Author Archives: Pat Bowne

I bought two artworks at the Lakefront Festival of the Arts this year, and only after getting them home did I realize that both of them appealed to me because they looked as if they came out of books. The … Continue reading →

The quote is from “Being in Being: the collected works of a master Haida mythteller, Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighaway,” translated by Robert Bringhurst. The stories were transcribed phonetically in 1900, in what were then called the Queen Charlotte Islands … Continue reading →

Fantasy writers often pay lip service to the difficulties readers can encounter when entering a new mythology (our own), but it’s easy to forget just how opaque an unfamiliar genre can be. In my own work, I count on familiarity … Continue reading →

I came home from church and sat down to catch up on twitter.  And what did I see but something from @jafurtado – a link to this Globe and Mail article about how Harlequin romance was revolutionizing the epublishing market. … Continue reading →

This book struck me as old-fashioned, and I mean that an an unambiguous compliment. I might have picked it off my father’s bookshelf forty years ago, when I was living at home and enjoyed books set in imperial China. My … Continue reading →

Arthur Rackham is one of my all-time favorite illustrators, so I was excited to see Stacy Ericson’s iphone images manipulated to look like Rackham paintings. They made me wonder about illustration.  Illustration in adult fantasy has been sparse and (to … Continue reading →