About the Author
June Hutton
June Hutton was a northern reporter, then inner-city teacher before writing her first novel, UNDERGROUND. Called "taut and lean, elegant and poetic" by the GLOBE AND MAIL, it was shortlisted for the 2010 OLA Evergreen Award. An instructor for SFU's Writer's Studio Online and UBC's Writing Centre, June currently lives in Vancouver.
Throughout 2020, All Lit Up-er Tan Light has been participating in BookRiot's Read Harder Challenge—a reading task designed to expand readerly boundaries—and doing so with an indie twist. Each entry in this series will highlight one or two completed challenges along ... Read more
Once you read that last chapter of a good book and put it down, there is so much to do and so much to consider. You want to take a moment and decide how it made you feel, or write down your two cents, maybe even cross it off your list and reach for the next book. But my personal ... Read more
If June Hutton’s Two-Gun & Sun suddenly up and left your life like...whoops - that was almost a spoiler-alert! But seriously, if you’ve got a Two-Gun shaped hole in your little reader’s heart, we’ve got the follow-up reads that might just fill it.
This week went by so quickly, it feels like summer will be over before we know it. Slow down for a few minutes and catch up on all the book-ish happenings around ALU and further afield.
How frequently do you wish you could ask the author of the book you're reading questions about what's going on? Well, we're uniquely privileged readers here at All Lit Up, because we got to do just that with June Hutton, author of our July Book Club pick, Two-Gun & Sun ... Read more
When I came across the poem “Let Go” in Garry Gottfreidson’s Whiskey Bullets (Ronsdale Press), it felt as though it came right out of our ALU Book Club pick, Two-Gun & Sun, a frontier-mining story with a whiskey-loving protagonist, Miss Lila Sinclair. Gottfreidson ... Read more
Last week, we took an in-depth look at our July book club pick, Two-Gun & Sun. This week, we hunkered down with a not-insignificant amount of candy and discussed the book amongst ourselves – and the fruits of that conversation are available for your listening pleasure. ... Read more
The time has come! We're kicking off our Summer Book Club by introducing you to our July pick, June Hutton's steampunk western with a print culture twist and operatic finish, Two-Gun & Sun, as well as talking about the book with its publisher, Caitlin Press.
Summer in the publishing world tends to mean things slow down, that there is a break of sorts between the crop of titles that came in the spring and the fall season that leads into the bustling holidays. While there may not be as many titles published in the summer, many people ... Read more
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