Kate Inglis's Blog, page 15
March 30, 2010
he likes it: he really, really likes it
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My heart stopped, and I looked away before I was spotted, before my attention brought any sort of self-consciousness to the scene upon which I had stumbled. I had gotten this book for Graham. He had said, upon receiving it 'Oh, cool,' and redirected what small part of his attention he had used to respond to me back to whatever he was doing- much more interesting. Obviously.
But here he was, sitting at the kitchen table with his usual shades-of-tan dinner and...wait, what's that in his hand...
February 23, 2010
as un-piratey as it is to have a plan, behold: The Dread Crew in 2010
Within six weeks of the book's release, the Nimbus warehouse was emptied of first editions. Copies of The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods can still be found on shelves at Canadian retailers such as Chapters.ca, Amazon.ca and your local indie bookstore, but call ahead first to confirm stock.
The distribution plan for 2010 is a three-step release that frees the last of the sumptuous hardcovers and rolls out the new, special-edition softcover first in Canada, then in the States. But...
January 25, 2010
the dread crew reaches scotland, 'entrances'
The Dread Crew is a children's book, but like all the best children's books, that means that adults can ostensibly buy it for someone else and read it themselves on the sly.
The book as a whole was...... I find it hard to pinpoint the precise, correct word. Entrancing, I think is closest. I would not want to even try to describe the plot, involving as it does exceptionally smelly pirates, a fearsome wood ship, peacocks and goats locked in low-key warfare, an adventurous, talented and...
January 12, 2010
talking pirates and process with haligonia.ca
My hair was totally electrified with winter static and I'd just stumbled in from a two-ton plate of pad thai and I was all breathy and felt weird but here it is, the first interview with local online news site Haligonia. Do I seem all serious? Christ. I think I do. I was trying to be proper. The outcome of that might be you falling asleep, but hey. Watch this if you're suffering from restless leg syndrome and it's keeping you up. And please excuse the part where it almost sounds like I call m...
spinoff effect
When The Dread Crew came in the mail, Dustan snatched it up before I could. And since then I haven't gotten to it. But I know it will rock my world because here's Dustan's review:
D: Hey, I finished Kate's book, Pirates In the Woods.
(I know. I can't get him to reprogram. Your title just got Americanized.)
B: The Dread Crew? How was it?
D: Ok. I have this idea. Are you ready for this? We are going to do this... this Scavenger Hunt for our kids, it will be a story, except it will be...
January 11, 2010
twobusy, happy
I ordered my copy of @SweetSalty's book when it came out in Canada last fall, but only got around to starting it about a week ago... and now, I wish I could go back and read for the first time again. Why? Because about 2/3 of the way in, I suddenly found myself filled with something that felt very much like joy — actively grinning from ear to ear as I made my way through the passage in which these backwoods pirates and the normal, everyday folk of Nova Scotia finally come face-to-face...
December 22, 2009
January Magazine says it likes The Dread Crew, and we didn't even have to goop them first.
Kate Inglis' The Dread Crew is a good book -- sure it is, and we'll get to that in a moment. But before you ever experience the story, you see that it really is a pretty book. One I think my father might have selected for me, with all the other circumstances being right. There's something lasting and promising and deliciously old-timey about the cover and binding of The Dread Crew. And that's all right, because Inglis and her band of merry men deliver on all of those promises.
The Dread...
