March 26th, 2024

These Days Are Numbered on the Book Promotion Journey, Highlights and Other Lights

A couple days ago was the seventh birthday of my novel So Much Love, a novel that I do truly love very much. I quietly nodded to the day, much as I do on my cats’ birthdays and other birthdays of things and creatures that do not experience time. Not a meaningless day, but not one I feel personally called to make a big deal over either (anyone who celebrates ecstatically for their book and/or cat’s birthday, I am thrilled for you–I’m just not in that place lately).

I’m still in the first year of life with These Days Are Numbered, a very different book and a very different love. I still feel like I ought to be doing things for this book–it is, after all, still an infant. Sometimes I even am doing things for it, but…not as often as I feel I should. It has been a different climate into which it was born, both in my life and the world. I am very proud of this book–I hope people read and enjoy it–but most of the time, I just leave it to find its own way in the world.

Sometimes it does. There’s the nice review on Lesley Krueger’s blog–not entirely unmixed but really thoughtful and intelligent and coming from a cool interesting writer herself. I did a fun reading at UofT with all the different years of alumni from my creative writing masters and felt very old but also had an amazing time. My own bookclub read my book, which was amazing because I wouldn’t be a part of any bookclub that isn’t super-smart and kind and good at asking questions and all that was brought to bear on my little book–an honour! I have another reading coming up with Danila Botha who is launching her new collection Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness and Carleigh Baker who is launching her new collection Last Woman. The reading is on April 18 at Ben McNally’s bookstore. Here is the cute poster they made for it at Dundurn:

So that’s fun! I’m not up to much more than that upcoming–that I know of, anyway, although always feel free to invite me to stuff if you feel like it! I love stuff! And it’s kind of not even winter anymore so I’m more apt to go places.