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"Remembrance Day is here. I have my poppy. The challenge is to stop it falling out and disappearing. They are not easy to wear. Maybe that is a good thing." Be sure to read this moving new blog post by Wendy Gruner. On the one-year-anniversary of the release of her memoir, Children of a Faraway War, 2019, Wendy writes from personal experience about #RemembranceDay, #ArmisticeDay, peace and loss. https://www.wendygruner.com/post/musings-on-november-11

Iguana Books family, here's a workshop that you might enjoy. All are welcome to this free event, coordinated by Canadian AuthorsToronto. #CAAEvents #poetry #Tarot

Marilyn Carr’s family arrived in Deep River, Ontario in 1960 because her dad got a job at a mysterious place called the plant. The quirky, isolated residence for the employees of Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories was impeccably designed by a guy named John Bland. It’s a test-tube baby of a town that sprang, fully formed, from the bush north of Algonquin Park, on the shore of the Ottawa River. Everything has already been decided, including the colours of the houses, inside an...d out. What could possibly go wrong? Nowhere like This Place is a coming-of-age memoir set against the backdrop of the weirdness of an enclave with more PhDs per capita than anywhere else on earth. It’s steeped in thinly veiled sexism and the searing angst of an artsy child trapped in a terrarium full of white-bread nuclear scientists and their nuclear families. Everything happens, and nothing happens, and it all works out in the end. Maybe. Marilyn Carr is a class of 2020 MFA graduate from the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is her fourth degree, but who’s counting? (She is.) She blogs about the absurdness of everyday life at www.marilyncarr.com, and is currently working on the next installment of her memoirs, How I Invented the Internet. www.marilyncarr.com Purchase links: Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Nowhere-like-This-Plac//1771804351/ Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Nowhere-like-This-Place//1771804351/ Kindle e-book: https://www.amazon.ca/Nowhere-like-This-Place-Childhood-// Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/nowhere-like-this-place For more book sellers and more information, visit: http://www.iguanabooks.ca/books/nowhere-like-this-place Marilyn Carr #nuclearchildhood #memoir #DeepRiver #ChalkRiver #nuclearpower #atomic #Canada #books #writinglife #writingcommunity #independentpublishing

If you missed any of the earlier in-person opportunities to hear Iguana Books author Mark Creedon read from his debut novel, CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO DEVILS, here is your opportunity to catch him online. Mark will join the Madawaska Valley Public Library for a virtual reading and discussion about his book tomorrow night (Thursday, Oct. 22) at 7 p.m., and all are welcome to join the call. Here is the Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/95573598027

One author's fascinating story of transitioning from traditional publishing to self-publishing. Why he did it and what he gained. https://booklife.com//an-oral-history-pw-talks-with-jerry-

High praise for Beth Kaplan's new book, LOOSE WOMAN, from one of Canada's finest actors!

Iguana Books is proud to present A DEATH MOST COLD, an academic murder mystery by retired history professor Jerry Petryshyn. Synopsis: A small town college in northern Alberta can be chilling.... One crisp winter morning the college’s domineering president, Vanessa Dworking, is found frozen behind the wheel of her Oldsmobile. Now to be sure, Ms. Dworking was not particularly well liked. In fact, she had a legion of detractors within the institution. Still, the question remained: Was it death by misadventure, or was it murder? Corporal Freta Osprey of the RCMP needs an answer. Thus, she enlists a seemingly hapless college professor, Myron Tarasyn, to help her get the inside college scoop and ferret out the truth. Tarasyn, in turn, has some issues of his own that need sorting. An unlikely pair, they must deal with a host of challenging academics and significant others, who are most uncooperative if not worse! Quite unwittingly, Tarasyn becomes privy to a number of nasty secrets, sordid relationships and shady actions that promise to shed light on a most suspicious death. More about the author: Jaroslav (Jerry) Petryshyn holds a Ph D from the University of Western Ontario. An award-winning author, he taught history for over 30 years before becoming a Dean at Grande Prairie Regional College. He served as the Alberta representative on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Purchase links: Amazon.com (paperback): https://www.amazon.com/Death-Most-Jaroslav-Jerry-Petrysh// Amazon.ca (paperback): https://www.amazon.ca/Death-Most-Jaroslav-Jerry-Petryshyn// Amazon.com (ebook): https://www.amazon.ca/Death-Most-Co//ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0 #academics #academicantics #newfiction #newrelease #novels #mystery #mysteries #murdermysteries #RCMP #Alberta #collegepresident

This piece in the Simcoe Reformer details Mark Cannon's journey from carpentry and construction to publishing his first novel, Able Hands, earlier this year. Through health scares and loss, Mark has followed out his lifelong dream of becoming an author. https://www.simcoereformer.ca//local-news/norfolk-man-publ

A superb and impassioned speech tonight from Iguana author Mary O'Sullivan, who explains why it was so important to her to write Lazarus Heart, her book about a young man in her care who suffers from complex PTSD. Mary's book is one of three non-fiction finalists for the Whistler Independent Book Award, the results of which will be announced on Oct. 16. Thanks to the organizers of the Whistler Writers Festival for hosting tonight's virtual reading for all of the #WIBA finalists.

