In The Globe and Mail Andrew Nicoll, author of The Good Mayor, recounts how his former agent urged him to pose as a woman in order to sell his novel.
I am a bloke of the brick-outhouse variety, a little over 6 foot tall and a little under 280 pounds. In my youth I played a bit of rugby – which is like football but without the helmets. I am a heterosexual man with a 16-colour default setting, completely unable to tell cerise from fuschia; I couldn’t find “rose-whisper” on a colour chart with the aid of a sat-nav.