Author of the month for December 2011
Margaret Macpherson
Margaret Macpherson is a writer and teacher, originally from Canada's Northwest Territories. She holds a MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and has worked as an essayist and journalist in Halifax, Bermuda and Vancouver. She is a published poet and the author of four non-fiction books including the award winning Nellie McClung: Voice for the Voiceless. Her short story collection Perilous Departures was nominated for a Manitoba Book Award, as was her first novel, Released. Body Trade is Margaret Macpherson's seventh book.
Readers talk to Margaret Macpherson
How do you balance your writing with all the other things you do? In short, what’s your process?
When I'm working on a book, I tend to be fully engaged, going to the computer for about three to four hours a day. I compose on the screen and write in scenes, although in the first few drafts I'm never quite sure about the ordering and chronology of the scenes. I try to make sure each potion has it's own tension and moves the story forward. Body Trade took me almost four years to write. I'd ... 
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Your characters seem really realistic. Are they based on particular individuals?
Nope, like most authors, I tend to work from composites. I think I may have a preference for the "tough chick" persona because I met so many women like that in the ... 0
Books by Margaret Macpherson
