- The fine folks at Anansi Press have declared Saturday the 26th Annabel day. “One Day. One Book. One Bestseller.” Play along! On Saturday, June 26th, 2010, head out to your local bookstore or go online and buy a copy of Kathleen Winter’s brilliant new novel. Moreover, if you post a picture of your receipt on the new Annabel fanpage , showing that you bought the book on the 26th, you could win a “sweet prize pack” from Anansi and Kathleen (Kathleen is making a handmade Annabel doll for the prize basket, check out the pics).
- Annabel, by the way, is currently the number two bestseller at Canada’s favourite, Libris award-winning independent bookstore, The Bookmark. In Halifax.
- The Bookmark, by the way, has a brand new website!
- As Jessica Grant’s Come, Thou Tortoise continues be blaze on literary fire, Salty Ink wasn’t the only one going backwards and looking for more Jessica Grant. And finding the remarkable collection of shorts, Making Light of Tragedy. I’m seeing it everywhere, most recently, the enjoyable Sasquatch Radio demands you “Read it Now!”
- If you’re a writer living in Newfoundland, you’ve only got one week left to submit a short story to the Cuffer Prize. Details here. See the coverage of Salty Ink’s Chad Pelley happily winning last year’s Cuffer Prize. So happily winning it, he adds in the name of friendly competition, that I invite you to try and steal it from me this year …
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