Late-breaking Sima news:
Hebrew language rights have been sold!
Sima has been shortlisted for the City of Victoria Butler Prize!
Back-to-school Clinical-intensive-at-UBC news:
Orca whale sighting on my ferry commute!
And finally: results are in from the Duo Tang challenge:
Several Canadians emailed me about my spelling of Duo Tang. A PhD in Canadian Literature gently explained (well, actually she called [...]
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Newsflash
Hello, Nova Scotia
I’m back in the fog in Upper Kingsburg, Nova Scotia –one of my very favourite places to be. Take a look at the picture below and you’ll see why:
Is that lovely, or what? Plus, there’s always the chance you could bump into Calvin Trillin. Not that I or anyone I know out here has ever [...]
Meantime, Sima gets around
While I’ve been busy with my student-midwife life attending births in Alberta, Sima has been getting around. Random sightings here & there (do synagogue bookstores count as random?), but none more so than this: my friend Amelia, a fellow student-midwife, came across Sima in Port Hardy, a small town on Northern Vancouver Island where she’s [...]
New York, New York, a helluva town
Well, I’m back in the Big City for the 3rd time since February, albeit for a very, very brief stay. Arrived 5:30 pm this Saturday evening and depart with the dawn on Monday. But tomorrow: tomorrow I have a full-day of literary….ummm….literary stuff. Brunch with my agent & editor –how much do I love that [...]
I love arctic birds
I’ll blurt out the big news first: Penguin has bought Sima’s paperback rights!
It’s good. Really good. It means a whole new “package,” apparently: another cover, another launch, another chance.
Very, very exciting. Even though I love the old cover & even though I have become a huge fan of Overlook Press, still, this is clearly a very good [...]
You’ve got 2 minutes
Weeks past the deadline, I’m trying to sum-up Sima in a 2-minute blurb that I’ll read in front of umpteen Jews for the Jewish Book Network audition. Prove you –and your book–are appealing & nail down the Jewish content requirement, and you could be whisked away on an all-paid, cross-country tour of Jewish Book Fairs, synagogue [...]
To market to market
I am tempted to write all sorts of excuses about why it’s taken me so long to post a new entry, but I’m thinking that perhaps the #1 blog rule– or rather the #2 rule, give that the #1 rule is no doubt Write, and Write Often–is that if you haven’t written, don’t go on [...]
Oh Canada!
Saturday morning my phone rang at 7am. I assumed it’d be my supervisor calling with news of a lady in labour, but it was my friend Eric-from-Edmonton (well, originally from Thunder Bay, ON) calling to tell me I was reviewed in The Globe and Mail. “And it’s fanastic,” he said.
It was. It is. It’s here.
Before I’d [...]
Radio redux, and hold the babies, please.
I’m back in the swing of clinical placement — the glamour of the book tour receding ever more quickly. Of course, there’s still loads of publicity to be done: for instance, it’s important that I check my amazon.com ranking at least once a day. Otherwise–well, I don’t even want to think what could happen.
Seriously though (well, [...]
Camel vs caramel, and where are the reviews?!
Things are quiet, though I’m anticipating a birth streak: on my first day back in clinic last week (with a new clinical supervisor, as the midwife I’ve been shadowing since October is on holiday this month), I discovered that all our clients appear to be 38 weeks pregnant with a history of giving birth at 38 weeks.
Oh.
All the [...]