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In this episode of Re-Creative, Joe and Mark talk to Christopher Sweet about, well, everything we could think of related to writing, books and publishing… including our darkest fears. We each have one! But you’ll have to listen to the episode to discover what they are.
We explore Christopher’s love for Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, and tumble headlong down rabbit holes containing more of King’s work, in particular The Shining.
Christopher shares his thoughts on indie publishing, his own budding career in writing, and even waxes poetically about em dashes—a subject upon which the three of us agree.
It’s a fun, illuminating conversation with a talent to be watched… and read.
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Christopher Sweet is an author from New Brunswick. Joe was introduced to his work by the folks behind Partridge Island Publishing when he visited their bookstore in Saint John and asked them what he should be reading. They handed him Christopher’s novella Something Sweet. He read it and was impressed. This guy can write! he thought, and reviewed it thusly:
“I’m impressed. At 73 pages, this indie novella is expertly constructed and tightly written and boasts a pitch-perfect ending. It isn’t for the faint of heart, though. It contains adult situations and the author himself calls it a “gross little story” (it’s only gross at the end though).
It would make an excellent X-Files episode and is reminiscent of the work of Stephen King (in the best possible sense). Can’t wait to see more from Christopher Sweet!” ~ Joe Mahoney, Shepherd.com
A few months later Joe met Christopher at the Greater Moncton, Riverview, Dieppe Bookfair and discovered that he’s a pretty cool guy as well as a great writer. Other local writers told him, “Watch this guy. It’s only a matter of time until he’s Canada’s Stephen King.” Having compared him to the master himself, Joe believes it.
Christopher Sweet has been, in his words, “…a freelance writer, manager, waiter, bartender, event DJ, actor, children’s entertainer, truck driver, shopkeeper, call centre operator, concierge, office assistant, barista, supply teacher, and—most recently—a campground manager.” He’s a cinephile, a bibliophile, a lover of nature, and currently resides on a campground in New Brunswick on the other side of the Miramichi with, as he puts it, “his growing tribe of people and pets on a peaceful river in New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula.”
You can find all his books via his website, authorchristophersweet, including the aforementioned Something Sweet and his latest, The Orchid Room.
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