Double Yay!
This just in…
Oh, what a feeling to open an email with this wonderful and exciting news! A flash fiction (under 1,000 word fiction story) is moving on to the finalist round! Many thanks to Karen R and Penny-Anne B for sharing this very cool writing website ‘Women on Writing’ to me…I’ve been submitting consistently, and this is my first finalist possibility! I’ll let you know what happens…!
I’ll be at Devonshire Mall Indigo with CM Forest, Elly Blake and Ben Van Dongen for an engaging author panel and meet & greet! Now…I know that we’re all very committed to supporting local businesses, including our favourite bookshops, but I can tell you that this Indigo is selling my books on consignment which means a) this is a way I can sell out-of-print books at the store and b) I have the opportunity to make money if the book(s) sells in the store. At the ‘local’, on-the-ground level, both this Chapters/Indigo and the Lakeshore Indigo have been very supportive of local writers. The management is inviting and helpful, and they have always said yes to book signings. So, I’m grateful for this! Hope to see you there!
And one more thing…
Thank you to Mary-Jo R for introducing me to May Sarton, poet, novelist, essayist, and diarist.
I’m reading ‘Journal of a Solitude’ and it’s killing me ever so softly. Sarton’s words are tearing open my heart and crawling inside. Oof. It’s incredible.
I also just finished…
A wild jaunt into several mysteries threaded together via drawings….very cool.
And I’m reading…
This is the latest instalment from brilliant Canadian writer, Jane Christmas. She’s writing under a pseudonym for this fiction masterpiece: Elizabeth Braithwaite. Please take a minute to visit Jane’s website and find out why she decided to use a pseudonym...and self-pub after decades of success in the traditional publishing world. Jane and I go waaaay back. I interviewed her when I was writing for The Lance student newspaper at the University of Windsor (circa 1999/2000!). We became fast friends, and she’s been a light in my writing career for decades, including working with me on a mentorship! Thank you, Jane!
And…I also finished this….
A stunning, heartbreaking, profound fictionalization about Peggy Guggenheim, extraordinary woman ahead of her time! This book is written by Canadian writer Rebecca Godfrey, who passed away before the book was published…so a collective of friends with Leslie Jamison at the helm, finished the book posthumously. I swear, Rebecca’s soul is woven into each bit of ink in each word in every book. I held this story to my heart for a long time when I finished reading…feeling the loss of a brilliant writer…and the power of legacy in storytelling that books give us.
What are you reading?
