Peter Darbyshire
{{short description|Canadian journalist, blogger and author|bot=PearBOT 5}}
Peter Darbyshire is a Canadian journalist, blogger and author."Resistance is futile; But Vancouver novelist Peter Darbyshire does his best in satire on consumerism". Edmonton Journal, July 11, 2010. An editor and journalist with Canadian newspaper The Province and a self-published blogger and cartoonist,{{cite news|last1=Barmak|first1=Sarah|title=When the revolution comes|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/review-the-warhol-gang-by-peter-darbyshire/article1390076/|accessdate=19 February 2017|publisher=The Globe and Mail|date=21 May 2010}} he has published literary fiction under his own name and fantasy literature under the pen name Peter Roman."Sacrifice writer Roman skilled and unhinged". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, August 3, 2013.
He won the ReLit Award for fiction in 2003 for his novel Please."Darbyshire wins award for debut novel". Ottawa Citizen, June 24, 2003.
Works
=Standalone works and short stories=
Includes standalone stories, novelettes, and novellas.
- Please (2003, {{ISBN|978-1-551-92562-2}})
- The Warhol Gang (2010, {{ISBN|978-1-554-68076-4}})
- I'd Never Been Shot for Real Before (2014, ASIN: B00L9KZ726)"Why I took the e-book route". Ottawa Citizen, March 20, 2011.
- Has the World Ended Yet? Takes to Astonish (2017)
=Book of Cross series=
Writing as Peter Roman.
- The Mona Lisa Sacrifice (2013, {{ISBN|978-1-771-48145-8}})
- The Dead Hamlets (2015, {{ISBN|978-1-771-48316-2}})"Followup another Cross to bear; Darbyshire's big dumb fun book is actually whip smart". Vancouver Sun, March 7, 2015.
- The Apocalypse Ark (2016, {{ISBN|978-1-771-48377-3}})"Once more into the depths; Peter Roman is back, and so is his anti-hero Cross". Vancouver Sun, March 19, 2016.
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://peterdarbyshire.com/}}
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