![]() ![]() ![]() This one’s really not that good – I couldn’t get into it, I got bored,’ or whatever.” Open this photo in gallery: “It would hurt me, I think, if my publisher or readers were to say, ‘I really liked the first one. She was speaking on a Zoom call from the attic office of her house, a cozy, cottagey semi-detached in the east end of Toronto. “Oh yeah, it was terrible,” says Adamson, referring to the uncertainty that hung over her during the 10 years she spent writing Ridgerunner, which came out last month. But when the hubbub dies away and you finally set your mind to writing again, as Gil Adamson did a couple of years after the 2007 publication of her gothic Western The Outlander, you can understand how that success might make you gun-shy. It’s not always obvious that there’s a downside when your first novel comes out of nowhere and wins the hearts of readers and a cluster of awards and nominations, and runs up the bestseller chart. ![]()
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