thomas trofimuk

You are sitting in an office tower 17 floors above the Earth looking out the window at the river valley and the gray-cloud ripped horizon. Your name is not important. Your first novel, The 52nd Poem, (a book about snow and mountains, moose, nuns, falling trees, Jane Siberry, and love) was published by Great Plains Publications in the spring of 2002. The book won some awards including the 2003 Alberta Book Awards’ Georges Bugnet Novel of the Year, the City of Edmonton Book Prize and the Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year Award. The book went into a second printing in the fall of 2003 but all of this is unimportant. Only the next book matters. Your second novel, Doubting Yourself to the Bone, is slated to be published by Cormorant Books in the fall of 2005, and that is where your focus is now. You write and revise and read, and edit and tighten the words.