News:
May 2005 - Leaving Wyoming will be a "Take A Joy Read" selection for July/August, and is Brockville, Ontario's choice for "One Book, One Community" to be held this October.
April 2005
- The Ontario Arts Council awards Robillard
with a "Works-in- Progress" grant for his third novel, tentatively titled
Slouching Toward Paardeberg.
March 2005
- Robillard signs a second book deal
with Turnstone Press. Houdini's Shadow is slated for publication
in the Fall of 2006.
February 2005
- Leaving Wyoming has been long-listed for the Fifth Annual
*ReLit Award for Best Novel. Short lists will be published in May,
winners announced in June.
*The ReLit Awards (short for "Regarding Literature,
Reinventing Literature, Relighting Literature" ) celebrate books published
by independent Canadian literary publishers.
Trade Paperback | Turnstone Press 2004 | ISBN 0-88801-301-9 |
$18.95CAD (Now in its 2nd printing)
This beautiful debut novel seamlessly interweaves fact and fiction – history and legend – to produce an alluring story of violence, adventure and love in the last days of the Wild West.
Praise for Wyoming:
“...a sensory precision that only writing -- spurring the reader's inner creation -- can achieve .... Robillard's prose is assured .... vividly evoking the sprawling frontier landscape, the sweat and funk of fugitive men and their ruthlessly driven horses .... Leaving Wyoming is a case of the word
transcending 1,000 pictures.”
- Jim Bartley, Globe & Mail
“...ageless...alluring...adventurous...recapturing the Wild West, while at the same time creating its own history -- the story of Ewan “Wyoming” McGinnis.”
- Samantha Cater, The Charlatan
Praise for Robillard's writing:
Robillard writes about "temptation,
deliverance, and memory ... with beguiling calmness and clarity."
- Mark Frutkin, author of Iron Mountain
“...the multi-sensory evocation
of atmosphere and texture ... clear, controlled and convincing with
crisp imagery and an assured sense of cadence."
- Christopher Levenson, author of Duplicities
“...good moody stories..."
- George Elliot Clarke, author of Execution Poems
"...haunting ... resonates
with beauty ... classic in the poetic sense and yet extremely modern
... leaves you with a feeling of almost betrayal yet also acceptance
... [writing] that realizes its potential from the biting opening line.”
T. Anders Carson, author of Folding the Paper Crane
