Amazing #bookgiveaways this week for our members! 49thshelf.com/Giveaways ECW Press Inanna Publications @NeWestPress Douglas & McIntyre @_secondstory

Hey did we mention that it's The Word On The Street THIS SUNDAY? Get in the #WOTS spirit w/ the amazing Lezlie Lowe (she/her) - inactive, Rabindranath Maharaj & Merilyn Simonds, who are reading at the #VibrantVoices stage & told us about their books, fave WOTS memories & more open-book.ca/News/Ontario-s… #Sept23

Thanks Steven Buechler — happy to sign both books! Looking forward to seeing you manana.

Lovely event @wots with @heidisopinka. Thanks Jael Ealey Richardson for great moderating!

It was a pleasure to not only meet Merilyn Simonds yesterday at The Word On The Street but to see her hand glide over my copy of GUTENBERG'S FINGERPRINT and sign with a fountain pen: For Steven, With admiration and appreciation for all you do for books. Merilyn Simonds ECW Press

The pleasure was mine, Steven

I just finished Sandra Gulland new novel Game of Hope. I was spellbound, as will everyone with a special love for the Josephine trilogy. Sandra shows us Napoleonic France through the unique perspective of Josephine's young daughter Hortense. Enthralling!

You can run, little icon-man, but you can't hide...#streetsigns

Photographs uncompromisingly honest, yet poetic—Reva Brooks' mid-century portraits eerily match those of the heroine of my novel Refuge. “Had I heard about her —or tapped into some female-photographer truth?” lithub.com/at-the-interse… Literary Hub ECW Press bit.ly/2OEyyJp

In my novel Refuge, Cassandra MacCallum—a Canadian nurse in Mexico—is called upon to photograph a neighbour's daughter, who has died. I stared at Reva’s portrait of the dead child: this was the picture I had imagined Cassandra taking. bit.ly/2OEyyJp ECW Press Literary Hub

"Refuge is bejewelled by fine writing...in terms of structure and imagery, it is a marvel." Little pleases more than a well-written, thoughtful, insightful review. Thank you debra martens and CanadaNY Canadian Writers Abroad canadianwritersabroad.com/2018/09/12/ref… ECW Press

Friyay!! Hoarder Penny's #FridayReads is Refuge by Merilyn Simonds ECW Press It's already shaping up to be an excellent reading experience. Looking forward to spending the weekend with it.

How Long Should It Take to Write a Book? ow.ly/zXBX30m6BHx Merilyn Simonds Jane Friedman #wkb31

Toronto Star calls Merilyn Simonds's 18th novel, REFUGE, a "story that sweeps through the last century and around the globe, deeply engaged with the natural world, history and our human ties, one to another . . . bracing and beautiful." thestar.com/entertainment/…

"Twitterific" from Elizabeth S Craig & Mike Fleming : bit.ly/2AwfUvy Tom Blunt Signature Merilyn Simonds Jane Friedman

And here I thought I was the only slow-mo writer out there! Jane Friedman Carla Douglas buff.ly/2CTWRNf #NaNoWriMo

Wow. Thank you @RoBattigelli. Tweets like this keep a writer going.

So much fun cooking all these drinks, appies, bread, soups, salads, mains, especially desserts. Ten lbs gained for PIBO Pelee Heritage Centr. Birdfeed Contest: Find birds embedded in menus. Great prizes! pibo.ca/en/2020-pibo-v…

Hello spring! Rebirth of LitBits—tidbits from my writing desk and the world of books. buff.ly/3s6LRCY

Birds are back and so am I! New Books Unpacked on writing the lives of others buff.ly/3s8Elrn