Still, it took almost two decades between first trying to get published and Orca Book Publishers seeing potential in a pitch for Cub. I made some great friends who helped me, Susan Juby and Brooke Carter among them who are guardian writer angels. I went off to university and was lucky enough to study creative writing in the hopes of improving, but publishing didn’t come quickly. I have a drawer of real paper rejections to show for it. I first tried to get published at seventeen when people still had to submit queries via snail mail with a self-addressed-stamped envelope and wait months for their rejections. It’s very The Godfather so once you’re in, you’re in for life. Anyone who has worked with family knows, you can quit a job but you can’t quit your family. What work has claimed you outside of your relatively recent writing career, how long did it take to land your first novel, and how committed are you to the writing path these days?Ī: I was hiding away in the family business. Q: You’ve written two and a half books and I want to know where you’ve been all our lives.
He spends a lot of time baking in his Toronto kitchen with his nephew, three dogs (two big labs and one tiny morkie) and a grey parrot with a red tail. He has a specialisation in English Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing. Paul is the author of Cub, the brand new The Player, and coauthor with Eric Walters of On the Line coming in March 2022.
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