{"id":917,"date":"2013-11-15T17:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T22:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=917"},"modified":"2013-11-18T17:27:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T22:27:48","slug":"exchanging-notes-alissa-york-at-the-toronto-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Exchanging Notes &#8211; Alissa York at the Toronto Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a great time at the Toronto Public Library yesterday, where writer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alissayork.com\" target=\"_blank\">Alissa York<\/a> was a guest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/towc.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Writers&rsquo; Co-operative<\/a>, and interviewed by john miller.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-918\" alt=\"IMG_8439[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_84391-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_84391-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_84391-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ms. York talked about her childhood, the inspiration for her books, her writing routine, the importance of naming characters well (with which I agreed wholeheartedly) and the role of animals in her life and in her writing.<\/p>\n<p>I was struck by Ms. York&rsquo;s dedication to her writing and the thoroughness of her research (Ms. York&rsquo;s books are quite research-heavy), and at how one tiny detail such as a discrepancy in the number of survivors of the 1857 Mountain Meadows massacre provided \u00ab\u00a0just enough room\u00a0\u00bb to allow her to write her novel\u00a0<em>Effigy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It was an enlightening, entertaining and enjoyable evening. I wish I had taken notes beyond the few in my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ammatte\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter feed<\/a>!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_922\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-922\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/AMMetAlissaYork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-922\" alt=\"A.M. Matte and Alissa York standing side by side in an open space of the Toronto Public Library\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/AMMetAlissaYork-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/AMMetAlissaYork-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/AMMetAlissaYork.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A.M. Matte and Alissa York at the Toronto Public Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a great time at the Toronto Public Library yesterday, where writer\u00a0Alissa York was a guest of the Toronto Writers&rsquo; Co-operative, and interviewed by john miller. Ms. York talked about her childhood, the inspiration for her books, her writing routine,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,474,475,198,426,477,476,99,427,12],"language":[7],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-m-matte","tag-alissa-york","tag-effigy","tag-inspiration","tag-library","tag-research","tag-routine","tag-toronto","tag-towc","tag-writing","language-en_ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flanguage&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}