My debut novel The Quiet is Loud is forthcoming from Invisible Publishing May 4, 2021. Here’s where you can pre-order it online: Invisible Publishing Your local indie bookstore – here are just a few (an asterisk indicates a city that actually appears in the novel!): Bookmark, Charlottetown Bookmark, Halifax King’s Co-op Bookstore, Halifax Argo Bookshop, […]
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I’m so happy to share the cover of The Quiet is Loud, coming May 4 (so soon, ack) from Invisible Publishing! I love the book’s cool tarot-inspired cover, designed by the amazingly talented Megan Fildes. Tarot symbolism is a key part of the book, and I love how easily I can picture this cover as
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So cool to see The Quiet is Loud on this list of most anticipated titles for Spring 2021 from Shrapnel Magazine, along with so many other books I want to read! An excerpt: The Quiet is Loud looks to be a special treat featuring the occult, selfhood, and a meditation on storytelling itself. Thank you,
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As someone who lived in Hamilton for a couple of years and fell in love with the place very quickly, seeing The Quiet is Loud on Hamilton Review of Books’ “What We’re Reading: Editors’ Picks, Spring 2021” list feels extra sweet to me! Thank you Hamilton Review of Books for including my book, and to
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I’m over the moon about The Quiet is Loud appearing in the 49th Shelf’s “Most Anticipated” 2021 spring fiction list! There are so many great titles on this list and I’m excited for my book to be included as one of them (look for it in the paragraph showing the cover for Charity). Interwoven with
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News! I’m honoured to have had two poems and a short story published in a really cool new Canadian literary magazine, The Quarantine Review. They believe that “great works of creativity can liberate us despite our being sequestered. Although the theme of self-isolation might permeate every issue, the stories and essays themselves run the gamut
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Say hi to the grossest historical recipe I’ve ever made! A little while ago, I was talking to a friend about the “Vegetarian Cookery” section of my c.1938 copy of Mrs Beeton’s Household Management. I told them that I was pleasantly surprised at some of these recipes. Then I saw the recipe for “Nut Sandwiches.”
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Recently I thought it might be a fun quarantine project to revisit my copy of Mrs Beeton’s Household Management, c.1938, and make another historical recipe from the book. I narrowed it down to two that I thought would be fairly easy and interesting, and asked my Instagram followers to choose which one I should make
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After reading a couple of speculative fiction novels that incorporate non-European mythology (Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson and Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James), and really wonderful conversations with my editor, I’ve renewed my commitment to incorporating Filipino folk tales and mythology in The Quiet is Loud. My dad used to
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Discovering NK Jemisin changed my entire focus as a writer. The Broken Earth Trilogy (not pictured, I know) was like nothing else I’d read in my life. The world she created, and the way she wrote it, encouraged me to write what actually made me happy: stories featuring tweaked reality, magic systems, people who could
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