Jim Sutherland

I'm a longtime and long-ago magazine editor who became a magazine writer before finally deciding, why not write a novel, what could be easier? Well, most things, it turns out, yet I've been churning one out every seven years like clockwork, which I think says something about the gumption I possess.

Both Snap Slice and Good Grief lean in the direction of humour, so maybe it's not surprising that my favourite writers over the decades have often leaned that way too, a list that includes, in roughly chronological order, Farley Mowat (I grew up in Saskatchewan, where he once lived), Stephen Leacock, Hunter S. Thompson, Evelyn Waugh, Donald E. Westlake, Nick Hornby and Richard Russo. I seek my challenges elsewhere in life, some might sniff.

For the past three decades I've lived in Vancouver with my wife, Jessie, also a native Saskatchewanian. It's a beautiful city, and always so drought-free.