My gratitude goes to sportswriter Rick Assad for this extremely generous review/interview of my novel, UNDERCARD, for the boxing website The Sweet Science. This is the first review of UNDERCARD by a sportswriter, and for a boxing outlet. I do think of the book as a blend of a socially conscious literary novel, a high-octane thriller, and a […]
Cafe New Canadians, a show on New Canadians TV, interviewed four authors from the Immigrant Writers Association‘s second anthology, GROW TOGETHER in late January. Host Shruti Dargan spoke to Gabriela Casineanu, Soulsne (Sneha Gaikwad), Emanuel Petrescu, and myself about our writing, the Immigrant Writers Association, and the anthology. It was an enjoyable discussion, which, among other […]
Below is my Goodreads review of GROW TOGETHER, an anthology I was a part of, published by the Immigrant Writers Association. To see the Goodreads page for GROW TOGETHER (with my review written there), please click here. As one of the co-authors, I’m obviously biased, but I love this book. It is a wonderful collection […]
I was so pleased to be a part of the Immigrant Writers Association’s second anthology, GROW TOGETHER, a collection of stories, both fiction and non, by immigrants living in Canada. Each chapter is written by a different member of the Immigrant Writers Association (IWA), an organization that provides resources, opportunities, and community to first- and […]
I was so happy to be invited by Christie and Cathi at the Game of Books podcast to participate in a virtual book club with them, featuring my novel, Undercard. But I was even happier when the day arrived, and I shared such a funny, lively, and interesting conversation with Cathi and Christie, and their […]
“Don’t disrupt the flow of money”: this review of Undercard by Dennis Rizzo for The Internet Review of Books really focused on the substance of the novel, on what it was trying to discuss about power structures in today’s society. I’m very grateful for this review. I feel it ‘got’ the book in a way other reviews […]
Tom Sumner is an extremely friendly and generous interviewer, and I greatly enjoyed talking with him in this interview. He seemed to enjoy speaking to me too, as he kept asking me to stick around for the better part of an hour. What ensued was a great conversation in which I could discuss with him […]
This written interview with fellow crime writer Michael Bradley was a great opportunity to share on how immigrating as a child helped shape my writing from a young age, how to maintain the intense rhythm of a 24-hour story, how I plotted extensively to execute the twists of Undercard, and the one thing I would’ve […]
The interview below was a lot of fun with a really warm atmosphere created by the host, Nancy Coombs, of KRSN AM1490. What I liked in this interview is that Nancy gave a lot of her own impressions of Undercard, what she took away from it and how she perceived the central characters; so for […]
This interview was a very interesting conversation with host Larry Matthews on Impact Radio USA. The program is an hour long but my section begins at 33:17 and ends at 53:39. We discuss why boxing is such fertile ground for storytelling and why I chose to feature it in my novel Undercard, among many other things […]