Hi, Brian.
Only two months until
publication!!
Hope you'll come to my book
launch – everyone’s invited!
June 12, 2024
Massey College,
University of Toronto (Map here)
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Yours,
Marianne
P.S. I’m
told pre-orders are very important. So please, order your copy now.
We Were the Bullfighters
by Marianne K. Miller
Sent to cover bank robber Red Ryan’s daring prison break, a young
Ernest Hemingway becomes fascinated with the convict.
In 1923, Ernest Hemingway, struggling with the responsibilities of
marriage and unexpected fatherhood, has just made a big mistake. He decided
that for the baby’s first year he would interrupt his fledgling writing career
in Paris and move his family to North America. No longer a freelancer, he now
has a gruelling job with a difficult boss, as a staff reporter for the Toronto Daily Star. On his first day, already feeling hemmed in by
circumstances, he’s sent to cover a prison break at Kingston Pen.
The escaped convicts, led by notorious bank robber Norman “Red”
Ryan, are on the run, making their way from the bush north of Kingston, to the
streets of Toronto, and then through towns and cities across the United States.
Their crimes become more brazen, their lifestyle increasingly glamorous.
Growing more and more preoccupied with Ryan and his willingness to risk
everything to be free, Hemingway ponders duty, freedom, and what stops a man
from pursuing his dreams.
Available for
pre-order from Chapters / Indigo here. Or order from your local
bookstore (here).
Note: If you’re interested in getting published, come to our in-person “How to Get Published” workshop, May 11, in Niagara on the Lake. Learn how it all works and get some help with your query letter. Details here.
What People
Are Saying...
Marianne |
Paula
McLain, author of The Paris Wife:
“In her
debut novel, Marianne K. Miller renders a little-explored time in Hemingway’s
life with the accurate eye of the Hemingway scholar she happens to be, but also
with boldness and keen imagination. I turned every page of We Were the
Bullfighters with great pleasure and admiration.”
Kathryn
Kuitenbrouwer, author of Wait Softly Brother:
“Intriguing.
Hardboiled. Cinematic. We Were the Bullfighters is a truly
fine romp of a novel!”
Lee
Gowan, author of The Beautiful Place:
“A window
into Canada's role in the making of Ernest Hemingway in clear, clean
prose.”
Kim Echlin,
author of Speak, Silence:
“In this
wonderful story, the young Ernest Hemingway is a Toronto Daily Star reporter
who feels a strange connection to legendary bank robber, Red Ryan. Miller’s
expertise on Hemingway and her penetrating observations about our
responsibilities to our talents makes this a must-read historical fiction in
which “artists are like convicts” and people choose what they will sacrifice
for freedom.”
J.R.
McConvey, author of Different Beasts:
“Marianne
Miller brings a deceptively light touch to this evocative and finely researched
story of a colourful moment in the life of a burgeoning literary giant. With
efficient language that Hemingway would have liked, she gives us a rollicking
tale of escaped convicts on the run from Kingston Pen, and the young Toronto
crime reporter in pursuit of a story and a literary path. We Were the
Bullfighters wonderfully captures the character of Hemingway and the
atmosphere of Toronto in the 1920s.”
Barbara
Fradkin, author of the Inspector Green and Amanda Doucette mysteries:
“Skillfully capturing
the wild, rum-running 1920s, Marianne Miller creates a fascinating,
fictionalized tale of two men fighting to break free; one a young Hemingway
dreaming of his first great novel and the other, a daring bank robber on the run
from Kingston Penitentiary.”
Note: For information about submitting to Dundurn
Press (Marianne’s publisher), see here.
See our upcoming weekly writing classes, one-day workshops, and four-day writing retreats here.
See other new books and invitations to book launches from your fellow authors here (and scroll down).
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