About the Author

Chad Pelley is an award-winning author, songwriter, and photographer from St. John's, Newfoundland. His debut novel, Away from Everywhere, was a Coles bestseller, won NLAC's CBC Emerging Artist of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for both the ReLit Award and the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Artist of the Year Award. It has been adopted by university courses, and is currently being adapted for film. His short fiction has been published in journals, textbooks, anthologies, and has been recognized by close to ten awards. Chad is the founder of Salty Ink, President of the Writers Alliance of Newfoundland & Labrador, and writes for a variety of publications, including Quill & Quire, The National Post, and Atlantic Books Today. As a result, he rarely sees more of the world than his computer screen, and his hottest one-night stands happen in his own bed, with books of Canadian fiction.

Reviews

Chad Pelley's "Every Little Thing" is a compelling ride that shows that even the unexpected leaves clear footprints. With finely-drawn characters that live and breathe and clearly feel, it's a marriage of wistful and wonderful, spiced with a sharp dash of the realities that we all face in life. It's bare honesty, played hard. - Russell Wangersky, author of Whirl Away - 20130121

Every Little Thing's protagonist, Cohen Davies, is as psychologically rich and prismatic a character as any reader could hope for - here is complicated love, human failing, tenacity and true feeling. Chad Pelley takes on addling jealousy, heartache, loss, and the need to be forgiven. Stylistically fresh, taut with emotional torques and charges, Pelley's Every Little Thing is can't-put-it-down compelling. - - Lisa Moore, author of February and Alligator - 20130128

From the cold clutch of a prison cell to the serenity of a lover's arms and back again, this is the tale of a man whose pugnacious heart is both literally and figuratively broken. In Every Little Thing Chad Pelley delivers a transfixing chronicle of what happens when devotion and jealousy ride alongside a clumsy desire for a just world. Compulsively readable from start to finish. - Billie Livingston, author of One Good Hustle and Cease to Blush - 20130114