A Matter of Will short-listed for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction

Rod will be doing a reading and signing of A Matter of Will at LitLive on Sunday June 2^nd, 2019 in Hamilton at 7:30 pm at the Staircase Theatre, 27 Dundurn Street North. Call 905 529 3000 for more information.

Rod’s non-fiction short story, A Farewell to Steam, was featured in Latitude 46 Publishing’s latest anthology, 150 Years Up North And More, published in March 2018.

Rod is currently in the final editing stages of his second novel.

Telemarketing: The Bottom Rung

In the fall of 1996, while between theatre directing gigs, I was employed by a telemarketing call centre in Toronto to sell long distance phone packages to small businesses over the phone. During my eight month tour of duty I was indoctrinated into the high pressure world of telephone sales and the fight for survival in that wild and woolly call centre. It was an opportunity to meet and study the people who worked in those ridiculously stressful jobs which I equated with a military unit. The pressure was intense. You had to make 150 to 200 cold calls per day. You had to get at least three sales a day, five days a week, for a total of 15 sales a week to get your commission. If you fell short, if you got 14 sales, you didn’t get your commission. It was all or nothing. In order to hit your 15 sales there was pressure to slam (con a customer by switching their telephone service without their knowledge or authorization).

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Listen to this, from the CBC Radio show Morning North

Sudbury-based publishing company Latitude 46 will be launching five new books. One of them is by Rod Carley of North Bay. It will be his first novel. The title is “A Matter of Will”. Rod Carley joined us in studio for a chat about the book.

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A MATTER OF WILL ARRIVES!

A Matter of Will is released at Latitude 46 Publishing’s fall book launch at Verdicchio Ristorante in Sudbury. Big thanks to Heather Campbell & Laura Stradiotto.

ROD CARLEY ENTERTAINS THE ROOM

Rod reads from A Matter of Will at Latitude 46 Publishing’s fall book launch.

CBC RADIO GETS A TASTE OF A MATTER OF WILL

Markus Schwabe interviews Rod for CBC RADIO-SUDBURY’s “Morning North”.