A novel that sells as few as 800 copies in Canada is considered successful. So you can imagine how pleased I was to hear that my publisher, Pottersfield Press, has sold out of its first printing of 1500 copies of The Social Worker: A Novel. I continue to tour across North America and internationally and am finding response to the novel wonderful. Professors of Social Work are using it in courses on ethics; front line workers are writing me to tell me how pleased they are to finally read a novel that takes readers inside the work they do, with all the gritty realities one finds there. Now if only I could find an American publisher to pick it up…that’s my summer’s task. In the mean time, I’m pleased to see my work, and that of my many colleagues, being featured prominently in a number [..]
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