Podcasts about breakwater books

On Episode 233, we are thrilled to welcome back, MATTHEW GOODMAN! We are so grateful that Zoom and, before them, Skype (remember them?) opened up the world to conversations with authors. That said, there's still nothing like sitting in the same room with other humans talking about books, ideas, and historic happenings. Matthew joined us at Book Cougars HQ here in Connecticut to discuss his new book, PARIS UNDERCOVER: A WARTIME STORY OF COURAGE, FRIENDSHIP, AND BETRAYAL, now available from Ballantine Books. The book is a narrative history about Etta Shiber and Kate Bonnefous, two middle-aged women who smuggled out British servicemen from behind enemy lines, their arrest, Etta's best-selling memoir about their efforts, and the price Kate paid for that book. Don't miss our conversation with Matthew at the end of this episode. Paris Undercover is about history, but it speaks to our current time. Some highlights in this episode: We both have started reading around in THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER, edited by Roxane Gay, starting with “If Men Could Menstruate” by Gloria Steinem. Chris also read “Being Female” by Eileen Myles. Emily finished the novel FOOD PERSON by Adam Roberts, and Chris read the graphic memoir EPHEMERA by Briana Loewinsohn. It was also time for another ghost story from THE PENGUIN BOOK OF GHOST STORIES: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce. We both thought “The Signal Man” by Charles Dickens was “meh,” although it had some good lines and moments. In Biblio Adventures, we recap seeing Maura Casey at Bank Square Books in Mystic, our Independent Bookstore Day jaunts to Breakwater Books in Guilford and R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT, and Emily's volunteer experience at Cherry Jubilee in NYC. We had such a fun time recording this episode and hope you enjoy it. Happy Reading! https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2025/episode233

The stakes are high and the nerves are too.. Writers NL is hosting their annual 'Pitch Wars" event... where real writers pitch real publishers for a chance to land a real book deal - all in front of a real audience. We get a preview from the executive director of Writers NL and the president and publisher of Breakwater Books. (Krissy Holmes with Jen Winsor; Krissy with Rebecca Rose)

Welcome to Episode 220 – It's another 10th episode, which means it's giveaway time! One lucky newsletter subscriber will win copies of The Gardener's Plot: A Mystery by Deborah J. Benoit and The Author's Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. We send one newsletter per month, and it is free. Sign up on our website, and good luck! We also announce our Patreon giveaway for November: Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir edited by Tod Goldberg. John Valeri, our Mystery Man, is back! He joins us to discuss Murder in the Smithsonian by Margaret Truman, which we buddy-read. John also shares some insider information that might shock Truman fans. Since the last episode, we've read several delightful romances, an eerie ghost story, a thought-provoking multigenerational novel, and a charming picture book: Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center “Afterward: A Ghost Story for Christmas” or from the collection Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton Real Americans by Rachel Khong What Feelings Do When No One's Looking by Tina Oziewicz, illustrated by Aleksandra Zajac and translated by Jennifer Croft We also had some wonderful Biblio Adventures, including stops at Breakwater Books and Bennett's Books and a great virtual event via the North Haven Memorial Library with Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. As always, this episode has more books and adventures than we can list in this blurb. If you don't catch something while you're listening, check out the show notes on our website, where you'll find all the books and places we talk about listed, usually with links. Thank you for listening, and we wish you lots of Happy Reading!

Willow Kean does an winning monologue in studio, we hear from author Donna Morrissey, and publishers from three different publishing houses, Glenn Day from Boulder Books, Rebecca Rose from Breakwater Books, and Jerry Cranford from Flanker Press, join Krissy in studio. Recommended books from publishers include: Glenn Day from Boulder books tells us about their latest guide book "Beaches of Newfoundland" by Carla Smith Krachun. He also recommends Hidden Nova Scotia, a children's book called Walter & Seymore: Let's Play by Kim Osbourne, and The Grounds Café cook book. Then, Rebecca from Breakwater recommends Impressions of Newfoundland by Ting Ting Chen, Suliewey by Mi'sel Joe and Sheila O'Neill, Five for Forteau by Kevin Major, and A Company of Rogues by Trudy J. Morgan-Cole. For children's books, Rebecca recommends IsThisAnOlogy? by Amanda Dorothy Jean Bulman, and The Ewe Who Knew Who Knit You by Cara Kansala. Last, Jerry Cranford from Flanker Press recommends The World Search of Newfoundland and Labrador - Volume 2 - by Nick Cranford, Much More Than Police by Terry Carlson, Away From My Island by Gary Collins, We'd Rather Fight Than Eat by Jay McGrath, and The River Murder by Patrick J Collins.

For an unpublished author, there's nothing so certain as the goal of being published, so much that it consumes the art. As such, it's a massive shift once that goal first occurs! In this episode, we ask ten Breakwater authors how being published changed their writing process!Rebecca Rose, President and PublisherKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger WarningDr Hasan Khalili, author of A Life Spent ListeningBridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda JanesOlivia Robinson, author of Blue Moth MotelShelly Kawaja, author of The Raw Light of MorningTom Moore, author of Goodbye MommaTracey Waddleton, author of Send More Tourists... The Last Ones Were DeliciousTzu-Hao Hsu, contributor to Us, NowRebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen PartyOriginally broadcast on November 22, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the 49th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

