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The Find

Third Person or First?

Image form the jacket of The Find

Extract from a notebook entry made during the writing of The Find Choices, choices: the writer’s life is full of  them. Current example: do I stick with the third person, limited omniscient point of view which should ideally offer me some flexibility in telling the story, or, since I don’t seem to be actually using [...]

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Genetic Testing

As genetic tests are developed, more and more of us are being offered knowledge about our medical futures. In The Find,  Anna Silowski, an intense,  ambitious  paleontologist at the peak of her career  struggles with that choice, and in the process finds herself inextricably involved in an ‘impossible’  relationship with school-drop out  Scott MacLeod – [...]

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Salt Spring Island Launch of The Find

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The Find, May 10 2010,  at ArtSpring Theatre, Salt Spring Island, BC,  7:30 pm. Kathy Page introduces her latest novel. Refreshments, all welcome, free. Hosted by Salt Spring Books – signed copies available.

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Research, for Heaven’s Sake!

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Research for my novel The Find included visits to clinics, hospitals,  museums,  and paleontological sites.  I love  research, but sometimes I hate it too. Here’s an extract from a notebook I kept during  one of my trips to the Royal Tyrell Museum. Suspended forty thousand feet above the Rockies I absolutely knew that I would [...]

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