INTRODUCTION Photo of Kendra in Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square neighbourhood: Tatiana Formicheva, 2017 When I sat down with Kendra Guidolin at vegan restaurant in Burlington this past summer to talk about her role as ‘The Girl … Read More
As I’ve just finished typing out the last sweep of chapter titles to be “boxed up” in preparation for the final chapter postings, I thought now would be a good time to share a project update with you, with … Read More
Author’s Note: The following is the original CHAPTER ONE of the novel as edited by Kendra Guidolin. As is stands, this novel is 1500 pages (and I still have some chapters left to write), so it’s in desperate … Read More
Author’s Note: In the following, editor Kendra Guidolin weighs in on a chapter I’m VERY unsure about. That chapter is called ‘Dying Wish’ and it’s Chapter Seventy-Five on the “CHAPTERS” section of the website. A main component of … Read More
It’s February 17th, 2021, and if you’ve read the two chapters which I’ve posted this morning, you’ll know that Detective Gemma Redmond, the Mistwell Police Force’s resident historian, is a reincarnated Ada. My job now, in the rewrite, is … Read More
This week, The Girl on Harlow Street’s editor Kendra Guidolin gave some no-holds-barred answers to a series of direct questions on the novel-in-progress. In keeping with one of the main tenets of this project — to share the novel-writing process … Read More
Having just posted chapter 90, after a two-month hiatus from posting, I thought it’d be a good time to share a project update with you all. I hope everyone had a good holiday season on the coattails of a … Read More
If there’s any post which falls into my personal version of “putting myself out there” with the fear-fighting machine at maximum capacity, it would be this one. It’s one thing to write explicitly. But it’s an entirely different thing … Read More
From the time I began working on this project with Rosemary, I’ve seen a vast breadth of development in her writing, in the story itself, as well as in the characters and their dynamics. The novel, though digestible in … Read More
Author’s Note: Here, we’re continuing on with the modern-day Phil pending chapter series which will be worked into the earlier sections of the novel during the editing and rewriting phase. You’ll see here that I’m continuing to work … Read More