The books that affected us as children can have a profound affect on the material we consume and create as adults. In this episode, 14 incredible Breakwater authors reveal what their favorite and most memorable books from childhood were!Rebecca Rose, President & PublisherAinsley Hawthorn, Land of Many ShoresClaire Wilkshire, author of The Love OlympicsDerek Yetmen, author of The Yankee PrivateerPrajwala Dixit, author of The Tales of DwipaShiela Lukins, author of Bottom's UpDaze Jefferies, contributor to Land of Many ShoresTracey Waddleton, author of Send More Tourists... The Last Ones Were DeliciousKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger WarningKevin Major, author of Four for FogoXavier Micheal- Campbell, contributor to Us, NowMichelle Porter, author of Approaching FireBridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda JanesRebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen PartyOriginally broadcast on November 15, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the 48th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Have you ever wondered how a novel can transform into a theatrical masterpiece? Queer writer, performer, and director, Megan Greeley, joins us to share her fascinating journey of adapting her novel, Jawbone, into a play. We uncover the layers of a young girl navigating platonic and romantic feelings in the absence of queer representation, and challenge the societal taboos around male bonding and physical affection. We then move on to examine the exhaustion and solitude that comes with writing a solo show and the celebration of rediscovering the supportive theatre community. Megan draws upon her theatre background to breathe life into her narratives, reminding us of the power of storytelling and performance. We also delve into her experiences with the TNL Youth theatre program and how it revealed a creative dimension within her that she hadn't previously explored. In the final segment, we explore the realities of pursuing a career in the performing arts, looking at the highs, the lows, and everything in between. From economic constraints to the priceless support of her parents, Megan reflects on how these factors have influenced her journey. We highlight the significant role of Ruth Lawrence in the Newfoundland theatre scene and Megan's career, discussing mentorship, career progression, and the art of infusing humour into darker subject matter. Join us for a refreshing conversation that bridges theatre, storytelling, and queer identity. Bio Meghan Greeley is a queer writer, editor, performer, and director originally from Corner Brook, NL. Her poetry, prose, and scripts have been published in The Stockholm Review of Literature, Ephemera, Metatron's ÖMËGÄ project, Riddle Fence, Humber Mouths 2, The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Drama (Vol. 1), and the Playwrights Canada Press anthology Long Story Short. As a playwright, she was a 2016 nominee for the RBC Tarragon Emerging Playwrights Prize and was later a resident of both the Tarragon Playwrights Unit and Nightwood Theatre's Write from the Hip program. Her stage plays have been produced across Canada. Her play Hunger, published by Breakwater Books, was shortlisted for the BMO Winterset Award. Her short novel Jawbone is forthcoming from Radiant Press in Fall 2023. She is currently the Artistic Director of White Rooster Theatre. Twitter: @meghangreeley Instagram: @meghan_greeley Jawbone: https://radiantpress.ca/shop/p/jawbone Support Stageworthy Donate: tips.pinecast.com/jar/stageworthy

Does having a Big Ego help or hurt authors? Sure you need to have some confidence to get your work out there, but where does that line end? We asked eight Breakwater Books authors where they thought that line was.Featuring:Rebecca Rose, President and PublisherTzu-Hao Hsu, contributor to Us, NowGareth Mitton, contributor to About FacePrajwala Dixit, author of The Tales of DwipaDaze Jefferies - Land of Many Shores / TransVersingKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger WarningBridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda JanesXavier Micheal Campbell, contributor to Us, NowThis episode is the 39th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on October 04, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations in the province. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Writing -- no matter if for a hobby or your career -- can sometimes be fairly cheap, and other times, quite expensive. Editing, covers, all that. But what's the best thing you can spend your money on? These eleven authors reflect on their most impactful purchases over their careers.Featuring:Rebecca Rose, President and PublisherClaire Wilkshire, author of The Love OlympicsDerek Yetmen, author of The Yankee PrivateerMichelle Porter, author of Approaching FireOlivia Robinson, author of Blue Moth MotelTracey Waddleton, author of Send More Tourists... The Last Ones Were DeliciousRebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen PartyLisa Moore, editor of Hard TicketTom Moore, author of Goodbye MommaThis episode is the 38th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on September 27, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations in the province. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Sometimes, a book just doesn't get enough attention. Here are seven books that Breakwater Authors feel deserve more!Featuring:Rebecca Rose, President and PublisherDaze Jefferies - Land of Many Shores / TransVersingMorgan Murray, author of Dirty BirdsTracey Waddleton, author of Send More Tourists... The Last Ones Were DeliciousLisa Moore, editor of Hard TicketXavier Micheal Campbell, contributor to Us, NowOlivia Robinson, author of Blue Moth MotelBridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda JanesThis episode is the 37th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on September 20, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations in the province. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

For writers, writing scratches a very specific itch... but what would they do to satisfy that itch if they couldn't write, for some reason? Nine Breakwater Books authors try and answer that question on today's episode of Write Project.Featuring:Rebecca Rose, President and PublisherAinsley Hawthorn, author of Land of Many ShoresMorgan Murray, author of Dirty BirdsClaire Wilkshire, author of The Love OlympicsRebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen PartyDerek Yetmen, author of The Yankee PrivateerTrudy Morgan-Cole, author of The Cupids TrilogyDaze Jefferies - Land of Many Shores / TransVersingShelly Kawaja, author of The Raw Light of MorningKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger WarningThis episode is the 36th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on September 13, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations in the province. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

