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I grew up near Busby, Alberta on a farm. We were a book-loving family; parents and children read a lot. Stories were important. Almost as soon as I learned how to use a pencil, I started to write stories. Mrs. Wood, my grade 3 and 4 teacher, kept a special notebook in her classroom for the best stories. And I remember the thrill I had when I got to copy my first story into her book. I knew I wanted to be a writer. I’m the author of four books: Teaching Places (a memoir about the land), The Glorious Mysteries and Other Stories (short fiction), The Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning (a novel) and mostly recently a chapbook short story called The Bachelors and Widows Christmas Party. I’ve also published poetry and essays and am working on my first play. Parallel to my writing career, I have worked as a public policy advisor, project coordinator, editor, independent theologian, social worker, secretary, camp counsellor, and A&W carhop.

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Gas Giant Gambit releases on Sept. 16th.
On the 20th, I will be at the Oshawa Centre Indigo bookstore, in Oshawa, Ontario, signing copies from noon until they kick me out. If you're in southern Ontario, you should swing by!
I have swag to give away!

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Intro'ing the Canadian soldier character in my WWI scifi WIP, today. She's disguised herself as a man so she can get to the front to fight.
The very first thing she does on the page is drop the manuscript's first "fuck," then immediately apologizes for something else.

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As I mentioned last week, Mark A. Rayner and I will be launching Season Four of our podcast Re-Creative sometime in October. In preparation, I’m releasing previous episodes weekly via Substack.

This is the second episode of Re-Creative from our first season in which Mark and I talk about a hidden gem of Canadian speculative fiction, The Mermaid’s Tale by D. G. Valdron.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/mahoneyj/p/re-creative-dg-valdrons-the-mermaids?r=1wgmq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Re-Creative: D.G. Valdron’s The Mermaid’s Tale

Season 1, Episode 2

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Dear #bookstodon, I'm reading Alice Munro's "The Love of a Good Woman" and it's good. No surprise there, for me, since I've come across Munro before and she's always good for a slow burn short story.

What are you reading right now?

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Because of another glitch in the c.im matrix, I had had to postpone the post.
Book Challenge DAY 19: 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just #BookCovers.

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Because of a glitch in the c.im matrix, I had had to postpone the post.
Book Challenge DAY 17: 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just #BookCovers.

#20books #20books20days
#BookCover #CoverIllustration
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How Carley Fortune's buzzy romance books are making beloved Canadian locations seem ... sexy

BookNet Canada's research shows romance book sales in Canada jumped 54 per cent in 2022, and continue to climb. Most of the top-10 selling fiction books in Canada in 2023, according to BookNet Canada, were romance titles and #Romantasy, a #Genre that combines #Romance and fantasy. (Fortune's #MeetMeAtTheLake made their list, the only book by a Canadian author.)

All three of Fortune's books have been bestsellers, and in June last year, both of her previous titles were on the New York Times Bestsellers list at the same time.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/carley-fortune-books-1.7205925

How Carley Fortune's buzzy romance books are making beloved Canadian locations seem ... sexy | CBC News

The quaint, pastoral setting for Anne of Green Gables may not be what comes to mind when you imagine a steamy, sex-filled romance novel. But that's what bestselling author Carley Fortune has done with This Summer Will Be Different, and it's part of a changing tide in Canadian romances.

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KWL – 336 – Mental Health, Queer Narratives and More with Emily Austin - Kobo Writing Life

In this episode, we are joined by best-selling Canadian author Emily Austin, whose debut novel Everyone In This Room Will Some Day Be Dead was nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, to discuss her latest release, Interesting Facts About Space! This title is available today and was one of our top reads of […]

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