Stopped by the Chinatown gallery where we (as in, Penguin Canada and I, together at last) will be hosting Sima’s Victoria launch on February 12th. ”Ah yes,” said Allison, the friendly gallery owner (I love this about Victoria: gallery owners are friendly instead of inexplicably intimidating), “I just got your novel in the mail today.” She gestured [...]
Posts under ‘Publishing’
Pinot Grigio
I seem to have thrown out the cork for the wine Jordan and I opened with dinner, and I also can’t seem to find any of those whatchamacalits–you know, wine-stoppers. So it seems I’m doomed to finish the bottle alone, as Jordan has high-tailed it over to a mandatory pre-school lecture on bully-proofing your child. [...]
Blogs
I’ve been getting a lot of blog shout-outs lately. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It’s incredibly exciting to see my book getting out there. Just about a month to publication now. Gulp. Meantime I am still in Vancouver for my midwifery intensive, trudging through slush. I’ve only been a Canadian citizen since last February (could [...]
Small victories
Well, I’ve not only bought goggles and used them once, but I’ve also bought new poetry. So so far, so good on the New Year’s Resolutions, both true and false. Of course, it’s only January 6th. But, it even gets a little better: I bought the poetry –Victoria poet Isa Milman’s Prairie Kaddish, a truly [...]
Reluctant Self-promotion
I live one block away from a fabulous independent bookstore, Bolen Books. How fabulous? It won bookseller of the year in Canada last year. My daughters and I have spent many, many hours in Bolen Books, since it has a wonderful selection of children’s books–aisles and aisles and aisles of them. But here’s the deal: [...]
Just call me Angel
I am a novelist and a midwifery student—currently in full-time clinical placement–plus a mother of two. Some days this feels untenable & crazy-making. Other days it’s just incredibly interesting, and a lot of fun. Years ago, when I was a kid in Flatbush, Brooklyn, we’d drive all the way to Bay Ridge just to rent [...]