It can be a lightbulb moment for an author: that moment when we learn that language can do things: change minds, tell stories, get us things. Today on Write Project, our Breakwater Books guests offer their own stories of how it happened for them.Featuring:Rebecca Rose, President and PublisherDaze Jefferies - Land of Many Shores / TransVersingLisa Moore, editor of Hard TicketKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger WarningRebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen PartyKevin Major, author of Four for FogoTracey Waddleton, author of Send More Tourists... The Last Ones Were DeliciousMichelle Porter, author of Approaching FireTom Moore, author of Goodbye MommaShelly Kawaja, author of The Raw Light of MorningOlivia Robinson, author of Blue Moth MotelThis episode is the 35th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on September 06, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations in the province. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Sometimes you're there. You're in the zone. The words are flowing, and things are going great, and then it just... stops. Sometimes that's random, but sometimes... it's the same thing over and over again. In this episode. 11  authors reveal their greatest weaknesses: the writing kryptonite that can stop their work dead in its tracks, every time!Featuring:Tzu-Hao Hsu, contributor to Us, NowTrudy Morgan-Cole, author of The Cupids TrilogyShiela Roberts Lukins, author of Bottom's UpKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger WarningShelly Kawaja, author of The Raw Light of MorningKevin Major, author of Four for FogoDr Hasan Khalili, author of A Life Spent ListeningBridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda JanesPaul David Power, author of CrippledOlivia Robinson, author of Blue Moth MotelRebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen PartyThis episode is the 34th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on August 30, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations in the province. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Shelly Kawaja's writing has appeared in several journals and literary magazines, such as the Humber Literary Review, the Dalhousie Review, Post-Colonial Text, and PACE. Her short story “Shotgun” won the gritLit 2020 fiction contest. Shelly has an MA from Memorial University and is currently completing an MFA in creative writing at UBC. She lives in Norris Point and manages the Writers at Woody Point literary festival, which happens every summer on the other side of Bonne Bay Pond. On nice days she Sea-Doos to work.Pick up The Raw Light of Morning using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3JnJruSThis episode is the 36th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on August 23, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.  Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Trudy Morgan-Cole, author of The Cupids Trilogy from Breakwater Books Ltd., as well as Most Anything You Please, By the Rivers of Brooklyn, and That Forgetful Shore!Her newest, A Company of Rogues, releases this October from Breakwater Books!This episode is the thirty-fifth part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Pick up A Roll of the Bones using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3ZzbflsOriginally broadcast on August 16, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.  Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Every author makes mistakes, especially when they're new to an industry. If you're new to this world and find it hard to get answers, give this episode a listen -- you might just avoid a major mistake!Lisa Moore, editor of Hard TicketRebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen PartyShiela Lukins, author of Bottom's UpXavier Micheal- Campbell, contributor to Us, NowMichelle Porter, author of Approaching FireBridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda JanesGareth Mitton, contributor to About FaceTzu-Hao Hsu, contributor to Us, NowTracey Waddleton, author of Send More Tourists... The Last Ones Were DeliciousThis episode is the 34th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on August 9, 2024 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.  Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Sometimes characters come to you with names fully formed... but sometimes, they don't. When that happens, how do you develop a name for the characters in your work?Amanda Dorothy Jean Bulman, author of Salt Beef BucketsShiela Lukins, author of Bottom's UpXavier Micheal- Campbell, contributor to Us, NowOlivia Robinson, author of Blue Moth MotelPaul David Power, author of CrippledShelly Kawaja, author of The Raw Light of MorningTrudy J Morgan-Cole, author of A Roll of the BonesTzu-Hao Hsu, contributor to Us, NowThis episode is the 33rd part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on August 2, 2024 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.  Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Connecticut Senator George P. McLean's crowning achievement was overseeing passage of one of the country's first and most important wildlife conservation laws, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. The MBTA, which is still in effect today, has saved billions of birds from senseless killing and likely prevented the extinction of entire bird species.   In this episode, Executive Producer Mary Donohue interviews Will McLean Greeley. He grew up with a deep interest in American history, politics, and birds.  After retiring from a 35-year career in government and corporate market research, he began a four-year research and writing journey to learn more about George P. McLean and his legacy.  A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington, Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate, published by the Rochester Institute of Technology Press in 2023, is his first book. The new book puts McLean's victory for birds in the context of his distinguished forty-five-year career marked by many acts of reform during a time of widespread corruption and political instability. McLean rose from obscurity as a Connecticut farm boy to serve as Governor of Connecticut and as a senator from Connecticut in Congress where he advised five US presidents and helped lead change and shape events as a US senator from 1911 to 1929.   Senator George P. McLean established the McLean Game Refuge in 1932 as a life sanctuary to preserve over 3,000 acres of meadows and forests he feared would be lost to development and resource exploitation. Today the wildlands have grown to over 4,400 acres, and protect hundreds of animal species. For more information, go to https://mcleancare.org/game-refuge/   To contact the author or to schedule a book talk, please go to: https://willgreeley.com   To purchase your copy of A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington, Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate, please go to the independent bookstores shown below: RJ Julia (all locations) Breakwater Books, Guilford, CT Books on the Common, Ridgefield, CT Byrd's Books, Bethel, CT To order online go to the RIT Press website: https://press.rit.edu/search-results-grid/?keyword=Mclean or Amazon.com   --------------------------------------------------------- Grating the Nutmeg, the podcast of Connecticut history is the winner of a 2023 Award of Merit for excellence from the Connecticut League of History Organizations.  We count on your support to be able to bring you fresh episodes of Grating the Nutmeg every two weeks. You can help us continue to produce the podcast by donating directly to Grating the Nutmeg on the Connecticut Explored website at ctexplored.org   Click the donate button at the top and then look for the Grating the Nutmeg donation link. We appreciate your donations in any amount -thank you!   This episode of Grating the Nutmeg was produced by Mary Donohue and engineered by Patrick O'Sullivan at www.highwattagemedia.com/   Join us in two weeks for our next episode of Grating the Nutmeg, the podcast of Connecticut history.

They're some of the greatest authors the province have ever seen... but do they read their reviews? These four Breakwater authors break their silence!Amanda Dorothy Jean Bulman, author of Salt Beef BucketsGemma Hickey, author of Almost FeralKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger WarningTom Moore, author of Goodbye MommaThis episode is the 32nd part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast July 26, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, Newfoundland. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Sometimes, authors form a unique connection to their work that borders on the spiritual, or mirrors a spiritual connection they feel in their lives. Today, Breakwater authors share if they have that connection with Write Project!Ainsley Hawthorn, Land of Many ShoresLisa Moore, editor of Hard TicketClaire Wilkshire, author of The Love OlympicsMorgan Murray, author of Dirty BirdsGemma Hickey, author of Almost FeralDaze Jefferies, contributor on Land of Many Shores  and TransVersing Kerri Cull, author of Rock Paper SexXavier Micheal-Campbell, contributor to Us, NowOlivia Robinson, author of Blue Moth MotelPaul David Power, author of CrippledShelley Kawaja, author of Raw Light of MorningDr Richard Elcock, contributor to Us, NowThis episode is the thirty-first part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on July 19, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.  Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Something ALWAYS ends up on the cutting room floor. Sometimes it's a character. Sometimes it's a chapter. Sometimes it's a whole plotline. In this episode, 10 Breakwater authors reveal what's missing from their novels!Featuring:Gemma Hickey, author of Almost FeralMorgan Murray, author of Dirty BirdsKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger WarningRebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen PartyMichelle Porter, author of Approaching FireOlivia Robinson, author of Blue Moth MotelPaul David Power, author of CrippledXavier Campbell, Tzu-Hao Hsu, and Richard Elcock, contributors to Us, NowThis episode is the twenty-seventh part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on July 12, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.  Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

On this episode of Write Project, 12 Breakwater Authors Admit Their Great Shame: They Google Themselves! And we have on an all-star cast of authors to answerRebecca Rose, President and PublisherAinsley Hawthorn, Land of Many ShoresRebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen PartyShiela Lukins, author of Bottom's UpTzu-Hao Hsu, contributor to Us, NowKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger WarningTom Moore, author of Goodbye MommaXavier Micheal- Campbell, contributor to Us, NowDr Richard Elcock, contributor to Us, NowBridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda JanesOlivia Robinson, author of Blue Moth MotelPaul David Power, author of CrippledOriginally broadcast on July 5, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the 26th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Emma Craig is a librarian at the AC Hunter Library, Morgan Murray is an author and also works with local publisher Breakwater Books, and Trudy Morgan-Cole is author of several books. All three joined us to talk Audiobook Appreciation Month.

