ECW Press: Bad Ideas (ePub)

Missy Marston's first novel, The Love Monster, was the winner of the 2013 Ottawa Book Award, a finalist for the CBC Bookie Awards and the Scotiabank Giller Prize Readers' Choice. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

"This novel of working class women and the men they let into their lives is like a small town: both tough and soft. These strong, funny, and intense characters have unique and deep-seated ideas about love and family, have dreams that are big enough. Marston writes with love and verve. InBad Ideaspeople take life as it comes, and think those bad ideas are probably going to play out just fine.” — Dina Del Bucchia, author ofDon't Tell Me What to Do

"I’d follow Missy Marston’s writing anywhere, even off an ill-conceived launch ramp across the St. Lawrence River in a rocket-car. InBadIdeas, she tells a story with hard edges, humour, and so much tenderness, affirming her place as one of Canada's funniest and original writers.” — Kerry Clare, author ofMitzi Bytes

"An astonishing, funny, and beautiful book. It’s full of terrible, lovable, broken people doing their best to find happiness wherever they can — in fast cars, booze, or in the arms of the right-but-wrong person. It's about the parts of ourselves that remain underwater in the murk and the bits we choose to showcase. It’s about what it means to love the wrong people — the broke stunt driver, the married man, the absent mother. Always illuminating and never sentimental,Bad Ideasis an honest look at what it means to dream big in a small town. Oh, and there’s a surprise ending that’s absolutely glorious.” —New York Timesbestselling authorJenniferMcCartney

"An unusual story of both familial and romantic love, the strange dreams humans have, and the cost and benefits of loyalty.” — Kirkus Reviews