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FictionKNITstas — The Story Behind the Finished Object

By monnibo | Published: May 22, 2013

I’ve been participating in FictionKNITstas, the 2013 edition of Fictionistas. The project is a collaborative of independent Canadian publishers who bring female authors together for meaningful book events, and the 2013 edition threw knitting into the mix. As I already explained back in December, the project pairs each knitter with an author and their book. The knitters read the books and then collaborate with the author to determine a handknit garment that relates somehow to her book. The plan is to have the authors wear/bring these FOs on the tour (for non-knitters, FO stands for Finished Object). I knit for Continue Reading »

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Driving the BC Book Prizes On Tour’s Vancouver Island leg

By monnibo | Published: May 9, 2013

On Sunday I got back from a week on the road up and down Vancouver Island with two authors shortlisted for The BC Book Prizes—Anne Fleming, author of a book of short stories entitled Gay Dwarves of America, and Alan Woo, children’s author of Maggie’s Chopsticks. Each year the BC Book Prizes sends finalist authors on tour visiting schools, libraries, and bookstores throughout the province. The tour is supported by sponsors and completely free for any locations we visit. In each community we aim to visit one high school, one elementary school, and hold a public evening event. From April Continue Reading »

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44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith (book review)

By monnibo | Published: March 15, 2013

Many great authors got their start writing serialized fiction for the newspaper, notably Charles Dickens for The Pickwick Papers. The difficulty with serial fiction is that the author has to keep the attention of readers so they will return for further installments without alienating readers who pick up the newspaper or magazine without having read the portions that came before. Following this tradition and inspired by Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, author Alexander McCall Smith wrote 110 episodic bites of fiction for The Scotsman newspaper. These were the beginning of The Scotland Street series, which is about to wrap Continue Reading »

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