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    Local News: Local Setting in the novel Sunflowers and Sweet Peas
    Leigh Macfarlane
    • Apr 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    Local News: Local Setting in the novel Sunflowers and Sweet Peas

    Last night I finished the first chapter in book two of a series set in the town of Peachland, British Columbia — Sunflowers and Sweet Peas. I’m excited to be working on this new series, and am excited to start publishing them in 2021. Mind you, when  I do, disclaimers will seriously apply. I’ve been excited to feature local events, local locations to some extent, actual local bands, local concerns, and today, Castanet gave me ideas for local news. When using real names, I’ve
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    Sentences I Never Expected to Say: I Just Got off the Phone with the IRS
    Leigh Macfarlane
    • May 1, 2019
    • 4 min

    Sentences I Never Expected to Say: I Just Got off the Phone with the IRS

    Earlier this week, my first work of fiction was published. Cue fireworks and cheering crowds and confetti falling from the sky. (Smoke. Available on Amazon as a print copy and on Smashwords as an Ebook. Please buy me. Support the arts. Support a starving author). I already have orders for the print version filled and in the mail, and it is pretty sweet that you can produce something, then let the Internet do the rest of the work for you, while you get about the business of th
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    And Aw-aaay we go!
    Leigh Macfarlane
    • Apr 10, 2019
    • 5 min

    And Aw-aaay we go!

    The first time I published a book, it was a 140-pager titled Tailgate Church. My brother-in-law had given me a truck, and I decided to take the truck and the guitar, and drop the tailgate and “have church” — and see what random things might occur. Then I wrote the book. The second time I published a book, it was called “The Little Green Beetle” and it was a children’s book I illustrated myself. What happened was, I was at a low point in my personal life and feeling completely
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