Writers' News

Hi

Today will be a quick post. I'm on chauffeur duty to bring Pat to two appointments with doctors and my son to his volunteer duties with the Atlantic Film Festival. Tonight is Girl's Night and my last one with a friend who is relocating back to Ontario. I will miss her and her husband. I'll try not to be too sad.

So, on to news about and for local writers...

Donna Morrissey has completed her manuscript. Watch for a release as early as Spring '08.

Ami McKay's Birth House is being released in paperback in the U.S. on October 9.

Carol Bruneau is launching her newest book, Glass Visions this Wednesday at Frog Hollow Books in Halifax. The book's official release date is the end of this month. (Carol is the author of Purple for Sky, published in the U.S. as A Purple Thread for Sky -- "In the U.S., Booklist praised it as a 'hilarious, moving and poetic book.' Kirkus called it 'a refreshingly unsentimental debut... deeply original in style.' In Canada, Purple for Sky was included in The Globe and Mail's 'Best Books of 2000' and recommended by Pamela Wallin on the CBC's Canada Reads and as a prime pick on her Chapters website. ")

A reminder that Friday is the deadline for application for the Writer's Federation Mentorship program.

On the international front, watch for the Maya Reynolds' interview this Friday.

Have a great day everyone... I gotta scoot,
Colleen