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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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Chicken House Press announces the release of Where The Ashes Find Their Grave, the highly anticipated second book in Alanna Rusnak’s series The Path That Takes Us Home
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.
Lining up a book tour was exciting. It felt productive and affirming. Every time a bookstore or coffee shop or market said yes, I interpreted that to mean my book was worthy. I lined up event after event. I ordered in (more than) enough inventory. I marketed to the best of my abilities.
And then I crashed. Hard. And I was only half way through.