Jackson Ford\, author of the Frost Files s eries beginning with "The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind"\, will b e discussing the important of joy in writing. \;Creating fiction often carries the idea that the writer has to be tortured\, struggling\, damage d and use writing purely to cope with their life. In this presentation\, F ord will talk about writing from a different angle: writing as a form of p lay\, of unrestricted\, wild joy! He will discuss how to approach that as a writer\, how to seek it out as a reader and how he used this idea to wri te the Frost Files books.
\nJackson Ford is a South African author l iving in Vancouver BC\, because you can't snowboard in Johannesburg. He is the author of The Frost Files series\, beginning with "The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind". The series been optioned for TV\, translated in to multiple languages\, and sold thousands of copies worldwide. Under his real name\, Rob Boffard\, he is the author of the sci-fi trilogy "Outer Ea rth". Jackson is still amazed that people pay him for this\, even though m ost of it goes on whiskey\, videogames\, and dog treats.
\nBooks wil l be available for sale and signing following the event. \;
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