Location: Canada
Member Since: June 02, 2012

Tom Henighan


Biography

Tom Henighan, Ottawa writer and editor, is the author of some 20 published books, including fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Some of his best-known non-fiction titles include two important books on Canadian culture, Ideas of North (1997), and The Presumption of Culture (1996), as well as Coming of Age in Arabia (2004), about the former British Colony of Aden, and a biography of the explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson (2009). He has also published two adult novels (one of them Nightshade, a mystery novel, in 2010), two volumes of short stories, and six YA novels, including Mercury Man (2004), Doom Lake Holiday (2009), and The Boy from Left Field (2012). Tom was one of the (three) founders of ARC poetry magazine, and has published two volumes of poetry, including Time's Fools (2010). His work has been nominated for various awards, including The Seal Books first novel award, the Red Maple Award, the Ottawa Fiction Prize, Shamus Award and the Riesling Award. Henighan was Associate Editor of Ottawa Revue, an influential arts and entertainment journal of the 1970s-80s. In 2008, he was awarded the Victor Tolgesy Prize for lifetime contribution to the arts in Ottawa.

Where to find Tom Henighan online

Website: http://tomhenighanjournal.wordpress.com
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/tom-henighan/3b/668/2b6

Where to buy in print

http://www.dundurn.com

Books

Storm Warnings: Stories of Love and Sorrow    by Tom Henighan
Price: $2.99 USD. 74800 words. Published on February 24, 2013. Fiction.
Love and loneliness, the quest for family happiness and sexual fulfillment, odd encounters and comical miscalculations–these stories move between city and country and display a wide range of men, women and children in search of joy, pleasure, and a success in life that often seems just out of reach.
Messages from the Sun: Encounters in Elsewhen    by Tom Henighan
Price: $2.99 USD. 58500 words. Published on February 19, 2013. Fiction.
Explorers search for the abominable snowman as the world moves toward catastrophe. A woman sells her child in a market, then tries to get him back. A house becomes a puzzling cosmos for an alienated couple. A biomic man longs for his lost treasures. A small town is haunted by aliens from Algol . . . Fourteen stories to delight you and set you thinking by a past-master of contemporary fantasy.
Dark Alchemy    by Tom Henighan
Price: $2.99 USD. 92090 words. Published on November 5, 2012. Fiction.
C.G. Jung’s Red Book, Vivaldi, Depleted Uranium. In this new take on classic noir, California-born private eye Sam Montcalm, a tough guy with a taste for the arts, challenges a government conspiracy of silence, and learns about the alchemy of transformation as he follows two powerful women to a climax of violence beside the Angel’s Flight railway in LA.
The Christmas Demons    by Tom Henighan
Price: $1.99 USD. 52390 words. Published on September 21, 2012. Fiction.
Tim Daly, fourteen, is gifted—and cursed--with “the second sight,” the power to see distant or future events. With his sister Kate he is chosen to save Tir-Nan-Og, the magic land of Irish legend, which the devilish Mr. Bender and his demonic legions are trying to destroy. Everything comes to a climax at Christmas when the power of a carved angel is discovered just in time for the final battle.
Tunnel Down to Moonrise    by Tom Henighan
Price: $2.99 USD. 91050 words. Published on June 2, 2012. Fiction.
Jack Toland, a cool seventeen-year-old, is ready for a family holiday in England when his father (a crusading TV scientist) disappears. Jack’s father has been spirited away by a group of renegade scientists and thugs who have discovered a means of time-travel, and Jack and his dazzling new friend Cleo must travel to ancient Stonehenge to try to find him.

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