Kobo Writing Life Podcast

  Episode 87 of the Kobo Writing Life podcast features a keynote address from When Words Collide’s 2016 Guest of Honour, Eve Silver. She is a national bestselling author of books for adults and teens, has won the Ontario Library Association’s “Forest of Reading White Pine Award” and has been praised for her “edgy, steamy, action-packed” books, darkly sexy heroes and take-charge heroines. Eve is introduced by Randy McCharles, When Words Collide chair, and who happens to also be a successful author. In her keynote talk from When Words Collide, Eve talks about: Writing her first book at the age of 9 The first form-letter rejection she received at that same age, which crushed her “little writer’s heart” A short story she wrote at the age of 16 for a high school assignment which led to a teacher calling out her talent The next teacher she encountered who wasn’t as fond of the fiction Eve was writing for her homework assignments and how that represented the second time her “little writer’s heart” was crushed The f