Winner of the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction

Lansing Meadows has one last shot to get it right. With the clock ticking, he sets out on the road one last time, to sing his songs to anyone who’ll listen, and to try to right his wrongs, before it’s too late.

Fallsy Downsies is a novel about aging, art, celebrity and modern Canadian culture, told through the lens of Lansing Meadows, the godfather of Canadian folk music; Evan Cornfield, the up and comer who idolizes him; and Dacey Brown, a young photographer who finds herself along for the ride.

I grew up in Mississauga, Ontario and lived there till I came to my senses and moved to downtown Toronto, where I lived till I REALLY came to my senses and moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ahhh, that’s better.I started writing soon as I figured out how to hold a pencil. I have done very little in the way of developing other skills, though I am reasonably good at talking on the radio, and I am a pretty great cook.I wrote Homing in November 2003 for NaNoWriMo…actually, I took on the challenge for a radio story for CBC’s Definitely Not the Opera. I was working there at the time, my colleagues liked my pitch, I experienced a brief moment of triumph before the head-splitting realization set in that, god damn it, I was going to have to write a novel.I procrastinated, blardy blardy blah, ended up writing several tens of thousands of words in about three days near the end of November, ended up with a finished, but flawed manuscript, and spent the next few years alternately polishing and ignoring it.Then along came Robbie from Invisible Publishing with an offer to make it into a book, and that was that.Homing won the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award in 2008. I had such an outer body experience when they called my name, I didn’t even turn to look at, let alone kiss, my husband. I just bolted for the podium to accept my award. Because I am all class.I am working on another novel. It’s called Fallsy Downsies, and it’s about a bunch of singer songwriters who end up spending a lot of time crammed in a car, heading west. It’s loads of fun to write, when I get around to it.Homing was optioned by Lady Hammond Entertainment in spring 2009, and I am writing the screenplay. I sound so confident when I put it that way, don’t I?

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• Winner, Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction

"This book is delightful... I likedthis bookso much that I immediately went to the library to get her first book, Homing."—Consumed by Ink

“Domet’s aptly titled novel… is a tender portrayal of aging and an entertaining, compassionate story of an unlikely crew negotiating fraught and complicated friendships and finding meaning in each other.”—Quill & Quire

“A humourous commentary on the social, physical and musical Canadian landscape. It is a love letter to music and an insightful exploration of art as performance, but it is ultimately about the bravery required for personal and artistic perseverance in an unappreciative world.”—The Coast

“An intimately drawn portrait and an important addition to the Canadian cultural imagination.”—Atlantic Books Today

“By the time I finished reading this book I was not only a little in love with Domet’s characters, but with the writer herself. You will be too…”—Andrew Kaufman, author of All My Friends Are Superheroes

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