Bury Your Horses Now Available in Audio Book Format

Bury Your Horses, the third book from Canadian novelist Dan Dowhal, is now available as an audio book from Apple Books. Find out what all the buzz about AI-narrated audio books is about. > Download the audio book here.

In this quirky story of self-discovery and deliverance, Shane “Bronco” Bronkovsky, a disgraced and vilified pro hockey goon, who is fleeing the angst and media spotlight of an on-ice tragedy, crashes his motorcycle in the Southern New Mexico desert, and finds his life entangled with the denizens of this hardscrabble piece of America.

Apple Books Canada picked Bury Your Horses as one of their Best Books for January 2020.

Writing of Bury Your Horses was made possible with financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts and Writers' Trust of Canada. The novel is being published by Dundurn Books of Toronto, one of the largest Canadian-owned book publishing companies.

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Short Biography

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Dan Dowhal, (rhymes with "howl" or "towel") is the author of three novels, Skyfisher and Flam Grub, and his most recent, Bury Your Horses published in January 2020 by Dundurn Press.

Born and raised in Toronto's Queen West district, Dan holds a Journalism degree from Ryerson University, where he also served as editor-in-chief of The Eyeopener weekly.

Dan currently lives in Dawson City, Yukon. He first came to the Klondike as Writer-in-Residence at Berton House in 2011. Away from the keyboard, he is the alpha male of a pack of sled dogs and also plays fourth-line winger for the Dawson City Gold Diggers.

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Bury Your Horses by Dan Dowhal
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Bury Your Horses

Print ISBN 978-1-459745-39-1
eBook ISBN 978-1-459745-41-4

View the Bury Your Horses book trailer on YouTube
For pro hockey goon Shane Bronkovsky things are going south.


Disgraced pro hockey enforcer Shane “Bronco” Bronkovsky crashes his motorcycle in the Southern New Mexico desert where, injured and helpless, he is robbed by mysterious passers-by. Rescued by Tammy DeWitt, Shane is taken to the hardscrabble ranch she runs with two other formerly-abused women, where his injuries are treated by the dodgy Doc Sanchez.

Shocked to discover the ranch raises rattlesnakes, Shane comes to relish the honest work and peace found there. His life becomes entangled with those of the local denizens, including the ranch’s children. A romance with Tammy develops, but Shane cannot escape his past. As his troubles catch up to him, Shane is drawn into the violent world of the Mexican drug cartels.

Through the lives he touches and the people he helps, Shane strives for redemption. Yet, even as he struggles to tame the demons within, and adjust to life away from the spotlight of professional sports, his past and present collide in an explosive climax.

Flam Grub by Dan Dowhal
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Flam Grub

Print ISBN 978-1-926577-41-8
eBook ISBN 978-1-926577-44-9
View the Flam Grub book trailer on YouTube

There's the name we're given,
and the name we make for ourselves.

Abused and withdrawn, the child of a troubled marriage, young Flam Grub takes refuge in books. When the latchkey kid instinctively gravitates to the bookstore beneath his family's flat, his obsession crystallizes as he falls under the tutelage of Page Turner, the shop's owner, and grows up as a lover of literature, and especially poetry.

Flam, however, carries the burden of a pathologically introverted nature, and the perceived shame of an unusual name that brings him nothing but abuse from his peers. As adulthood arrives, the angst-ridden and suicidal Flam must struggle to escape the netherworld of his own life.

This coming-of-age saga follows Flam as he attends vocational college to train as an undertaker, then enters the funerary profession as a wide-eyed neophyte. Hypersensitive and lonely, he pours his aching heart out into poetry, and fights to hold on. Thanks to his intelligence, decency, and spirituality, Flam bravely finds his way into the light — influenced by the characters he meets along the way.

Quirky, sometimes dark, sometimes funny, but ultimately uplifting, this book will have you rooting for the unforgettable Flam Grub.

Skyfisher, the novel by Dan Dowhal
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Skyfisher

Print ISBN 978-1-926577-06-7 
eBook ISBN 978-1-926577-18-0
Watch the Skyfisher book trailer on YouTube

Religion 2.0 just went viral.
Heaven help us.

Fleeing for his life, Brad Evans escapes Manhattan and hides in a trailer in the country. There he writes an exposé of Phasmatia, the world’s first great internet religion, and its megalomaniacal unholy messiah, Sky Fisher.

As one of the trio of ad men who created Phasmatia, Evans knows where all the skeletons are buried, and is ready to tell all—provided he manages to live long enough. His close friend and co-conspirator, Stan Shiu, whose technical genius helped spark the religion's rapid rise, has already been murdered by Sky Fisher's retinue of killer monks. Now they're searching for Evans.

The whistle-blower recounts the religion's genesis and its growth from a get-rich-quick Dot-Com scheme to the Next Big Thing that spreads like wildfire over the web … and the planet. He also exposes the corruption and power lust that festers at the top, even while his hope for a potential new era of spirituality and faith burns brightly.

The events in this gripping novel could well pop up on your computer screen tomorrow. Our wired age of social networks, virtual worlds, and media manipulation is examined in the context of humankind's timeless need for spiritual sustenance and divine hope.

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