Sue Bowness

Spanning two continents and six decades, Michael Crummey’s second novel, The Wreckage, is a beautifully spun romance, an epic story that affirms love’s triumph over time and circumstance. Beyond the depth of each lover’s feeling for the beloved, the novel also reveals the profound consequences of separation. Set in the outport villages of Newfoundland and the Japanese prisoner of war camps of World War…

So you are a writer, and someone tells you they’ve devised a way for your work to reach hundreds—no, make that thousands—of new readers over a much wider area than the one in which your work is currently distributed. The quality of reader also will likely be higher, not only because your writing will be promoted to readers interested in your specific form or genre of…