Birch's path to self-publishing was a bit of an experiment itself. Following his M.F.A. program, he was working on writing literary fiction, but realized that he wasn't engaging readers: “I had a really poor intuitive grasp of storytelling basics…. I decided to spend a few weeks writing a very light, fast-paced
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The book draws on current debates about the extent of intelligence powers and their implications for accountability, privacy, and human rights. It examines the foreign and security policy of other small states through the prism of Scottish independence, providing unique insight into the bureaucratic and
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“One was by a friend from the CBC (Georgie Binks) and so I called her and she told me about self-publishing and said I should write. I said 'How? I have no idea how to write fiction' and she said to just sit down for three or four hours and start writing and see what came out. A few hours later I had two
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