Breakwater Authors: if you were going to be trapped on a dessert island for the rest of time and could only have three books with you to keep your mind occupied: what three books would they be?Rebecca Rose, President and PublisherAmanda Dorothy Jean Bulman, author of Salt Beef BucketsDerek Yetmen, author of The Yankee PrivateerTrudy J Morgan-Cole, author of A Roll of the BonesShelly Kawaja, author of The Raw Light of MorningDr Hasan Khalili, author of A Life Spent ListeningOriginally broadcast on June 28, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the 28th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Why do authors keep setting goals for themselves... then resetting the goal posts further once they achieve them? What is it about authors that makes us do that? In this episode of Write Project, we sit down with Breakwater Books' best to figure that out!Amanda Dorothy Jean Bulman, author of Salt Beef BucketsLisa Moore, editor of Hard TicketXavier Micheal- Campbell, contributor to Us, NowTzu-Hao Hsu, contributor to Us, NowBridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda JanesTrudy J Morgan-Cole, author of A Roll of the BonesRebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen PartyTracey Waddleton, author of Send More Tourists... The Last Ones Were DeliciousPaul David Power, author of CrippledThis episode is the 27th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

From the cover: On July 2, 2015, influential social activist Gemma Hickey began a 908-kilometer walk across the island of Newfoundland to raise awareness and funds for survivors of religious institutional abuse. Almost Feral celebrates the community of support that gathered around this journey and recounts Hickey's remarkable story of self-discovery which led to the realization that they are transgender. In this thought-provoking and wide-ranging autobiography, Hickey counters memories of sexual assault, bullying, and depression with inspiring reflections on faith, love, family, individual and communal identity, sex, gender, and acceptance. Through complex feelings of empathy and solitude, weakness and strength, suffering and recovery, Gemma Hickey's Almost Feral chronicles a journey from one side of an island to the other side of personal identity—charting an unknown territory where one's body becomes the map that leads to home.Pick up Almost Feral using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3ZwhtmrThis episode is the twenty-six part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on June 14, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.  Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

From the cover: On July 2, 2015, influential social activist Gemma Hickey began a 908-kilometer walk across the island of Newfoundland to raise awareness and funds for survivors of religious institutional abuse. Almost Feral celebrates the community of support that gathered around this journey and recounts Hickey's remarkable story of self-discovery which led to the realization that they are transgender. In this thought-provoking and wide-ranging autobiography, Hickey counters memories of sexual assault, bullying, and depression with inspiring reflections on faith, love, family, individual and communal identity, sex, gender, and acceptance. Through complex feelings of empathy and solitude, weakness and strength, suffering and recovery, Gemma Hickey's Almost Feral chronicles a journey from one side of an island to the other side of personal identity—charting an unknown territory where one's body becomes the map that leads to home.Pick up Almost Feral using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3ZwhtmrOriginally broadcast on June 07, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the twenty-fifth part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Breakwater authors reveal the first books that ever made them cry, tear up, get emotional! What books affect the people who write what affects you? Ainsley Hawthorne, Land of Many ShoresClaire Wilkshire, author of The Love OlympicsDaze Jefferies - Land of Many Shores / TransVersing Tracey Waddleton, author of Send More Tourists... The Last Ones Were DeliciousKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger WarningMichelle Porter, author of Approaching FireBridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda JanesRebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen PartyOlivia Robinson, author of Blue Moth MotelPaul David Power, author of CrippledLisa Moore, editor of Hard TicketMorgan Murray, author of Dirty BirdsOriginally broadcast on May 31, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the 24th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Andie Bulman is a chef, writer and comedian in St. John's. She is the author of the book Salt Beef Buckets: A Love Story and writes frequently for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador.Pick up Salt Beef Buckets using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3mx75fjThis episode is the 22nd part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on May 17, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.  Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Andie Bulman is a chef, writer and comedian in St. John's. She is the author of the book Salt Beef Buckets: A Love Story and writes frequently for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador.Pick up Salt Beef Buckets using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3mx75fjThis episode is the 21st part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on May 10, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.  Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Andie Bulman is a chef, writer and comedian in St. John's. She is the author of the book Salt Beef Buckets: A Love Story and writes frequently for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador.Pick up Salt Beef Buckets using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3mx75fjThis episode is the 20th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources.Originally broadcast on May 3, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.  Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Daze Jefferies,  author of 'TransVersing' and contributor to 'Land of Many Shores,' both published through Breakwater Books and 'Acceptance: Stories at the Centre of Us' published through Engen Books.Pick up Land of Many Shores using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3F8HQ9EOriginally broadcast on April 26, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the seventeenth part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Kerri Cull, poet behind Soak. Kerri Cull is from the small mill town of Corner Brook on the West Coast of Newfoundland. She has been a bartender, bookseller, waitress, administrator, radio show host, columnist, instructor, and is the creator of The Book Fridge. She currently lives in Labrador.Pick up Rock Paper Sex using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3ZFrNZqOriginally broadcast on April 19, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the 17th part of a fifty-episode series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Comics can return a long-studied writer to the purest form of reading: reading for enjoyment. Reading for the sake of reading. Today, thirteen richly talented Breakwater authors reveal their favorite comic book (or comic book character)!Rebecca Rose, President & PublisherAinsley Hawthorne,  Land of Many ShoresKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger WarningClaire Wilkshire, author of The Love OlympicsDerek Yetmen, author of The Yankee PrivateerPrajwala Dixit, author of Tales of the DwipaGemma Hickey, author of Almost FeralDaze Jefferies - Land of Many Shores / TransVersingDr Hasan Khalili, author of A Life Spent ListeningXavier Micheal- Campbell, contributor to Us, NowTzu-Hao Hsu, contributor to Us, NowKevin Major, author of Four for FogoAmanda Dorothy Jean Bulman, author of Salt Beef BucketsOriginally broadcast on April 12, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the 14th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Daze Jefferies,  author of 'TransVersing' and contributor to 'Land of Many Shores,' both published through Breakwater Books and 'Acceptance: Stories at the Centre of Us' published through Engen Books.Pick up Land of Many Shores using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3F8HQ9EOriginally broadcast on April 05, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the sixteenth part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

