Gil Adamson: On Writing the Genre-Bender Award-winning author Gil Adamson shares how her novel took a thirteen-year, genre-bending journey to publication. Author: Gil Adamson is the critically acclaimed author of Ridgerunner, which won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail and the CBC. Her first novel, The Outlander, won the Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the ReLit Award, and the Drummer General’s Award. It was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, CBC Canada Reads, and the Prix Femina in France, longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and chosen as a