Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Bernard Sauve
Michael Scott Curnes
BIO
Biography

Michael Scott Curnes is an award-winning American Canadian author. To Pay Paul is his fifth published fiction novel and is considered a sequel to his Green Book Award-winning novel, For the Love of Mother (2011). He is currently working on a new novel titled, Simpleman (his 6th, set to be published in early 2026). Michael Scott Curnes lives with his husband in Victoria, British Columbia.
 

Published Novels: To Pay Paul, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-7772988-5-2; Wicked Ninnish, 2020 ISBN: 978-1-7772988-0-7; Coping with Ash, 2017 ISBN: 10-1629014605; For the Love of Mother, ISBN: 978-1-7772988-2-1; VAL, ISBN: 1-885487-19-3.

Anthologies: Living Artfully, Reflections from the Far West Coast, ISBN: 10-1926780140 Contributing Writer to this anthology. Writing the West Coast: In Love With Place, ISBN: 10-1-55380-055-9 Contributing Writer to this anthology

Newspapers, Magazines The Globe and Mail, Feature Columnist, June 25, 1996, “Facts and Arguments” The Sound Magazine, Feature Writer 1998-2001UpBeat!, Feature WriterVictoria Times Columnist, Feature Columnist August 10, 2003

 

ADDRESS
City: Victoria, Province/Territory: British Columbia
EMAIL
GENRE
Fiction, LGBTQ+
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
To Pay Paul
Publisher
Downwind Press
Year
2022
Title
Wicked Ninnish
Publisher
Downwind Press
Year
2020
Title
Coping with Ash
Publisher
Inkwater Press
Year
2017
Title
For the Love of Mother
Publisher
Inkwater Press
Year
2011
Title
Val
Publisher
Brownell & Carroll
Year
1996
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Royal Dragonfly Book Awards Fiction Winner
Publication
Wicked Ninnish
Year
2020
Name
Royal Dragonfly Book Awards Fiction Winner
Publication
Coping with Ash
Year
2017
Name
Green Book Awards Fiction Winner
Publication
For the Love of Mother
Year
2011
Name
Independent Book Publishers Bronze Medal
Publication
For the Love of Mother
Year
2017
Name
New Apple Book Awards Fiction Winner
Publication
Coping with Ash
Year
2017
Name
Royal Dragonfly Book Award Fiction Winner
Publication
To Pay Paul
Year
2022
Name
Royal Dragonfly Book Award Green Book / Environment Winner
Publication
To Pay Paul
Year
2022
Name
Royal Dragonfly Book Award LGBTQ2+ Winner
Publication
To Pay Paul
Year
2022
LINKS
Links
Author Website
Publisher Imprint
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