Biblioasis publicist Casey Plett has won the Amazon Canada first novel prize!
Most days she’s here working her magic to get attention for other people’s books, but today we’re overjoyed to announce that Casey’s own book, Little Fish (Arsenal Pulp Press), has won Amazon Canada’s first novel award! We’re absolutely thrilled for you, Casey!! Read all about it here and here.
“It had a greenish, demonish face on the cover. Readers, help!”: An Interview with Randy Boyagoda
“Book you most want to read again for the first time: The Hardy Boys book I lost when I was a boy, before I finished it! It had a greenish, demonish face on the cover. I’ve looked and looked and never found it. Readers, help!” In today’s Shelf Awareness Pro, Randy Boyagoda does a “Reading […]
Poetry on May 21: Shane Neilson’s NEW BRUNSWICK arrives in Canada and Mike Barnes’s BRAILLE RAINBOW in the US
STIGMATIZED, SILENCED EXPERIENCE: Mike Barnes’s Braille Rainbow and Shane Neilson’s New Brunswick candidly explore disability, abuse, physical pain, and mental illness. Both poets’ speakers struggle to love, or even to recognize, themselves: the bitterest irony is the self imitating itself at every level […]
