An Interview with Holly Quan: Author of The Sow’s Ear Café
Holly Quan is an award‐winning writer and communications specialist. She’s been freelancing since 1988 and has written documentary film scripts, newspaper and magazine articles, corporate communications materials and several non‐fiction books. In 2000, Holly and her long‐time partner moved from Calgary to a small town in the Alberta foothills. That transformation from city mouse to country mouse was the inspiration for The Sow’s Ear Café, her first novel.
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The Sow’s Ear Cafe is, on one level, a contemporary romance set in the gorgeous foothills of southwestern Alberta, Canada, involving two broken people who learn […]
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