Douglas Gibson » Alistair MacLeod

A new stage performance by DOUGLAS GIBSON, announced here first, to my faithful blog friends! From coast to coast to coast (Ungava Bay, aboard an Adventure Canada cruise ship!) former publisher D...

https://douglasgibsonbooks.com/2017/01/15/a-new-show-150-years-of-great-canadian-storytellers-1867-2017/

You may have wondered why I let my blog slip in recent months. The answer is the best one possible, for me, at least. I’ve been busy writing a new book. This was a major surprise to me. Wheneve...

https://douglasgibsonbooks.com/2015/01/03/a-new-year-a-new-blog-a-new-book/

We all know how important the avid readers who belong to informal book clubs are to the world of books. I’m doing something new for them. I’ve produced a Storyteller’s Book Club where I dea...

https://douglasgibsonbooks.com/2013/07/03/my-new-book-club/

I’ve spent much of my stage-show tour in the company of the clan MacLeod. In Guelph, for example, young Daniel was in the audience at The Book Shelf show. In Peterborough, Lewis, as a faculty m...

https://douglasgibsonbooks.com/2012/11/30/alistair-macleod-writes-again/

The Globe and Mail obituary for the Rankin Family’s Raylene Rankin on October 10 began, Raylene Rankin and Susan Crowe disagreed about a scene in Alistair MacLeod’s novel No Great Mischief. T...

https://douglasgibsonbooks.com/2012/10/19/alistair-macleod-got-it-right/

I have attended the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, just outside Guelph, on several occasions, but always as a supportive publisher, cheering on an author or two. This year, in my new role of Aut...

https://douglasgibsonbooks.com/2012/10/16/the-mills-of-eden-grind-fine/

My five-year-old grandson, Alistair, has just learned to read. I sat down with him last weekend and showed him my book. He has already received his signed copy of “Granddad’s book,” which w...

https://douglasgibsonbooks.com/2012/07/12/the-best-possible-reader-response/

One interesting side of a publisher’s life is how the families of your authors regard you. In my book I write about how in mid-summer Alistair MacLeod was hard at work finishing No Great Mischi...

https://douglasgibsonbooks.com/2012/04/27/peterborough-and-the-mafia/

Enjoy another taste of Stories About Storytellers this Friday courtesy of a weekly feature from the Canadian Encyclopedia. This week, find out why Alistair MacLeod accused his editor of “a home...

https://douglasgibsonbooks.com/2011/09/30/an-excerpt-on-alistair-macleod-on-the-canadian-encyclopedia-blog/