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"Rusnak does not waste a single word, and she is clear where she wants her story to take her reader."
Zev Good, author of All About the Benjamins
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"honest and provocative"
Margaret Terry, author of Dear Deb
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"Alanna Rusnak is a wordsmith. She is both mistress and master of her craft."
Geraldine Mac Donald, author of Sumac Summer
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"Rusnak manages to write with a naked rawness that brings out the true depths of family and spirituality in a way that pulls the reader in."
William F. Aicher, author of Calibration 74
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"She writes with such illustrious clarity and complexity..."
Liv Archer, author of Sixth Sense and owner of Winter Writer Books
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"Rusnak is a master wordsmith who weaves non-linear sequencing, alternating perspectives, and complex characters to create a nuanced yet heart-wrenching book."
Amber Kuipers, author of When Grey Came to Stay
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It's hard to claim you don't write climate fiction when your book is called When the Trees All Burned.
And yet, sitting on a panel at Canada Fiction Fest alongside cli-fi authors Margaret Sweatman, Jason Pchajek, and K.A. Wiggins (moderated by author Steve Hugh Westernra) I found myself realizing that there's a difference between writing into a genre and knowing it from the inside out.
When the Trees All Burned deals in the chosen — the two hundred algorithmically selected to outlast the end of the world. But the edges of that story are crowded with people who weren't picked, weren't warned, weren't saved. People who watched the sky change colour over their morning coffee and didn't know what they were seeing until it was too late.
When Miracles Come of Fire belongs to two of those people.
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