Renee Angers didn’t start scratching her creative itch by writing fiction.
Angers started out as a vocalist for a heavy metal cover band in the mid-eighties, progressing to bassist for a hardcore punk act later that decade, onward to bassist and co-composer for an alternative band in the early nineties, and finally, headed up her own band as vocalist/bassist/guitarist/composer in 1999. It was also in 1999 when Angers picked up a pen to write a song, but it ended up transforming into her first novel “Wasted Land”. Since that time, Angers has written 8 novels–5 of which are published–as well as expanded into the birth mother of the alternative literary e-zine New Graffiti, and writing non-fiction informative and review pieces on staff for publications such as Upfront and Vox magazines.
Still not satisfied, she recently launched her own publishing company; Brainpan Publishing–Canadian publisher of daringly stylistic literature. It was her displeasure with what the industry was publishing that forced her to take matters into her own hands. “There are authors out there being ignored because the masses don’t want to have to think, so their brilliance remains unpublished,” she states. “This generation is so lazy and needs everything spelled out for them so a monkey could understand it. They want mindless entertainment, and they want it NOW! I’m one of those that has the insatiable need to keep what is intelligent and deserving, alive.”