Murder in the Margins, a novel

First Edition: Under the pseudonym Donovan A. Landers, this novel was previously published as Margins (serialized in Academic Exchange Extra [University of Northern Colorado], 2005 [March to November]).

Part of this novel was serialized in The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education ([Quesnel, BC] September 2013 to February 2014).

Second Edition: LukivPress (Quesnel, BC), 2014; published as The Fringe: Confessions of a Secondary Alternate Teacher.

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022; published as Murder in the Margins.

Editorial Note

Hold on for a wild ride, dear reader, as you enter the world of troubled students marginalized by a school system that doesn’t quite know what to do with them. Dramatic conflict and bizarre adventures-these elements fill every chapter.

The author

Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada’s Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA’s Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England’s D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer’s Digest University (novel writing program).