4 poets: Daniela Elza, Peter Morin, Al Rempel, Onjana Yawnghwe The first of Mother Tongue Publishing’s new series titled New BC Poets, 4 poets highlights over a dozen new poems by emerging poets Daniela Elza from Vancouver, Peter Morin from Victoria, Al Rempel from Prince George & Onjana Yawnghwe from Burnaby. 4 poetsalso includes poetry drafts, interviews, author photographs, poetics and [...]
Desiree Nichols is no stranger to heartbreak, but when her hot, young boyfriend abandons her after two years of being together, Dez’s foundations begin to crumble. To make matters worse, a family crisis is calling her home to face the people she left behind, the ones who never accepted her as anything but trouble. Fine. [...]
Fans of Harlan Coben and James Patterson will enjoy this book. Val Bosanquet, a former New Orleans detective, is offered a job as Chief of a campus PD. A Haitian child killer he helped convict for the murder of her mother has just been enrolled at the university. His estranged wife, now living with Val’s brother, [...]
About your book: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Readers have told me that they are intrigued by the way they end up feeling admiration, or at least compassion, for a main character who has so many offensive qualities. The other notable aspect is that many readers have never [...]
About your book: Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Betty Jane Hegerat: I’ve been told that Delivery brings a new perspective to the complicated issue of adoption. I feared the book might offend adoptive families I’ve worked with, that I might be perceived as anti-adoption. I’ve [...]
For Jamaican-born Bliss Sinclair, life in New York has worn thin. The boyfriend, the city, even her job all fail to satisfy her. Into this life steps a blazing hot seductress who puts her in touch with her passions in a way she’d never felt before. But the seduction is just that. When Sinclair thinks she might [...]
Just wanted to have a bit of fun with this video. If you’d like to know more about my book, Madame Zee, or the one I was reading in the bath, Delivery, by Betty Jane Hegerat, please click on the links below. Madame Zee by Pearl Luke Delivery by Betty Jane Hegerat
About your book: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? I hope that readers will find the accessibility of these poems something that stands out for them. I want the reader to see the issue, topic, theme of the poem through their own eyes and follow their own sight lines [...]
Set on Quadra Island on Canada’s west coast where a desperate grandmother has fled with her infant granddaughter under her arm, Delivery explores the emotional maelstrom of an unplanned pregnancy, and an abrupt mid-life transition. Lynn Howard has just begun to appreciate the freedom of her new single status and the empty nest when Heather, her [...]
The Sky is Falling, by Caroline Adderson. Thomas Allan. 310 pages. Describe the genesis of The Sky is Falling. When I turned forty a number of years ago – the prime age for a look back — I found myself reflecting on two contrasting periods of my life. One was my early twenties when I [...]
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