We all have things we'd like to change about our writing style. If you could go back and whisper something to your younger writing-self, what would it be? If you could impart that to a new author in the industry, what would you say?Featuring:Rebecca Rose, President and Publisher Claire Wilkshire, author of The Love OlympicsPrajwala Dixit, author of The Tales of DwipaGemma Hickey, author of Almost FeralKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger WarningBridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda Janes Gareth Mitton, contributor to About FaceOriginally broadcast on March 29, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the 12th part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Every so often, a special book comes along that changes what we think about fiction. What it can do. What it can accomplish. These books are especially poignant for authors, at it affects how we live out lives. How we craft our stories. 8 authors share these moments with you.Featuring: Rebecca Rose, President and PublisherDaze Jefferies - Land of Many Shores / TransVersing / 'Acceptance' with Quadrangle NL (Engen Books)Kerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger WarningKevin Major, author of Four for FogoBridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda JanesRebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen PartyTzu-Hao Hsu, contributor to Us, NowDr Richard Elcock, contributor to Us, NowPaul David Power, author of CrippledOriginally broadcast on March 22, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the eleventh part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Warm, funny, and stylistically savvy, these stories follow an interlocking set of characters and the people they love.Characters weave their way in and out of The Love Olympics, a collection of short fiction set in St. John's. The book is about various forms of love—the ways love grips us, shakes us, releases or envelops us. The stories are smart, witty, funny, warm, and surprising; they capture the preoccupations of characters from different generations who are closely or only tangentially connected to one another. This collection explores people's aspirations, fears, and vulnerabilities; their generosity and desire for connection; their willingness to see past flaws and appreciate other human beings in all their complexity. Pick up The Love Olympics using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3yI63jL Originally broadcast on March 8, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the ninth part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Ainsley Hawthorn, Ph.D., (she/her) is a cultural historian, author, and multidisciplinary artist. Raised in Steady Brook, NL, and now based in St. John's, she earned her doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. Her expertise includes sensory studies, Mesopotamian literature and religion, Middle Eastern dance, and the history of language. Hawthorn is a past fellow of Distant Worlds (Munich) and the Advanced Seminar in the Humanities (Venice), and she has been invited to lecture on her research at universities in Germany, Austria, Italy, Canada, and the United States. Hawthorn is passionate about using her academic knowledge to bring new ideas about culture, history, and religion to a general audience. As a public scholar, she blogs for Psychology Today, writes for CBC, and has contributed to various other publications, including The Globe and Mail, the National Post, and the Newfoundland Quarterly. She is currently completing her first solo-authored non-fiction book, The Other Five Senses.Pick up Land of Many Shores using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3F8HQ9EOriginally broadcast on March 1, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the eighth part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Seeing through the eyes of others brings new perspective on the place we call home. In Land of Many Shores, writers share their essays about life in Newfoundland and Labrador from often-neglected viewpoints. In this collection, Indigenous people, cultural minorities, LGBTQ+, people living with mental or physical disabilities and other undervalued and hidden voices are coming to the forefront, with personal, poignant, celebratory and critical visions of the land we live on.From workers in the sex industry to non-Christian faithful, from the descendants of settlers from other lands to the Indigenous people of this land, the variety of experience against the backdrop of Newfoundland and Labrador provides food for thought—and celebration of diversity.Pick up Land of Many Shores using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3F8HQ9E Originally broadcast on February 22, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the seventh part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Shelly Kawaja's writing has appeared in several journals and literary magazines, such as the Humber Literary Review, the Dalhousie Review, Post-Colonial Text, and PACE. Her short story “Shotgun” won the gritLit 2020 fiction contest. Shelly has an MA from Memorial University and is currently completing an MFA in creative writing at UBC. She lives in Norris Point and manages the Writers at Woody Point literary festival, which happens every summer on the other side of Bonne Bay Pond. On nice days she Sea-Doos to work.Originally broadcast on February 15, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Pick up The Raw Light of Morning using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3JnJruSThis episode is the sixth part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Claire Wilkshire is a writer, editor, translator and teacher living in St. John's with her husband, writer Larry Mathews. They have two adult children. Maxine (2013) is Claire's first novel. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Grain, the New Quarterly, Event, and the Fiddlehead. She's a founding member of the Burning Rock writing group.Pick up The Love Olympics using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3yI63jLOriginally broadcast on February 8, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the fifth part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Seeing through the eyes of others brings new perspective on the place we call home. In Land of Many Shores, writers share their essays about life in Newfoundland and Labrador from often-neglected viewpoints. In this collection, Indigenous people, cultural minorities, LGBTQ+, people living with mental or physical disabilities and other undervalued and hidden voices are coming to the forefront, with personal, poignant, celebratory and critical visions of the land we live on.From workers in the sex industry to non-Christian faithful, from the descendants of settlers from other lands to the Indigenous people of this land, the variety of experience against the backdrop of Newfoundland and Labrador provides food for thought—and celebration of diversity.Pick up Land of Many Shores using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3F8HQ9EOriginally broadcast on February 01, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. This episode is the fourth part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Shelly Kawaja's writing has appeared in several journals and literary magazines, such as the Humber Literary Review, the Dalhousie Review, Post-Colonial Text, and PACE. Her short story “Shotgun” won the gritLit 2020 fiction contest. Shelly has an MA from Memorial University and is currently completing an MFA in creative writing at UBC. She lives in Norris Point and manages the Writers at Woody Point literary festival, which happens every summer on the other side of Bonne Bay Pond. On nice days she Sea-Doos to work.Originally broadcast on January 25, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.Pick up The Raw Light of Morning using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3JnJruS This episode is the second part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Kerri Cull author of Rock Paper Sex and Rock Paper Sex: Trigger Warning published through Breakwater Books!Kerri Cull is from the small mill town of Corner Brook on the West Coast of Newfoundland. She has been a bartender, bookseller, waitress, administrator, radio show host, columnist, instructor, and is the creator of The Book Fridge. She currently lives in Labrador.Originally broadcast on January 18, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Pick up Rock Paper Sex using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3YAsPEDThis episode is the second part of a fifty-episode Write Project sub-series celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Breakwater Books! Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the vibrant literary culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then, we've continued our commitment to Newfoundland and Labrador writers while expanding our focus to feature emerging and well-known authors from across Canada and overseas. Breakwater publishes award-winning writing in all literary genres—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, art, young adult and children's books, as well as cookbooks, guidebooks and educational resources. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showListen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Writing is hard, and very few people get to do it as their sole source of income. We sit down with six popular writers and ask how long they were doing that grind before they went full time... if they have at all!Featuring:From Breakwater Books Ltd.:Kevin Major, author of Three for TrinityDaze Jefferies, contributor of Land of Many ShoresKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper SexFrom Marvel Comics:Jed Mackay, author of Moon Knight and Amazing Spider-ManAlso featuring:JRH Lawless, author of Always Greenerand: Sal, from ComicPop!Originally broadcast on September 13, 2022 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen Universe signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTThis recording Copyright © 2022 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Amanda Dorothy Jean Bulman, author of Salt Beef Buckets: A Love Story, from Breakwater Books!Originally broadcast on July 18, 2022 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.Amanda Dorothy Jean Bulman is a chef, writer, stand-up comic, and librarian. She believes passionately in teaching farming, foraging, and food skills to young people. You can find her work online with CBC and in Harrowsmith magazine. Also, she makes the best biscuits in the world.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2022 Matthew LeDrew

