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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
And if anyone has read "Hook's Pan" or "Dangerous and Unseemly" or "The WOlf at the End of the World," please let me know what you thought of them (I do not know any of these authors and some of these books are far down in the list, requiring you to hit, "see more results" more than once). In particular that last one (Wolf) has a quote by Charles De Lint so it caught my eye.)
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I have not actually read Douglas Smith's "The Wolf…", but I can tell you that he is one of Canada's most-awarded sfnal writers, with multiple nominations and wins for the Aurora, which is our top bilingual SF/Fantasy prize, equivalent to the Hugo/Nebula, as well as other awards, including a nomination for the US Campbell Award for Best New Writer back in the day.
Here's his
ISFDB entry, and the short story that TWATEOTW is based upon was a double Aurora finalist in both its French and English translations.
So if reading werewolf urban fantasy were my thing, I'd go ahead and buy his in the assurance that I'd at least be getting competent quality writing.
Smith has been an RAEBW participant in the past and you might perhaps have picked up some of his short stories free-with-coupon* during the yearly Smashwords sales. If not, he offers on his
direct-buy website store a coupon for your choice of one free short story (or a buy-1-get-1-free deal, or 50% off a short, depending on which offer you take) so you can try his writing before you buy. "Spirit Dance" is the one that got expanded into TWolf, by the way.
Hope this helps.
* Disclaimer: I did exactly that and bought his short story collection at a discount as well, mostly To Support A Canadian Author® (and also because it was going really cheap), but aside from sample skimming, have not actually gotten around to reading his works in full just yet. So YMMV.