B.T. Landry
Like so many writers, I am also a journalist. After finishing a journalism degree in 1993 in Nova Scotia, Canada, I left to work as a freelancer and stringer based in Budapest, Hungary. There I wrote most notably for the British-based Economist Group, but I also did a fair amount of local reporting on the changing face of post-communist Hungary. Then, in the late 1990s, I moved to New York and worked as an editor on Wall Street. I didn’t like that nearly as much as journalism—but I did get an insider’s look at the wacky and distorted workings of the international financial industry. I left New York in 2000, thankfully before 9/11, and moved back to Canada, where I was once again a freelance broadcaster and writer (for such outlets as the CBC and the Toronto Star). There I did stories mostly on social, societal issues like addiction or autism. My CBC story on autism, a two-hour series called "The Dark End of the Spectrum", is an international award-winning documentary. A few years ago my life took a dramatic turn when my husband and I moved back to Nova Scotia to lend a hand to my cancer-survivor mom after my dad died. So, besides writing, that’s what I do now. I always knew I would write novels, but I had to search to find my own style. I have a certain realistic and practical directness that seemed to be at odds with a strong attraction to magic realism and flights of fancy. Eventually figured it out—and the result is my first novel, “White Night”.
BuddhaClaus
by B.T. Landry
Enjoy this FREE short story to get you in the holiday mood: it's about spirituality, love and a department store Santa who seeks to reinvent himself after losing it all. Merry Christmas!