Raye Anderson is a Scots Canadian who spent many years running Theatre Schools and presenting creative arts programmes for arts organizations, notably at the Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg. She now called Manitoba's Interlake home, where she is part of a thriving arts community. She has published three books: And We Shall Have Snow (shortlisted for the 2021 CWC Best Crime First Novel and the 2021 WILLA Literary Award for Original Softcover Fiction), And Then Is Heard No More, and Down Came the Rain. Her work has taken her across Canada, from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast, and as far north as Churchill and Yellowknife, as well as to the West Indies and her native Scotland.
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Winnipeg's Forks Market, a central location in Raye Anderson's And Then Is Heard No More (Signature Editions), becomes a perfect real-life setting for reading this, the second in the Roxanne Calloway Mystery series. Let the sparkling waters of the Assiniboine River and the ... Read more
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It’s easy to believe—from their perch on your bookshelves and on bedside tables – that books live a quiet little life, keeping time and company with the sunbeams, shadows, and dust motes. The truth is they have a very full life before they make it into your hands and your ... Read more
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The All Lit Up Indie Reading Room is open for another season with more authors and new books! If you tuned into our first iteration of IRR, you'll remember we hosted live readings via Zoom all May long. This time we're taking it to the gram with a lineup of ten fantastic authors ... Read more
Next up in our Indie Reading Room is Raye Anderson, author of And We Shall Have Snow (Signature Editions), a murder mystery about a local music star who is found murdered during the coldest part of winter in Manitoba's Interlake area. Scroll down for our Q&A with Raye, and ... Read more
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