{"id":93,"date":"2013-01-16T20:53:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T01:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=93"},"modified":"2013-02-26T21:02:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T02:02:04","slug":"may-18-2013-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/may-18-2013-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"May 18, 2013 Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 18, 2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Howard Shrier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.howardshrier.com\/images\/layout\/portrait.jpg?resize=176%2C203\" width=\"176\" height=\"203\" \/>Howard Shrier was born and raised in Montreal, where he earned an Honours Degree in journalism and creative writing at Concordia University. He has worked as a writer for more than thirty years in a wide variety of media, including print, magazine and radio journalism, theatre and television, sketch comedy and improv, and high-level corporate and government communications. His critically acclaimed first novel, <i>Buffalo Jump<\/i>, which introduces Toronto investigator Jonah Geller, won the Crime Writers of Canada\u2019s Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. The sequel, <i>High Chicago<\/i>, won the Arthur Ellis for Best Novel of 2009, making Howard the first author in the history of the awards to win both back to back. <i>Boston Cream <\/i>was published to rave reviews in 2013, including starred reviews in Publisher\u2019s Weekly and the Library Journal. <i>Miss Montreal<\/i>, the fourth Geller book, is due out May 14, 2013. All the Geller books are published by Random House Canada and have been optioned for television by Toronto-based <a title=\"Media Headquarters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediahqs.net\/\">Media Headquarters<\/a>.\u00a0 Howard is also the author of one standalone thriller, <i>Lostport <\/i>(2011). He now lives in Toronto with his wife and sons and is working on a new novel set in Montreal in 1950-51. He also teaches writing at University of Toronto\u2019s School of Continuing Studies. He plans to write a longer bio when he needs to procrastinate a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 18, 2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Howard Shrier Howard Shrier was born and raised in Montreal, where he earned an Honours Degree in journalism and creative writing at Concordia University. He has worked as a writer for more than thirty years in a wide variety of media, including print, magazine and radio journalism, theatre and television, sketch comedy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/may-18-2013-speaker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May 18, 2013 Speaker<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8RivX-1v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}