On this episode of Write Project, we sit down with the authors of the most serious literary book of 2022 and ask them the silliest, most childish questions possible... sounds like fun! Featuring Gemma Hickey, Ainsley Hawthorn, Daze Jefferies, and Paul David Power, the authors of Land of Many Shores from Breakwater Books Ltd.!Originally broadcast on July 4, 2022 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2022 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Prajwala Dixit, author of The Tales of Dwipa, published through Breakwater Books!Originally broadcast on June 06, 2022 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2022 Matthew LeDrew

Santiago Guzmán (he/him) is a writer, performer, director and producer for theatre and film originally from Metepec, Mexico, now based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Santiago is the Artistic Director of TODOS Productions, an organization that seeks to promote, produce, and support work of under-represented artists in Newfoundland and Labrador. ​ He is the Artistic Associate for Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre in Halifax, NS and General Manager for Neighbourhood Dance Works in St. John's, NL. He is a proud member of The Quilted Collective, whose first anthology, Us, Now, has been published by Breakwater Books in 2021. www.sguzman.ca Twitter: @santiguzjan Instagram: @santig1 Support Stageworthy Tip Jar: tips.pinecast.com/jar/stageworthy

On this episode of Write Project, 10 Authors Admit Their Great Shame: They Google Themselves! And we have on an all-star cast of authors to answer!Featuring:From Engen Books Ltd.:Heather Reilly, author of Binding of the AlmatraekRhea Rollman, author of Queer History of NewfoundlandBrad Dunne, author of The Merchant's MansionPaul Carberry, author of CarcharodonEllen Curtis, author of InfinityFrom Breakwater Books Ltd.:Bridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda JanesAinsley Hawthorn, author of Land of Many ShoresRebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen PartyKerri Cull, author of Rock Paper SexAnd Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland & Labrador Youth Rep:Jason Normore.Originally broadcast on May 23, 2022 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2022 Matthew LeDrew

#BuddyRead! We had a fun time talking with our Mystery Man, JOHN VALERI, about Agatha Christie's DEATH ON THE NILE, both her novel and Kenneth Branagh's new adaptation. Spoiler alert: mixed reviews. Other books we read and discuss in this episode did not have mixed reviews. We both had some good reads! THOMAS MERTON: An Introduction to His Life, Teachings, and Practices by Jon M. Sweeney (audio) THE YEAR OF THE HORSES by Courtney Maum EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD by Emily Austin MARRYING THE KETCHUPS by Jennifer Close LUCKY GIRL, HOW I BECAME A HORROR WRITER: A KRAMPUS STORY by M. Rickert PYTHON FOR EVERYBODY by Charles Severence We also had some outstanding #biblioadventures both online and in person. We especially enjoyed celebrating Independent Bookstore Day close to home at Breakwater Books and Syd's Book Shack. What are we reading now? Several things, including the current Book Cougars readalong book, TWO OLD WOMEN by Velma Wallis. We hope you enjoy! And if you do enjoy, please consider leaving a review wherever you listen to us. Reviews can help other listeners find the podcast. Thanks!

Interview with Daze Jefferies,  author of 'TransVersing' and contributor to 'Land of Many Shores,' both published through Breakwater Books and 'Acceptance: Stories at the Centre of Us' published through Engen Books. Originally broadcast on April 4, 2022 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2022 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Gemma Hickey, author of Almost Feral and contributor to Land of Many Shores, both published through Breakwater Books. Originally broadcast on March 07, 2022 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at https://www.chmr.ca/ This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at https://www.engenbooks.com/Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2022 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Ainsley Hawthorn, editor of 'Land of Many Shores' published through Breakwater Books, contributing author to 'Mythology from the Rock' from Engen Books, co-author of 'Apocalypse Then' on CBC, and current President of the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador (WritersNL)!Originally broadcast on February 07, 2022 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! http://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2022 Matthew LeDrew

This hour on Where We Live, we look into strategies that build resilience in local bookstores and discuss pandemic book launches. Long-time indie bookshops continue to stay afloat and even thrive despite the ongoing pandemic. Amazon controls more than half of the market for print books and at least three-quarters of publishers' ebook sales. We also talk to booksellers about trends, including eliminating or reducing inventory-holding costs by selling on Bookstore.org –the Amazon for indies.  The American Booksellers Association (ABA) lists the top five trends for indie bookstores in 2022. According to the ABA, nationally, 250 indie bookstores opened, and 98 closed in 2020 and 2021. Here is a list of Connecticut's indie bookstores: Barrett Bookstore, Darien (since 1939) Hickory Stick Bookshop, Washington Depot (since 1951) Breakwater Books, Guilford (since 1972) Atticus Books, Middletown (since 1975) Bloodroot, Bridgeport (since 1977) Books on the Common, Ridgefield (since 1984) RJ Julia, Madison, (since 1990) Bank Square Books, Mystic (since 1998) Book Trader Cafe, New Haven (since 1998) Elm Street Books, New Canaan, (since 2003)  A New Page, Middletown (since 2003) Burgundy Books, Old Saybrook (since 2005) New bookstore openings in Connecticut include:  Title IX: A Bookstore, a pop-up bookshop in New London  The Key Bookstore's brick-and-mortar bookshop in Hartford  Athena Books in Old Greenwich Pink Wave Books & Cafe (online)  Wordsmith Bookshop, scheduled to open in Simsbury in May  Reader's Block, opened in Stratford Book Club on the Go (online, pop-ups, book delivery) New York's Shakespeare & Co., expected to open its first Connecticut bookshop in Norwalk. Also, plans are underway to launch Next Chapter Books and More, an ELITE (Educating Learners In Transition Environment) Program's student-run bookstore and coffee shop in Trumbull. Several of the new bookshops sell to under-represented communities, and all are focussed on building a local third space. We discuss the ‘doing well by doing good' indie business model. Will it endure? We also look into store closures and fundraisers to keep indies open. That Book Store in Wethersfield and Elliot's Bookstore in Northford are among those that shut down, while fundraisers are underway to reopen New Haven's Never Ending Books, and to keep Bennett's Books in Deep River open. GUESTS: Khamani Harrison: Founder & Owner of The Key Bookstore – An AfroFuturistic Bookstore in Hartford Lauren Anderson: Co-founder & Co-owner, People Get Ready, New Haven Roxanne Coady: Founder of RJ Julia, and CEO and founder of Just the Right Book Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interview with Kerri Cull author of Rock Paper Sex and Rock Paper Sex: Trigger Warning published through Breakwater Books!Kerri Cull is from the small mill town of Corner Brook on the West Coast of Newfoundland. She has been a bartender, bookseller, waitress, administrator, radio show host, columnist, instructor, and is the creator of The Book Fridge. She currently lives in Labrador.Originally broadcast on January 31, 2022 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2022 Matthew LeDrew

