Canada Reads
The Globe and Mail suggests that Too Close to the Falls would a good choice if there were a non-fiction category for CBC's Canada Reads.
Globe and Mail Review
"Cathy McClure grows up - barely"
Read the latest review here.
Winnipeg Free Press Review
"Advice writer dishes out life story in tasty servings"
Read the review here.
National Post Book Review
Being herself, no matter the costs
Read this review of After the Falls here. This interview also appeared in the Montreal Gazette and the Ottawa Citizen.
After the Falls Book Launch Photos
Here are some photos from my recent book launches in both Toronto and Creemore.
After the Falls on Rogers Daytime Ottawa
You can catch my recent television appearance on Rogers Daytime Ottawa here.
After the Falls
The sequel to my memoir Too Close to the Falls is coming out in October 2009, published by Knopf-Random House. The title is After the Falls and it covers my life from the ages of 13-21.
The setting is the 60’s. The reader is whisked through my hapless teenage years when I tooled around Buffalo’s suburbs in my parents’ peacock blue 409 Impala convertible with the Beach Boys blaring on the radio, into the late 60’s when cities were burning, my college graduation was cancelled due to riots, the FBI investigated me, and I had to leave the country. Don’t believe Darwin who said it takes eons to evolve into another species. I did it in less than a decade.
Going Green
This year my film short won third place at the 2008 Creemore Mocks Film Festival. I was also awarded Best Actress.
Going Green...
It's Sooo Country...
My film short recently won the Best in Show category at the 2007 Creemore Mocks Film Fest. Take a look at life in the country as I see it.
It's Sooo Country...
Die Zeit and Seduction
Good news from Germany about Seduction. I am really pleased that Seduction has been a real hit in Germany. In fact, the famous weekly Die Zeit, will issue a special crime series about twelve selected titles, one of which is Seduction. Each selection has a scientific background, e.g. mathematics, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, forensics, etc. For each book, the Zeit editors will contribute supplementary info material that relates to the respective scientific field and the genre of suspense literature. Die Zeit has published such one-time book series with a specific focus before, very successfully. Other authors published in the series in the past include Ken Follett, Martin Suter and Adam Fawer. I am of course thrilled to be in the company of these 'thriller giants'.
Auf Wiedersehen!
The Loafers: My contribution to The First Man in My Life
Sandra Martin, well-known literary critic, has edited an anthology of original pieces about fathers and daughters for Penguin Canada. The First Man in My Life contains 22 narratives about a memory, a secret or an insight that made each contributor see her father in a new light or with a deeper understanding. The publication date is May 19, 2007, just in time for Father's Day. My contribution is a piece called The Loafers.
Seduction Makes the Best Seller Lists
In February 2006, Seduction made it to the best seller list in Holland.
By the second week in March (2005) Seduction was
• #3 on MacLean’s best seller list
• #10 on the National Post best seller list
Seduction Goes International
Dutch, German, French and Bulgarian translations will come out in the near future.
Too Close to the Falls Makes Best Seller and Award Lists
Too Close to the Falls was on the following best seller lists and was nominated for and won the following awards:
• On the Extended New York Times best seller list
• Holds Canadian record for Globe and Mail best seller's list — 104 weeks
• On the Boston Globe's best seller's list
• Short listed for Trillium Award
• Won Different Drummer's Award 2000
• On National Post's best seller list for over a year
• Listed in Globe top 100 books for 2000
• Short listed for the British YoungMinds Book Award
Too Close to the Falls was bought by Harper Flamingo in England and Australia and came out in the spring of 2003. The Australian Women's Weekly, the biggest circulating Australian women's magazine, selected Too Close to the Falls as their Book of the Month for March 2003. I toured England and Australia shortly afterwards.
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