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The music we feature this week is from the Ottawa group The Cody Allen Band. You can download and listen to their latest album entitled “All is Not Lost” here! They will be back in Ottawa playing at Mavericks in November
This week we got to sit down with Ottawa Realtor and author, Peggy Blair(@peggy_blair). She currently has two great books out, The Beggar’s Opera and The Poisoned Pawn with many more to come! We spoke about:
– Living in the Westboro area
– Bobby Ryan moving into the area
– Some of the great places she likes to go is John’s Diner, Wellington Gastropub, Gezellig, Canvas Resto-Bar on Holland, and Cafe Mio
– Where some of her writer friends like go to go
– Her TV show on Rogers
– Where she likes to do her writing
– What brought her to start writing and her background before that
– A bit about what the books are about and why she chose the locations she did
– How she met her publisher
-“The moral of the story is don’t give up drinking wine”- Peggy Blair
– Where the book has been published
– Where she is at for books 3 and 4
After the break we discussed:
– How could someone go about writing a book
– Is it easier after the first book to get published?
– JK Rowling might be author of Lord of the Rings??
– What can we do better in Ottawa for our authors?
– Which authors she had on her TV show
Here is a video of a song the Cody Allen Band played on CTV Morning Live:
