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This is our third week of LAUNCHPAD at @49thShelf, using our platform to spread the word about recently launched Canadian books. I want to share some highlights! https://49thshelf.com/Blog ">https://49thshelf.com/Blog"...
"Much like its awkward autistic author, I imagine my book wandering around and desperately wanting to talk to other books, but having no clue how to start." https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/20/Launchpad-I-Overcame-My-Autism-by-Sarah-Kurchak">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
Traci Skuce learns "That accessing the voice of the story is key. And once you find it, it must permeate every sentence." https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/16/Launchpad-Hunger-Moon-by-Traci-Skuce">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
"Who wanted shit on their sequins?"
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"We were always a funny family and that wasn’t going to change just because Mom was dying." https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/14/Launchpad-Dead-Mom-Walking-by-Rachel-Matlow">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
"Did you know that, collectively, all the little ponds and wetlands on the Great Plains (we called them “sloughs” out West) cover an area larger than the Great Lakes? " https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/14/Launchpad-Prairie-by-Candace-Savage">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
"I believe I share with Elena Ferrante and Rachel Cusk an interest in the shifting and unreliable mind and narration of a protagonist who is, at the same time, entirely believable." https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/09/Launchpad-Polar-Vortex-by-Shani-Mootoo">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
Shaukat Ajmeri considers his novel KEEPERS OF THE FAITH in conversation with "Rohinton Mistry, M.G. Vassanji, Salman Rushdie, September in Shiraz by Dalia Sofer, Women Talking by Miriam Toews." https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/16/Launchpad-Keepers-of-the-Faith-by-Shaukat-Ajmeri">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
Discover WHY all the Victorian houses in Jane Christmas& #39;s area of Bristol, England, are missing the decorative iron railings on their front garden walls... https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/17/Launchpad-Open-House-by-Jane-Christmas">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
"The ideal reader for The Kissing Fence has a preference for absorbing history from literature, is interested in stories of psychological transition, is socially and politically aware with a leaning towards social justice." https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/15/Launchpad-The-Kissing-Fence-by-B.A.-Thomas-Peter">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
"Gold Rush explores what it means to be a woman in the wilderness, from the Klondike to an all-girls summer camp to the frontier of a changing climate." https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/15/Launchpad-Gold-Rush-by-Claire-Caldwell">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
What& #39;s the difference between caution and doubt? https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/20/Launchpad-Lost-Lagoon-Lost-in-Thought-by-Betsy-Warland">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
"The ideal reader of The Swan Suit enjoys getting dressed up in fancy party clothes, then taking them all off to go skinny dipping at midnight." https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/13/Launchpad-The-Swan-Suit-by-Katherine-Fawcett">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
For an ideal reader WHO:
Is a big fan of uncertainty (or isn’t).
Liked Wallace Stevens in college (or didn’t).
Loves New Jersey (or hates it).
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Is a big fan of uncertainty (or isn’t).
Liked Wallace Stevens in college (or didn’t).
Loves New Jersey (or hates it).
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CONTINUING THIS THREAD WITH MORE HIGHLIGHTS FROM @49thShelf& #39;s LAUNCHPAD, spotlighting new releases this spring.
How does an artist break THROUGH without breaking down? https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/24/Launchpad-The-BREAKDOWN-Tour-with-Jillian-Christmas-Amber-Dawn-and-Vivek-Shraya">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
"My ideal reader is someone who would love to happen upon a tiny, unexpected bookstore up in a treehouse, deep in an old-growth cedar forest." https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/24/Launchpad-The-Wild-Heavens-by-Sarah-Louise-Butler">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
"I’m grateful to my friend James Wigmore who gave me the word “endling”, which means the last living member of a species, and thus the title of the book." https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/23/Launchpad-Endlings-by-Joanna-Lilley">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
"After 11 novels I’ve finally accepted that my process is that I have no process. Each narrative finds its way gradually, after a bajillion revisions." https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/23/Launchpad-Misconduct-of-the-Heart-by-Cordelia-Strube">https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020...
