If you're a fan of Alan Doyle, you'll love and appreciate most of the stories in this book as it serves as the backdrop for a tv series that was never meant to be. Vickie Morgan had been making films and public access tv shows for years when a broadcaster trying to spend their sports budget waltzes into St. John's, Newfoundland during the pandemic (properly masked over Zoom calls of course) and offers Vickie the gig of a lifetime.

How to Fail at Documentary Filmmaking is a hilarious and poignant story that will give you the courage and compassion necessary to understand the problem probably isn't you.

"Couldn’t put it down! Great summer read, companion book for creatives or entrepreneurs. Vicki Morgan’s rip roaring memoir about her dizzy tenure as an east coast filmmaker is an excellent portrait of the fraught cultural landscape that is Canadian entertainment- the limited government grants and arcane media monopolies that stall the creative spirit of so many Canadian artists are all plainly laid out in Morgan’s matter of fact, elegant prose. This book is a fascinating look at the limits an artist will go to make their art and a hilariously savage dissection of the sad state of Canadian entertainment production. I read this in one night can’t wait to read more from this one of a kind, refreshing author."

~ Hannah Hogan

"Wow, Vickie’s determination has to be admired. She'll mow her own path, she's a trooper."

~ Tina Maddigan, author of Written in Stone

"How To Fail At Documentary Filmmaking: a novelization of the unfinished docu-series adapted from an idea for a book based on true events." ~ Josh Morgan, lives with Vickie, read the book four times