Up-coming: RIVER WALK, #childrenstory, Fall 2026. Author of #Canadian 🇨🇦 Short Stories + novels 📚TRILLIUM🍷 & The Gilded Beaver🛶 + 🎬The Frozen Goose 🎭
Elizabethtown-Kitley, Ontario
Joined June 2016
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ATTN: #writingcommunity - #writers & #readers
What are your thoughts regarding the new #Audible #Royalty structure coming into effect at the end of Dec, '26?
NB: The #legacy model will be retired & prior #audiobooks delisted.
Audible’s new sytem:
youtu.be/8NaeAoXpYmI/
Margaret LINDSAY Holton retweeted
A pair of swans performing a synchronized dance for each other to strengthen their bond
📹 Virory
#writingcommunity ~ hey👋
... it's been a long time
I'm still here - just lurking😘
⛱ ~ Doesn't this trip sound #wonderful ~? 👇
'Bahamas by #India#Hicks — 6 days with @IndiaHicks'
Organized by Byline Travel byline.travel/experience/bah…
Dear #Beta #readers ~
I'm in need of 5 #parents who buy #books and/or #read for their #children, ages 9-12, to consider an up-coming #picturebook
#RIVERWALK
(by yours truly)
Near-finished e-copies will be available for #review late Aug/early Sept.
Comment below. 🙏
Thanks❣️
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... at the CORE of #historicalfiction aka #histfic is this mathematical certainty ... 👇
TRILLIUM, set in #Canada, starting in the mid-1750s considers this equation .... 👇
Links in bio. 🇨🇦☃️🎄🙏
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What are you #reading this #weekend ~? Why not try a little #canajun #magic ~?
STICKS and STONES:
Ten #Canadian #Shortstories
by MLHolton
#alberta #nfld #Saskatchewan #manitoba #firstnations #yukon #Quebec #newbrunswick #PEI #novascotia #Innunivut
linktr.ee/MargaretLindsayHol…
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HISTORY MADE: Astronaut Christina Koch, aboard Artemis II, officially becomes the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth.
... TODAY ~ Tune in @ noon ~ #WritingCommunity 👇
#CozyBookNook - a Space Broadcast on X .... 👇
Wonderful initiative by the #WritingCommunity - an X #space for #writers ❣️
TUNE IN on Tuesday, #CincodeMayo #CozyBookNook 📚📖📚📖
Cozy Book Nook #CincodeMayo
@NoorioZehra new link!
#CozyBookNook #Podcast
📅#Tuesday May 5th
🕛12 PM EST
🎙️Link: xitter.cf/i/spaces/1rGmqoeNWknGy
Hosts:
@inspiredbylaban
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@loveGoldenHeart
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... #authors #writers #readers I find it both curious & interesting to look back & reflect on older #interviews ...
We evolve, and yet, we're still the same. All said here is still true, except I don't watch #CoronationStreet anymore. Just lost interest. authorsinterviews.wordpress.…
. #Canadian #Poetry Online | via University of Toronto Libraries
I wrote this #poem, 'Shareware', many #moons ago ... it feels timely, now.
~ What do you think? 🙏 canpoetry.library.utoronto.c…
... Sidebar, sort of ...
Track: #Canadian 🇨🇦 #short #stories ~ by MLHolton ☃️🌷 canadada.bandcamp.com/track/…
~ Happy #Easter All❣️🐥
I've written a 'catch-up' blog post for the interested.
It's on the 'art blog' at the bottom of the list in the link attached to my bio. 👍
Plus, the St.Lawrence River has now OPEN for the 2026 season. Woowho❣️🐰🥂🇨🇦
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Conceived during the #pandemic, I was asked what I'd done prior, and what I hoped to accomplish in the #future ... At that time, in 2020, the #audiobook version of TRILLIUM had just #wrapped. STICKS AND STONES was hatching.
#worksinprogress
#Life #work jamesstrecker.com/words/?p=3…
Interesting #interview ~ with author #LeeChild, the #man behind the #JackReacher series. ~ Well-done, David. 👍
#WritingCommunity
#authors #writers #readers
Lee Child is the man behind the Jack Reacher series. He's sold more than 200 million books, and two of his books were adapted into movies starring Tom Cruise.
How popular are his books? In the UK, his series has sold more copies than J.K Rowling did with Harry Potter on Amazon. So at this point, you basically can't talk about contemporary crime and thriller books without talking about Lee Child.
This interview is all about how he wrote that Jack Reacher series. To the best of my knowledge, it's the deepest interview he's ever done about his writing process.
Timestamps:
0:30 Writing stories in America
7:26 You don't need an outline
12:50 Writing one book per year
17:57 Why the 60s were so creative
18:56 The business of writing
23:05 The key to page-turner books
38:25 How to write good dialogue
43:15 Where to start / end a book
52:18 Writing a violent scene
56:56 Using clothes to reveal character
1:00:43 Why the UK has so many good writers
I've shared the full conversation below. If you'd rather watch on YouTube, or listen on Apple / Spotify, check out the links in the first reply tweet.
Enjoy!