Authors from far and wide will be attending this year’s Saskatchewan Festival of Words.
The 14th annual festival takes place from July 15 to 18 with more than 60 events for people to enjoy.
One of the authors attending will be Richard Scarsbrook, who lives in Toronto.
His fourth book The Monkeyface Chronicles was published in March by Thistledown Press of Saskatoon.
His other young adult novels include Cheeseburger Subversive and Featherless Bipeds. Both were short-listed for the Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Book of the Year Award and the Stellar Book Award.
Scarsbrook has also written a short story collection called Destiny’s Telescope for adults.
But he said he doesn’t sit down to write for a particular audience.
“I just write the story how I feel I want it or it needs to be and I let the publisher decide which market to promote it to.
“Some of my young adult books are popular with adults as well so I do not concern myself with categorizing but write the story I want to tell and hope it finds an audience,” he said.
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