Look, there’s going to be some stories here that deal with wizards, then there might be a story that deals with astronauts. The important thing is, what ties these stories together is that they all revel in the musicality of words, and celebrate imagination.

Burton lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland, with an artsy and beautiful library missus, and a fuzzy, foul-mouthed, four-legged intern.

Hang around long enough and he will somehow steer the conversation to stories of the seven years he spent tree planting and brushing in Ontario and B.C., and then have some nice things to say about his clients’ books.

Also, in 2011 he won the Percy Janes First Novel Award, and in 2017 was a finalist in The Writers of the Future contest, and took part in WANL’s Spring Tides Reading Series.