Press

Feedback and what some authors have said about TickleScratch Productions and our series:

FEEDBACK FROM THE AUTHORS 

"One of a kind."
Ania Szado, author of Beginning Of Was

"What a lovely experience, great to do something with such grace & detailed examination, what a privilege!"
Nikita Lalwani, author of Gifted

"What a great interview. Thanks so much."
Karen Connelly, Governor General Literary Award Winner

"Wonderful interview."
Joseph Boyden, Amazon First Novel Award Winner

"A man with excellent questions."
Keith Maillard, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Winner

PRESS FEEDBACK: 

"Very intelligent series...blessedly pretense-free..."
Andrew Ryan, Television review for Globe and Mail
about the series 'THE WRITING LIFE'

“Excellent Series"
TV Guide
about the series 'THE WRITING LIFE'

"Bravo! to The Artist's Life"  
Peter Goddard, Visual Art Critic for the Toronto Star
About the series “THE ARTIST'S LIFE’

BLOG FEEDBACK:

“Now why can't they show this on Bravo U.S.? Because we'd definitely tune in. You know what suckers we are for witty dialogue.”
Writer’s Blog at The Writers Write Lifestyle Network
blog post titled 'When Writers Confess Their Darkest Secrets’ - Posted on September 6, 2006
http://www.writerswrite.com/wblog.php?wblog=906061
about the series ‘WRITERS' CONFESSIONS’

“This past week I saw an episode of TickleScratch Production's The Writing Life featuring Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. (The Writing Life is a wonderful series, giving a candid look into the lives of Canadian writers.)”
Posted by Ami on her Blog site:
Incidental Pieces -a writer's life
Blog Title –‘i hear a symphony’ - July 09, 2005
http://amimckay.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-hear-symphony.html

“Most Thursday nights you'll find me in front of the tv watching The Writing Life and Writers' Confessions on Bravo. I never get tired of listening to novelists and poets talk about their writing stations, the approach they take to their work, or the idiosynchratic behaviour specific to writers.”
By Valerie Bean
On her blog site:
People, Places and Things:
Valerie Bean on Contemporary (Sub)urban Life
Blog post title: The secret to writing successful fiction -December 30, 2007
http://durhamregion.typepad.com/people/2007/12/most-thursday-n.html
about the series 'WRITERS' CONFESSIONS'

“I’ve been enjoying a TV series called the Writing Life, and also Writers Confessions. All about writers and what inspires them to write.”
posted by Tulipman at 9:28 PM
From the Blog site: Writing Down The Blog: The writing Life of an Unpublished Writer
http://writingdowntheblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/my-writing-space.html
 

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:

GUELPH MERCURY –NEWSPAPER – November 09, 2007
By Joanne Shuttleworth
Article titled “Ken Danby Subject of Art Series”
http://news.guelphmercury.com/article/259392
about our series “THE ARTIST’S LIFE”

THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR - NEWSPAPER-  October 4, 2007
By Linda Jacobs, Special
Article titled: The Art of the Journey
http://www.thespec.com/go/journal/article/259048
about the Laura Hollick episode from the series “The Artist’s Life”

THE LONDON FREE PRESS - NEWSPAPER-  September 6, 2006
by Kathy Rumleski
Article titled: London writers 'confess' on Bravo television series
http://lfpress.ca/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?p=154071&s=books
about London writers Joan Barfoot and Emma Donoghue from the series “Writers' Confessions”