Bella’s Bookshelves Reviews TRT

The average shelf-life for a book (even a bestseller) is a year, so it was awesome to find this review of This Ramshackle Tabernacle almost 2 years after its publication in June 2010. Steph VanderMeulen, over at Bella’s Bookshelves had this to say about TRT: __________ “This is a powerful book. It deserves much more attention than [...]

NEW Readings from the 2010 BMO Winterset Finalists

This past week was great and gut-wrenching experience for me. The great part was being nominated for the Winterset award and getting to hang out with fellow nominees Craig Francis Power and Russell Wangersky: two excellent writers shortlisted for their debut novels. It was awesome (and humbling) to be able to share the stage with them, hear them [...]

“This Ramshackle Tabernacle” Shortlisted for 2010 BMO Winterset Award

  Finalists Announced For 2010 BMO Winterset Award March 2, 2011 St. John’s, NL – The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council (NLAC) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2010 BMO Winterset Award are Samuel Thomas Martin, Craig Francis Power, Russell Wangersky. The award celebrates excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador writing. The winner will [...]

TRT Reviewed in the Christian Courier

Cathy Smith, a contributing editor with the Christian Courier, penned a fantastic review of This Ramshackle Tabernacle, which appeared in the November 8th edition of the newspaper. Check out the full review below! Or click here to read the review in PDF. (Reprinted with permission). __________________________________________________________ Here’s a word of advice. Don’t read this book while [...]

Writing about God and using the F-word

Just prior to the release of This Ramshackle Tabernacle I was invited to do a couple of guest posts for Salty Ink. One was on the thrill of a new book: about sunburning my eyes reading Michael Winter’s This All Happened on a beach in Spain while my manuscript was sent off to press. You can [...]

TRT featured on Arts East e-magazine

Stephen Patrick Clare, one of the guys behind Canada’s 100 Greatest Books  blog, has begun publishing Arts East, Atlantic Canada’s first and only monthly all-arts e-magazine! Arts East supports and celebrates the work of local and regional artists with feature articles, Q&A’s, profiles, guest columnists, reviews, event listings, etc.    And they have a spotlight on This Ramshackle Tabernacle in this months’ [...]

“Bloody Incarnations”: an excellent review of “This Ramshackle Tabernacle”

Here‘s a fantastic review in Comment of This Ramshackle Tabernacle! “The stories in Samuel Martin’s This Ramshackle Tabernacle (Breakwater Books, 2010) hinge on violence: a hammer flung into the woods, a baseball bat cracked against a skull, bullets ripping through metal teapots and unsuspecting skin. The violence is a rip in the surface of a world that [...]

This Ramshackle Book Tour 2010

Dear Readers, This Ramshackle Book Tour is about to kick off in grand homegrown style! That’s right, my first ever book tour! Check out the schedule below and see if there is a reading near you. Then bring all your family and friends out for a fun literary evening! (No, that’s not an oxymoron!) It won’t [...]

TRT Interview on CBC

Check out a podcasted interview about this This Ramshackle Tabernacle, with Angela Antle, host and producer of the CBC’s Weekend Arts Magazine (WAM), aired each weekend between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. in Newfoundland and Labrador. http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/nlwamgaloot_20100725_35870.mp3

NEW Video Trailer for “This Ramshackle Tabernacle”

Here is a fresh-off-the-press video trailer for This Ramshackle Tabernacle. The song, “Shekinah,” is an original by lyricist and musician Michael Minor and was composed specifically for the St. John’s launch of TRT. Layered over this fine folk song are images by photographer Jonathan Castellino and artist Marc Seguin, both previously featured here in Dark Art Cafe. So, grab a coffee. [...]