Storycrafting Sessions 2023 I’m very pleased to be part of Storycrafting Sessions 2023. It’s a remarkable endeavour, with lots of great panels and panelists, all tailored to make for an excellent writer’s event, and all of it free. I’m part of the Point of View session. Have a gander at the details below and sign up. We are thrilled to announce the full schedule for our first virtual conference of 2023, Storycrafting Sessions: Drafting! As…
The main news The main news is I’ve released Caliban in audiobook on Google Play. Why is this remarkable news when I already have Caliban available in audio at Audible, Amazon, Apple and Kobo? It’s remarkable because it would appear Google no longer accepts narration outside of their AI narration service. Perhaps I’m mistaken and completely missed where I’d be able to upload my own files. But no matter at this point, because I took…
When a service isn’t exactly a service Anyone involved in the publishing industry will tell you there’s just so much to know, and that knowledge has been changing rapidly from the beginning of the 21st century. Now, it seems, I’ve stumbled across another bit of knowledge which has left me surprised. When ebooks were first becoming a thing, there were only a few ways in which a reader could obtain them, quite aside from the…
All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac My rating: 2 of 5 stars Brian Thomas Isaac’s debut novel comes with a long list of awards and almosts: Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize A National Bestseller Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards’ Published Prose in English Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022 An…
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi My rating: 3 of 5 stars Joshi creates an interesting story about a young woman’s struggle to find a place in the restrictive and classist society of India. The author deals sensitively, and in the end devastingly, with herbal preventative contraception tisanes, the moral and societal landmines which explode in the heroine’s life, and the destruction of her livelihood which had been primarily as a henna artist of great…