It's the holiday season! Time to binge watch shows, read ALL the books piling up on our nightstands and listen to podcasts on the long drive to grandma's house. Today on Where We Live, we talk about the best podcasts, shows and books of 2021. NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans joins us to share his favorite TV shows of 2021. Later, we hear from one of the owners of Breakwater Books in Guilford, Connecticut and hear what books were standouts in 2021. We want to hear from you, Where We Live. What are you binge watching, listening and reading over this holiday season? GUESTS: Eric Deggans - NPR's TV Critic Richard Parent - Co-owner of Breakwater Books in Guilford Connecticut Emma Carey - freelance culture and entertainment writer, and weekly contributor to Esquire Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interview with Kevin Major author of the new book Three for Trinity published through Breakwater Books, as well as Hold Fast, Blood Red Ochre, and more!Kevin is an author from Newfoundland. After graduating from Memorial University in 1972, he worked as a teacher before turning to writing full-time in 1989. While he now writes for an adult readership, he is also known as an author of children's literature, work for which he has been widely awarded and praised. He received the Vicky Metcalf Award for an outstanding body of work in 1992.Originally broadcast on December 6, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

9 Questions with Olivia Robinson author of The Blue Moth Motel both published through Breakwater Books!Olivia Robinson was born in the Annapolis Valley and moved to PEI with her family. She blossomed as a creative writer not among the Valley's orchards, but on the Island and at UPEI, and then at Memorial University and in Newfoundland and Labrador's literary community.Originally broadcast on November 29, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Kevin Major author of the new book Three for Trinity both published through Breakwater Books, as well as Hold Fast, Blood Red Ochre, and more!Kevin is an author from Newfoundland. After graduating from Memorial University in 1972, he worked as a teacher before turning to writing full-time in 1989. While he now writes for an adult readership, he is also known as an author of children's literature, work for which he has been widely awarded and praised. He received the Vicky Metcalf Award for an outstanding body of work in 1992.Originally broadcast on November 15, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Questions with Olivia Robinson author of 'The Blue Moth Motel' published through Breakwater Books!Olivia Robinson was born in the Annapolis Valley and moved to PEI with her family. She blossomed as a creative writer not among the Valley's orchards, but on the Island and at UPEI, and then at Memorial University and in Newfoundland and Labrador's literary community.Originally broadcast on Nov 8 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen Universe signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Olivia Robinson author of 'The Blue Moth Motel' published through Breakwater Books!Olivia Robinson was born in the Annapolis Valley and moved to PEI with her family. She blossomed as a creative writer not among the Valley's orchards, but on the Island and at UPEI, and then at Memorial University and in Newfoundland and Labrador's literary community.Originally broadcast on November 1, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Us, Now  is a collection of stories connecting Newfoundland and Labrador to the world via racialized Newfoundlanders. These are stories that fit George Elliot Clarke's thinking on what a truly Canadian national tale might be: local, yet connected, broadly and diversely. But at its core, this book, as editor Lisa Moore sagely wrote, “is a book about belonging. Sometimes in these stories, belonging is fragile and fought for, but the act of writing from a place and about a place is belonging—the sometimes sacred, sometimes scary act of witnessing means writers always stand apart and, at the same time, are a part of.”Originally broadcast on October 18, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen Universe signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Paul David Power, the astonishing playwright behind 'Crippled' and contributor to 'Land of Many Shores,' both published through Breakwater Books!Originally broadcast on Sep 27 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen Universe signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Paul David Power, the astonishing playwright behind 'Crippled' and contributor to 'Land of Many Shores,' both published through Breakwater Books!Paul David Power is a Canadian actor, playwright and theatre director from Newfoundland and Labrador, whose play Crippled was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2021 Governor General's Awards.Crippled, about a gay disabled man coping with grief following the death of his partner, was based in part on his own experiences following the death of his partner, Jonathan, in 2013. Power himself has a disability which requires him to use leg braces and crutches to walk.The play was first produced for the stage in 2018, with Power performing the lead role himself, and was published by Breakwater Books in 2021. A planned production in San Francisco in 2019 was halted under complicated American rules which require foreign theatre artists to have their work bureaucratically judged as "culturally unique" before they can be granted a work permit. In 2022, the play was mounted at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto, with Power playing the lead role.Power is the artistic director of his own theatre company, Power Productions, which specializes in stage plays about disability. His other plays have included Roomies, Last Chance, The View from Down Here and In Your Eyes.Originally broadcast on September 20, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with acclaimed poet Michelle Porter, author of Approaching Fire and Inquiries from Breakwater Books.Michelle Porter is a Red River Métis poet, journalist, and editor. She holds degrees in journalism, folklore, and geography (PhD). She's won awards for her work in poetry and journalism, and has been published in literary journals, newspapers, and magazines across the country. She lives in St. John's.Originally broadcast on September 13, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

The final podcast in our questions series with Dr. Richard Elcock, Xaiver Michael Campbell, Tzu-Hao Hsu and Lisa Moore, the authors and editor behind Us, Now from Breakwater Books.Originally broadcast on August 30, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Questions with the writers and editor of Us, Now from Breakwater Books.Originally broadcast on August 23, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​This recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Questions with the writers and editor of Us, Now from Breakwater Books.Originally broadcast on Aug 16 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen Universe signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Questions with the writers and editor of Us, Now from Breakwater Books.Originally broadcast on Aug 2 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen Universe signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with  Dr. Richard Elcock, Us Now (2021, Breakwater Books).Originally broadcast on July 26 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen Universe signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with  Xavier Michael Campbell, Now (2021, Breakwater Books).Originally broadcast on July 19 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen Universe signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with  Tzu-Hao Hsu from Us, Now (2021, Breakwater Books).Born in Taiwan and raised in Newfoundland, Tzu-Hao Hsu arrived in St. John's with her family more than twenty-five years ago and is a proud Taiwanese Townie. Tzu-Hao received both her Bachelor of Commerce and Masters of Business Administration Degrees from Memorial University, and is currently a business manager by trade. She is active in the local multicultural community as a presenter and performer, and has served on the boards of several not for profit organizations. Tzu-Hao has continued to explore her cultural heritage and identity through writing and dance, drawing inspiration from both her childhood home and here on the Rock.Originally broadcast on July 12, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Gerard Collins is the author of The Hush Sisters, out in October from Breakwater Books.

