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.
Wow — that wasn’t so hard!
(Or maybe it was, what with my computer locking up last night, but that had nothing to do with the process of creating a site icon.)
I’ve been wondering lately why my website pages show only a white square on browser tabs, while corporate and other pages display distinctive logos. Ditto, when I save a page from my site to the home screen of my iPhone.
How do they create site icons, I wondered. And today, I discovered that it’s really simple with Photoshop and WordPress.
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.)
Exile on a Grid Road is part of the Thistledown Press 2015 New Leaf Series, which features work by four writers:
It’s official! Exile on a Grid Road is now offered in the Thistledown Press Fall 2015 catalogue:
Savannah Sparrows are fairly common brown streaked birds with a beauty mark worth looking for — a bright yellow spot before their eyes.
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Sometimes it feels as if birds are curiously watching our human actions. This Cedar Waxwing looks unafraid. Not ready to fly.
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