Media Updates

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UNDERCARD is Reviewed in The Sweet Science

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…
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An Interview of GROW TOGETHER authors with Cafe New Canadians

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),…
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The Immigrant Writers Association’s 2nd Anthology: Grow Together

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…
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Game of Books: GOB Club: Undercard

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,…
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A Review to Remember

"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.…
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An Extensive Interview with Tom Sumner of Flint, Michigan Radio

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…
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Author Interview with Michael Bradley

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…

Los Alamos Radio Station has a Great Vibe

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…
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Interview on “Matthews and Friends”

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…