Jeff Miller & Katie Mac Book Readings
Bookmark in Charlottetown is hosting fiction authors Jeff Miller and Katie Mac on June 3 at 7 pm. This is a free event, and all are welcome.
Pulsing with the raw energy of basement punk shows and DIY creativity, late-night manifestos and first heartbreaks, Jeff Miller’s debut novel Temporary Palaces captures a generation caught between idealism and survival, art and activism, the dreams that define us and the compromises that save us. According to Sean Michaels the book is “a plainspoken, punk-rock hymn … This is a book that will pick you up off the floor of a mosh pit and wrap you in its arms.”
Katie Mac’s new novel Dunk River Murders follows Maggie, a woman who is burnt out in her old political job and is running away from her problems by way of fly fishing, until dead bodies keep inconveniently popping up in her river. With a demoralized cop on the case, a traumatized potential survivor, and a web of mob deals to untangle, the only way to solve the murder might be to ask her unsavoury former boss for help.
Jeff Miller is the author of the award-winning creative nonfiction collection Ghost Pine: All Stories True. His stories have appeared in several anthologies, and he frequently publishes criticism. Miller holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and lives in Nova Scotia.
Katie Mac writes noir, thrillers, and westerns, all with a little bit of love and comedy. She co-wrote the Bell Fibe TV1 show Currie, based on the life of PEI-born wild west outlaw George ‘Flat Nose’ Currie. Mac received an Island Literary Award for her short story “The Key to Wednesdays” and her debut noir novel, Ken’s Corner, was published in 2024.
