Momma's Got the Blues: Volume 196 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771837149)

Sherman's an author, playwright, singer/songwriter and former journalist and editor with The Gazette in Montreal. His checkered past includes stints as a screenwriter, CBC Radio producer and documentary film producer. A recovering gym rat, he writes for a blog he started: You're Going to Die. Live with it, shops, drinks coffee and watches tourists in the small Laurentian town in which he lives and consorts with his guitar nightly. He performs on occasion in the mountains and in Montreal. He likes to cook with his partner in a home they share surrounded by a forest of birch trees, to which he is allergic. For hobbies, he takes allergy meds and feeds carrots to the deer and suet to the woodpeckers. Previous publications include the play Have A Heart, the novel The Alcoholic's Daughter and a collection of essays on the decline of the newspaper biz, Fish Wrapped: True Confessions of Newsrooms Past.