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 

"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

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

"Who wanted shit on their sequins?"
https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/17/Launchpad-Mad-Cow-by-Alexis-Kienlen

"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

"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

"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

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

Discover WHY all the Victorian houses in Jane Christmas'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

"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

"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

What's the difference between caution and doubt? https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/20/Launchpad-Lost-Lagoon-Lost-in-Thought-by-Betsy-Warland

"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

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).

https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/07/Launchpad-Junebat-by-John-Elizabeth-Stintzi

CONTINUING THIS THREAD WITH MORE HIGHLIGHTS FROM @49thShelf'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

"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

"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

"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