![]() ![]() “It was part of an initiative to hire more women in the industry,” says Rogers. Rogers began her career for the CBC radio in 1980 when she was twenty-four. ![]() “Authors are very grateful for what she does for them,” says Juby. Susan Juby, Creative Writing and Journalism professor at Vancouver Island University (VIU) and author of the popular YA novel Alice I Think, was interviewed by Rogers when her first book got published. ![]() “I wasn’t promoting the book per se, but it may have happened along the way,” says Rogers. Rogers was originally asked by his publisher to celebrate Wagamese’s life and legacy and to pay tribute to his last novel to several literary events. When Rogers first interviewed Wagamese, she mispronounced his name, she rhymed Wagamese with wheezy something she calls the “Italian treatment.” That’s when they first became friends. “I’ve known Richard since 1994 and we were close friends,” she says. ![]() Rogers received the manuscript for Starlight in 2014 but did not read it until after his death in 2017. Richard Wagamese died in March 2017, aged 61, before finishing his last novel, Starlight. ![]()
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