If you’re a novelist treading water (it looks so much like drowning, y’know) with the whole ‘how to publicise your novel’ thing, there is an answer: workshops! Now, this particular one is Author Social Media, hosted by BeNovel. It’s a one-day workshop, although you’ve got two dates and locations to choose from: Pickering, Ontario, on…
Meet Jessica McHugh. Creator of “sometimes disgusting characters”, author of bizarro sci-fi novels, erotic thrillers, and now: young adult, coming-of-age, Judy-Blume-eat-your-heart-out drama. She’s young, fresh, comfortable with vulgarity and fiercely intelligent. With fourteen of her novels published in the last six years, just waxing a bunch of clichés about her prowess and early success would…
Max Booth III’s book, Toxicity contains a hallucinated fly that behaves like God, well-punctuated violence, and a delicate portrayal of a young abused woman. There are also rich seams of humour, often conveyed by acidic observational wit liberally applied by the author. His bittersweet gaze strips down the characters to their lowest common denominator –…
If you’re a writer, the chances are that you spend a lot of time on your own. Forcing yourself to shout how great your book is in groups of people you don’t know that well can be fraught with danger and self-doubt. Novel publicity may not be fun. If you also don’t know what you’re…
The Book Bird 