About

I’m K Sawyer Paul, a designer and writer living in Toronto.

email: ksawyerpaul at outlook.com

Podcasts

Semi-Active Podcasts

Fran’s Not Here is a show about Toronto, co-hosted by Sawyer Paul and Robert Pilgrim. Read blog posts about each episode. The show is hosted at Anchor, where you can subscribe however you want.

You Chose Poorly is a tech podcast about being wrong, co-hosted by Mikey Llorin. Read blog posts about each episode. Subscribe via RSS, iTunes, Overcast, Pocketcasts, and Soundcloud. Listen to older episodes on Mixcloud. The show is hosted at Anchor.

International Object is a podcast about pro wrestling and its place in popular culture. Read blog posts about each episode. Listen to older episodes on Mixcloud.

Retired Podcasts

The Gredunza Reading Series was an interview podcast for authors and podcasters. Shows were all recorded between 2009-13.

#Chris&Kyle was a show with myself and Chris Tsujiuchi. It ran 16 episodes between 2011-13.

Soundloading is a music video and audio series from 2008. Unfortunately, all episodes of this show have been lost.

Books

Books you can have and read

I Know Your Real Name Now - Part 1, rough draft

If you read this, please let me know what you think. The story is still in development.

My Lover’s Phone - Short Story

A short story in four parts, detailing failed relationships and accompanying technology.

A Record Year for Rainfall - Short Novel

The story takes place in modern Las Vegas in the summer of 2010. The main character, Bret, works as a paparazzi for a successful celebrity blogger. He’s sent out on assignments and generally finds himself in comedically awkward situations with models, actresses, and bodyguards. As the story begins, Bret has recently outed the governor of Nevada as a gay man, which causes a huge uproar, loads of traffic for the website, and a shift in priorities both for Bret (who just wants to go home to Canada), and Album, the blogger, who sees this as a way into proper journalism. The story is about Bret finding where he stands; with his two ex-girlfriends, his job, his desire to leave. On top of that, another photographer is following him around, possibly working for the governor, making Bret’s life dangerous and difficult.

No Chinook - Short Novel

Scott Clarkson is a young and often fragile journalist, whose mid-twenties have yet to produce a clear distinction between dependency and love. Dissatisfied by his current relationship—a complicated and secretive affair with a charismatic art teacher—Scott uses a chance encounter with an old high school crush as an escape to a place where desire and affection can be confused, and gratification replaces trust. Removed from the life and circumstances that have kept him emotionally stunted, Scott’s understanding of love loses balance and he discovers that maturity and pain are not exclusive.

You can listen to the “soundtrack” on Spotify.

Writing project history

Novels

I Know Your Real Name Now — 2018

Skypunch — 2015

A Record Year for Rainfall —2012

No Chinook — 2008

International Object

The Heart is Raw Season 1 - 2014

Fair to Flair — 2011

This is Sports Entertainment — 2010

Short Stories

The Moonbow Easy — 2014

My Lover’s Phone — 2013

Corona Gale Part 1 — 2013

Not One of Us Not Broken — 2009

Chocolate Castle By the Sea — 2006

Inside Pulse Music Columns — 2004

Kisses in All The Right Places, music & lyrics — 2005

Everything We Haven’t Lost — 2005

My Music Will Move You — 2003

The Mackenzie Hotel — 2002

Kayfabe — 2001