There is still time to register for this event, which begins tonight at 8 p.m. EST. Pay what you can to hear Iguana author Mary O'Sullivan read from her book Lazarus Heart, along with other finalists for the 2020 Whistler Independent Book Award. The #WIBA winner will also be announced at this event. https://whistlerwritersfest.ticketleap.com/reading-event-1/

Praise for Jordan Berman's new book, The Trust Trifecta. To find out more or to purchase your copy, visit: http://www.iguanabooks.ca/books/the-trust-trifecta #managerialscience #managerialskills #trust #business #leadership

French speakers, we hope you'll take the time to enjoy this très cool interview with Iguana Books author Beth Kaplan, whose new memoir, LOOSE WOMAN, is doing so much to liven up our fall book list. This link gets you to the landing page for Radio-Canada's "L'heure de pointe Toronto/Windsor" avec Alison Vicrobeck. Scroll down to find Beth's interview at 16:33 several items below the totally unrelated cannabis pic. :) https://ici.radio-canada.ca//rattrapage-du-mardi-6-octo/10 @BethKaplanWriter #memoir #publishing #RadioCanada #authorinterview #Canadianauthors #Torontoauthors #France #comingofage #biglifechange

Author copies just arrived! Your very own personal copy in less than a month, (unless you happen to be at Six Mile Lake on the weekend, in which case you are in pre-view luck!)

Reminder! Register now to hear Mary O'Sullivan's Oct. 8 reading and interview with the Federation of British Columbia Writers! Full details can be found on the federation's website: https://www.bcwriters.ca/event-3991376, and you can click here to register for the event: https://www.bcwriters.ca/event-3991376. After registering, you will receive a separate link to allow you to join the Zoom call at 2 p.m. Pacific Time, which is 5 p.m. Eastern Time. Mary will read from her book, Lazarus Heart, which ended up on a shortlist of only three nonfiction books for the 2020 Whistler Independent Book Award, the results of which will be announced at a separate event on Oct. 16.

The wait is finally over! You can now purchase your copy of Jack Whyte's new book of short stories, YESTERDAY'S BATTLES. Purchase links can be found here: http://www.iguanabooks.ca/books/yesterdays-battles To the millions of readers who have found themselves entranced by Jack Whyte's historical novels over the past twenty years, this first collection of Jack Whyte short stories might seem like a radical change of direction, if not an absolute contradiction in terms. But tha...t simply isn't true. There is no change of direction on Whyte’s part in these shorter tales, merely an adjustment of focus, from the panoramic perspective to the personal, intimate viewpoint. The ten stories featured here are distilled from all the elements that have earned Whyte a worldwide readership among lovers of epic historical fiction, an audience that has remained loyal to him for decades. The people they deal with are real credible and utterly, convincingly human and the existential realities that govern their lives are as demanding and immutable as such things have always been. Yesterday’s battles are no different from those of tomorrow. Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Yesterdays-Ba//ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 Barnes&Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/yesterdays-bat/1137675269

Meet Beany Bear! This interactive children's book by Christine J. Logan includes counting, searching, and singing, while reminding children that anyone can become a friend, by being kind and accepting others. Available today. To find out more or order your copy, visit: http://www.iguanabooks.ca/b/because-you-care-for-beany-bear and scroll down to choose one of several bookseller links. More about the author: Christine Logan’s has been writing faithfully since 2011. Christine... has self-published four books, including one she co-wrote with a former client, Special Tribute to Mothers Everywhere. Christine’s most recent release, Suppose, was endorsed by the very talented author H. W. Bryce, who wrote, Chasing a Butterfly in honour of his late wife. Christine Logan has found her calling as a mother, wife, caregiver and as an author. She lives in Maple Ridge, B.C., Canada with her husband and their loving two-year-old cat, Snow White. Snow White shares her affections equally between them. www.cloganinsideinspiration.com #childrensbooks #childrensbookillustration #counting #searching #friendship #animals #kidsbooks #kidsbookswelove #kidsbookshelf #kidsbookillustration #kidsbookclub #ChristineLogan #writingcommunity #hybrid #publishing #coloringbook #bearstories

Iguana Books author Kiran Bhat (...we of the forsaken world, 2019) has been busy writing for journals and planning his next novel, a multi-year online narrative titled Girar. To follow along and keep up with news of his other publications, subscribe to Kiran's Weltgeist: https://kiranbhat.substack.com/

The endorsements keep coming in for Jordan Berman's new book, The Trust Trifecta. Here's one from award-winning media and presentation coach and Fortune 500 consultant Jeff Ansell, author of When the Headline is YOU. To learn more about The Trust Trifecta or to purchase your own copy, visit our website (and scroll down to find various purchase links): http://www.iguanabooks.ca/books/the-trust-trifecta