• Listen to Nerys’ Sept. 16th interview on CKCU here:    Interview with Susan Johnston

Reviews

Excerpts of reviews are available on About the Book page.  Full reviews can be accessed using the links below.

• Aaron at Opinionless gave Man & Other Natural Disasters 4.5 stars on March 8, 2012. Read the review here.

• CBC “All Points West” Book Club recommends Man & Other Natural Disasters for last minute X-mas picks, December 19th, 2012. See the full list here.

• Kerry Clare, editor of Canadian Bookshelf and top blog, Pickle Me This, reviewed Man & Other Natural Disasters January 8, 2012. Read the full review here.

• Katherine Lyall-Watson, playwright and niece of Lyall Watson (author of Supernature and inspiration for Simon’s character), shares her review on Man & Other Natural Disasters here.

• Man  & Other Natural Disasters listed in Advent Book Blog December 18th, 2011. Read Rhonda Douglas’ review here.

• Koozma Tarasoff, Doukhbor expert, reviews Man & Other Natural Disasters on December 12, 2011. ”A Troubled Personality Revealed” can be read here

• Read Man & Other Natural Disasters book review in Winnipeg Free Press, December 4, 2011, here.

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