And now, pictures from our readings in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in early November… (Shelley Banks with Exile on a Grid Road, Tara Gereaux with Size of a Fist and Jan Wood, Love is not Anonymous.)
My thanks to everyone who came out to McNally Robinson Booksellers for the reading — what a great crowd!
Reading in Big River, Saskatchewan, was an adventure for several reasons. First, I’ve never been to that part of the province. Then, there were friends I hadn’t seen for some time. And finally, I took the risk of reading “Kiss of Knives,” a suite of poem about breast cancer from Exile on a Grid Road. And yes, that was a risk.
It’s always good to take risks as a writer, to push yourself further and into new material. But reading that material can be another matter…
Some scenes from the Big River reading, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, which featured Jan Wood’s launch of Love is not Anonymous, with readings by Tara Gereaux (Size of a Fist) and Shelley Banks (Exile on a Grid Road), all from Thistledown Press.
Yeah! Exile on a Grid Road is now officially launched! I had a great time Thursday night at Bushwakkers, with a capacity crowd in the Arizona Room joining me, fellow writers/launchers Jan Wood and Tara Gereau, along with MC Eric Greenway.
We read, we laughed, we ate. Cake! (Thank you, Anne McDonald!) My thanks too, to Thistledown for support with the event — and the books!
(There are more event pix on LatitudeDrifts, and a few here on my ShelleyBanks.ca blog.)
My thanks to Gerald Hill for his endorsement of my book!
I’m so glad that small publishers — in Saskatchewan, we are fortunate to have several, including Hagios, Coteau and Thistledown — encourage new and established writers and share their words!
Here’s a look at a few new books, published at the same time as mine, Exile on a Grid Road, as part of the New Leaf Series.
It was like my birthday opening that box of copies of Exile on a Grid Road — but please, those of you who know when my birthday really is, you’re not exempt from celebrating again! So here I am, book and bookmark in hand.
No unwrapping video here, but I can’t help sharing a picture of my box of Exile on a Grid Road books that arrived this morning! I’m delighted to see these — and love the rich colour of the cover. That’s our blue Prairie sky and landscape, in a photograph I took in the Qu’Appelle Valley near Regina.
I’m very excited to announce that my book Exile on a Grid Road (Thistledown Press) with be launched in Regina on October 29, 2015, with Tara Gereaux and Jan Wood.
We’ll also be reading in Big River (November 5) and in Saskatoon (November 6).
After all of the work that goes into producing a book, I thought I should share the back cover of Exile on a Grid Road — and that way, Gord also gets to see his photo credit. Again. (And yes, my hair is very long.)
