Beverly Akerman MScApril 25, 2011 17:30 EST

Was really hoping The Walrus might review my book, The Meaning of Children, some day...as The Globe and Mail and The Montreal Gazette have done.

After all, I've been nominated for 3 Pushcarts and a National Magazine Award, and had my work in The Antigonish Review, Best New Writing 2011, The Binnacle, BluePrintReview, carte blanche, CBC Radio One's Sunday Edition, cellstories.net, Cliterature, The Dalhousie Review, Descant, EarLit Shorts, Fictionaut, Fog City Review, Grain, Joyland.ca, The Nashwaak Review, The New Quarterly, On the Premises, Rampike, Red Wheelbarrow, Rio Grande Review, r.kv.r.y quarterly, The Vocabula Review, and Windsor Review, not to mention The National Post, The Montreal Gazette, The Toronto Star, The Hill Times, Maisonneuve Magazine's blog, The Rover, The Daily Gleaner, The Sherbrooke Record, etc. etc. etc.

Well, there's always next issue. I continue to live in hope!

“[A] keen, incisive vision into the hidden world of children as well as intimate knowledge of the secret spaces that exist between the everyday events of life. There is knowledge here, knowledge of those important, life defining moments of puberty, the birth of a sibling, an encounter with a possibly dangerous stranger…a work with a brilliant sense of story.” JoAnne Soper-Cook, Judge, 2010 David Adams Richards Prize.

“Akerman holds up our greatest fears, not to dwell on them, but to marvel at our commitment to life, especially to passing it on to others.” Anne Chudobiak, The Montreal Gazette

“This isn’t the invented childhood of imagination and wonderment.” Katie Hewitt, The Globe & Mail

http://beverlyakermanmscwriter.blogspot.com

Bill AnnoyedApril 27, 2011 23:33 EST

Well, Beverly Ackerman,

I'm very sorry that your reputation as a person is being represented/sullied by this narcissistic self-aggrandizing excuse for a "comment". For your sake, I really hope that the above comment was simply the result of some hired-gun promoter given too much freedom and time.

If not, I'm sure there are other soapboxes for this junk; the Globe & Mail and Montreal Gazette, for instance. At least now, I have the pleasure of knowing that your "book" definitely won't be reviewed (at least positively) in the Walrus.