My author copies of The Quiet is Loud arrived and I can’t stop staring at them (and smelling the pages, let’s be honest). So. How does it feel? You’d think that as a writer I’d be able to answer that, but NOPE. Let’s just say that I’ve been working to get to this point for over half my life, and I honestly think I’ve never seen anything more beautiful than my printed novel. It’s everything, […]
The Reading Guide companion to The Quiet is Loud is up on Invisible Publishing’s site! It explores some of the themes and questions I had in mind while writing the book, and is designed to start conversations. Download it for your book club, buddy read, or just because! As a little bonus, I’ve included a guide to a quick tarot reading you can do yourself, if you want to get more into the Freya Tanangco
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The wonderful Open Book recently interviewed some of the authors who’ll be appearing at the Festival of Literary Diversity this May, and I’m proud to be one of them! I answered questions on diversity in Canadian literature, as well as the writing process. An excerpt: During the pandemic I’ve found that I miss coffeeshop writing a lot and think of it wistfully, the way I remember relics like phone booths and the sound of a
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I’m excited that The Quiet is Loud is one of Loan Stars’ top 10 Adult picks for May! Loan Stars is “the readers’ advisory tool that allows library staff across Canada to collaboratively select their favourite forthcoming titles.” TQIL appearing on the list means that it’s one of the titles that has had the most recommendations by libraries and library staff. Such an incredible honour, and my book potentially being on library shelves across Canada
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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, Montreal Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal Books & Company, Picton Blue Heron Books, Uxbridge Another Story Bookshop, Toronto* Book City,
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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 a card itself, being pulled and interpreted in a reading. To find out more about The Quiet is Loud, and
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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, Shrapnel! I’m honoured to be in such great company. I can’t wait for May 4th and the publication of my
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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 Dana Hansen for recommending it! There are loads of other great books on that list, so be sure to check
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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 themes of Filipino-Canadian and mixed-race identity, fantastical elements from Norse and Filipino mythology, and tarot card symbolism, Samantha Garner’s debut, The
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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 from humorous to transcendent.” Two poems, “When You Don’t See Me” and “Words for a Heart,” appeared in issue #1,
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