(Talonbooks, 1975 pb; cover: “Dream with House, bed and Scraper” by Judith Lodge; photo by Betty Fairbank; I used the story “House” in Inside Stories II; Harcourt, 1987)
(signed Naiad Press pb, 1985; cover: Susannah L. Kelly)
Born in Plainfield, NJ, Jane (Vance) Rule (1931-2007) had dyslexia when she was young., but later became a successful writer. In 1964, she published Desert of the Heart about two lesbians who fall in love, but only after 22 rejections from publishers. She taught at UBC and then moved to Galiano Island for the rest of her life. She was inducted into the Order of BC (1998) and the Order of Canada (2007). Rule was a strong short story writer and I selected “A Television Drama”, “House”, and “You Cannot Judge a Pumpkin’s Happiness by the Smile Upon His Face” for inclusion in a few of my textbooks.