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EP 396 - Waubgeshig Rice on Community, Publishing, and The Creative Journey
- 2025/01/10
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Mark interviews Waubgeshig Rice, an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation, and the author of four books, most notably the bestselling novels Moon of the Crusted Snow and Moon of the Turning Leaves. Prior to the interview, Mark shares comments, a personal update and word about this episode's sponsor. This episode is sponsored by Superstars Writing Seminars: Teaching you the business of being a writer which takes place Feb 6 through 9, 2025 in Colorado Springs, CO. Use code: MARK1592 to get $100 off your registration. In their conversation Mark and Waubgeshig talk about: Waub's interest in high school with English classes but still feeling like there was no strong connection and that not many of the books and stories being taught in Ontario in the 1990s were all that relatableBeing shown books by indigenous authors via his Auntie that weren't being studied in school -- books by authors such as Richard Wagamese, Lee Maracle, Louise Erdrich -- and how that blew his world wide open and included thoughts such as maybe he could do that himself some dayThe Grade 12 Writing Course taught by Tom Bennett at Parry Sound High School that helped Waubgeshig in shaping storiesBeing side-tracked from creative writing by studying and beginning a career in journalismThe benefit of getting to know writers and artists in the Toronto area in the early 2000sApplying for his first writing grant from Canada Council for the Arts in 2004Waub's first book, Midnight Sweat Lodge, a connected short story collectionHow things really changed when Waubgeshig's Moon of the Crusted Snow first came out in 2018Leaving full time journalism employment at CBC to become a full-time writer in 2020The Northeast Blackout of 2003 and how his experiences being back home at Wasauksing First Nation near Parry Sound when it was all going down is what inspired Waubgeshig in writing Moon of the Crusted SnowComing to the realization that home was the best place to be if this were actually a world-ending electricity blackoutThe stereotypes and mythologies about what life on a reservation is, and how, during that dark moment, it was a reminder of the resources and the beauty that place could actually beExpressing the heartfelt spirit of community that has withstood a lot of violence historically, and how that helps a group of people survive this latest major crisisDeciding to set the story in a location that a little further removed from Southern Ontario than where Waubgeshig actually grew upWaub's approach in writing the sequel and wanting it to take place several years after the events in the first novel and how that came to happenHow the second novel explores the way the people of the community are able to live more autonomously on the land as Anishinaabe peopleThe interesting publishing path that Waubgeshig's first novel took in landing at ECW PressWorking with acquiring editor Susan Renouf and how great an experience that was and the wonderful suggestions she made to improve the raw manuscriptThe speculative fiction elements of a post-apocalyptic novel and Waub feeling so accepted in the SF/F communityHow the success of Moon of the Crusted Snow led Waub to getting agent representation by Denise BukowskiThe path that led to Penguin Random House offering the contract for the sequel Moon of the Turning LeavesThe new project that Waub is working on nowAdvice that Waub would offer to other writersAnd more... After the interview Mark reflects on several different things he was thinking about during and after the conversation. Links of Interest: Waubgeshig Rice Website FacebookInstagramTwitterBluesky Superstars Writing SeminarsEP 389 - "Now You've Gone" with Cathy Rankin and Ken K. MaryBuy Mark a CoffeePatreon for Stark Reflections How to Access Patreon RSS Feeds Mark's YouTube channelMark's Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and LibrariesThe Relaxed Author Buy eBook DirectBuy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for AuthorsAn Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & BookstoresWide for the WinMark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story)A Canadian Werewolf in New YorkStowe Away (Novella)Fear and Longing in Los AngelesFright Nights, Big CityLover's MoonHex and the CityOnly Monsters in the Building The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and AutomobilesYippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die HardMerry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0