MovingStories.TV -- Celebrating Books On Screen

MovingStories.TV: Ep.30 - David Gibbons on THE L...

David Gibbons is an underwater archaeologist (think of a combination of Kathy Reichs and Dan Brown, but underwater!). THE LAST GOSPEL is his third international bestseller featuring diver and historian Jack Howard. The first of David's bestsellers was ATLANTIS and the second was CRUSADER GOLD (tracking a menorrah stolen in the sack of Rome). This new novel seeks solutions to the mystery of the life of Christ and a gospel that might have been buried in the eruption of Vesuvius.For more McArthur...

MovingStories.TV Ep.29 - The Takers, a spooky YA...

MovingStories.TV Ep.27 - Phyllis Smallman in McA...

www.movingstories.tv -- Phyllis Smallman, who divides her time between Hamilton, Ontario and Salt Spring Island, Florida is the auhtor of MARGARITA NIGHTS, the first in a series set in Florida and featuring her character Sherry Travis.Sherri Travis is a bartender, lives in a down at heel part of town, has a fashion sense she herself describes as white trash. Smallman writes about a Florida that most sunbirds don’t see or ignore if they do. This book was the first winner of the Unhanged Arthur ...

MovingStories.TV Ep.28 - Andrew Davidson on The ...

www.movingstories.tv -- Andrew Davidson explains the history and the hype behind his spooky debut novel, The Gargoyle -- “It’s really about love.” In the BookShorts interpretation of novel The Gargoyle, produced for Doubleday US, by Director / Editor Bert Kish, the narrative of author Andrew Davidson book is excerpted and performed by the artist himself. To see the video, visit www.movingstoriesfilmfest.com © 2008 Doubleday Publishing Group, Produced by BookShorts Inc.

MovingStories.TV Ep 26: Ann Granger in McArthur ...

www.movingstories.tv -- The second novel in Ann Granger's wonderfully atmospheric Victorian mystery series. Lizzie Martin, lady's companion, has been sent from London to the New Forest to comfort a young woman whose baby has tragically died. A sad enough task, but things take an even darker turn when a rat-catcher is found murdered in the garden, and the young woman is discovered beside the body, crying and covered in blood. Not knowing where else to turn, Lizzie calls upon her friend Inspecto...

MovingStories.TV Ep 25: McArthur Mystery Series ...

www.movingstories.tv -- Author Louise Penny speaks from between the lines about her new novel THE MURDER STONE. Book Smmary: When the privileged offspring of the Finney family get together at the luxurious Manoir Bellechasse to commemorate their father, family tensions are let loose. When one of their number is killed in unusual circumstances, it's up to the charming Inspector Armand Gamache to delve beneath the sibling rivalries, bitter jealousies and outsider envy to solve the devious crime ...

MovingStories.TV Ep 24: McArthur Mystery Series ...

www.movingstories.tv - Author C.C. Humphreys talks candidly about writing his latest novel VLAD, THE LAST CONFESSION. Book Summary: DRACULA. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his tale not one of a monster but of a man and a contradiction. For the one they called The Devils Son was both tyrant and lawgiver, crusader and mass slaughterer, torturer and hero, lover and murderer.

MovingStories.TV Ep 23: McArthur Mystery Series ...

www.movingstories.tv Author John Brady speaks from between the lines about his new Matt Minogue mystery THE GOING RATE. Brady will be appearing at the International Festival of Authors 2008.

MovingStories.TV Ep.22: David Chariandy, on the ...

www.movingstoriesfilmfest.com -- Our intrepid and curious colleague, author and de facto Moving Stories reporter JAMES MCCREATH caught up with David Chariandy at Toronto's The Word on the Street (Sep 2008). A timely interview indeed, as Moving Stories prepares screen the premiere of the short film inspired by the book, SOUCOUYANT. BC filmmaker KEN TSUI is hard at work with his post-production team preparing the film for its debut OCTOBER 25 at the Vancouver International Writers Festival, Gran...

MovingStories.TV Ep 21: Performers "Rally for Cu...

www.movingstories.tv -- A country’s culture defines its national identity. But Stephen Harper says that ordinary Canadians don’t care about the arts, and that government must avoid "funding things that people actually don't want." Over the last three years, the Harper government has attempted to muzzle our culture industry. But Canada’s fiercely talented artists have come back swinging. If anything, Harper’s comments have reminded “ordinary Canadians” just how much culture does matter. Top art...