Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Tara chats with Emily Weedon, a Canadian author and screenwriter, currently living in Toronto. Her web series Chateau Laurier was the most awarded web series in 2023 and won a Canadian Screen Award. Her debut novel Autokrator reimagines gender and power in society against the backdrop of a dystopian world. Her new novel, Hemo Sapiens, will be released into the world on September 30, 2025 from Dundurn Press. It is an erotic noir thriller that reimagines vampires through a lens of female sexuality and anthropology.
 
 

Books mentioned for Currently Reading:

The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgård
The Problem with Having a Body by Jessica Popeski
All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety by David A. Robertson
Runs in the Blood by Matthew J. Trafford

toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca
 
emilyweedon.com
instagram.com/emily.weedon.creates

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