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Episode One Hundred Four Show Notes We are excited to announce that we are now an affiliate of Libro.fm audiobook platform: Listeners can receive three months for the price of one. Follow this link to learn more.– 14th Readalong discussion– Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE.– Currently Reading –Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers – edited Natalie Eve Garrett (EF)Empire of Wild – Cherie Dimaline (CW) release date July 28, 2020Building Your Ideal Private Practice – Lynn Grodzki (CW)(audio)– Just Read –Friends and Strangers – J. Courtney Sullivan (EF) release date June 30, 2020Mother Land – Lea Franqui (EF) release date July 14, 2020Shelter – Jung Yun (EF) (audio)Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism – Dr. Maysa Akbar (EF)– Biblio Adventures –We had a joint jaunt as GUESTS on Our Mystery Man John Valeri’s YouTube channel, Central Booking. You can watch the interview HERE.Emily attended an event through The Strand Bookstore. Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half, was in conversation with Gloria Edim, author of Well-Read Black Girl.Chris attended the 65th Annual Willa Cather spring conference: Untethered Cather on the Cusp of the 1920’s. The focus this year was on Cather’s book of short stories Youth and the Bright Medusa. She enjoyed sessions that included author Erica Ryan discussing her book When the World Broke in Two: The Roaring Twenties and the Dawn of America’s Culture Wars and Alex Ross discussing his book releasing on September 15, 2020, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music.Chris browsed inside two bookstores, Breakwater Books in Guilford,CT where she purchased How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson. She also visited Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT.– Upcoming Jaunts –Emily will be attending a virtual event via Politics & Prose with Megha Mujumdar, author of A Burning, in conversation with C. Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills is Gold. Chris will attend a virtual event on June 10 at Savoy Bookshop & Café. Erica Ruth Neubaur will discuss her book Murder at Mena House with Juliet Grames. Read Chris’s review here.On June 11, Chris will tune in to hear author Irene Butter discuss her book Shores Beyond Shores via CapRadio Reads. You can register here.– Upcoming Reads –Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts (EF)How to Write Non-Fiction: Turn Your Knowledge Into Words – Joana Penn (CW)– Author Spotlight with Jung Yun –We were thrilled to welcome author Jung Yun to discuss her book, Shelter.You can learn more about Jung here including news about her forthcoming novel, O Beautiful.– Also Mentioned –All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony DoerrThe Marrow Thieves – Cherie DimalineTwelve Months To Your Ideal Private Practice: A Workbook – Lynn Grodzki Matterhorn – Karl MarlantesThe Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century – Alex RossKramerbooks Book By Book BlogThe Creative Pen podcastPurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle!We are an affiliate of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookstore & Café. Please purchase books from them and support us at the same time. Click HERE to start shopping.If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email bookcougars@gmail.com for instructions.Join our Goodreads Group! We have a BookTube Channel – please check it out here, and be sure to subscribe!Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.

Episode Ninety Nine Show Notes KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine– Lucky 13th Readalong discussion– Go, Went, Gone – Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Susan Bernofsky)The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HEREOur conversation about the book will air on May 26th– Currently Reading –The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett (EF) release date June 2, 2020The Odyssey – Homer (translated by Emily Wilson) (CW)the audio version by Clare Danes can be found here– Just Read –One Moonlit Night – Caradog Prichard (translated by Philip Mitchell) (CW)You can learn more about the Wales Readathon 2020 HEREHide Away – Jason Pinter (EF)The Woman in the Dark – Vanessa Savage (CW)I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives – Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch (EF)Two Friends – Willa Cather (CW)Be a part of the Willa Cather Short Story Project HEREThe Giant’s House – Elizabeth McCracken (EF)Murder at the Mena House – Erica Ruth Neubauer (CW)– Biblio Adventures –Chris did some curbside book shopping at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison and Breakwater Books in Guilford and drove by the renovation project of the Scranton Public Library in Madison.Emily has been enjoying listening to various authors on social media reading aloud and reminisced about reading Summerland by Michael Chabon to her children back in the day.– Upcoming Jaunts –Emily plans to start Little Fires Everywhere streaming on HULU based on the novel of the same name by Celest Ng.Chris is meeting with her bookclub virtually to discuss The Gardens of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr and also Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life: The Plant’s and Places that Inspired the Iconic Poet by Marta McDowell.A Mighty Blaze virtual book tour brought to you by Caroline Leavitt and Jenna Blum– Upcoming Reads –U-505: The Final Journey – James E. Wise (CW)The Secrets We Kept – Lara Prescott (CW)(EF)– Also Mentioned –Try a free 30 day trial to ScribdThe Mothers – Brit Bennett / Emily discussed this book on Episode 8 and Episode 35Ain’t Nobody Nobody – Heather Harper EllettYou can learn more about Jason Pinter’s Henry Parker series HERE Amityville Horror – Jay AnsonGrey Matter BooksMuseum of Science and Industry, ChicagoPurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! We are an affiliate of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookstore & Café. Please purchase books from them and support us at the same time. Click HERE to start shopping.If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email bookcougars@gmail.com for instructions.Join our Goodreads Group! We have a BookTube Channel – please check it out here, and be sure to subscribe!Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.

Interview with Morgan Murray, author of 'Dirty Birds' from Breakwater Books.Morgan Murray was born and raised on a farm near the same west-central Alberta village as figure-skating legend Kurt Browning (Caroline). He now lives, works, plays, writes, and builds all sorts of crooked furniture in Cape Breton. In between, he has been a professional schemer, a farmer, a rancher, a roustabout, a secretary, a reporter, a designer, a Tweeter, and a student in St. John's, Calgary, Prague, Montreal, Chicoutimi, and Paris. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Canadian Studies from the University of Calgary, a Certificate in Central and Eastern European Studies from the University of Economics, Prague, a Master of Philosophy in Humanities from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a participation ribbon for beef-calf showmanship (incomplete) from the Little Britches 4-H Club.Originally broadcast on March 23 2020 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at https://www.chmr.ca/This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at https://www.engenbooks.com/Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen Universe signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTThis recording Copyright © 2020 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Morgan Murray, author of 'Dirty Birds' from Breakwater Books.Morgan Murray was born and raised on a farm near the same west-central Alberta village as figure-skating legend Kurt Browning (Caroline). He now lives, works, plays, writes, and builds all sorts of crooked furniture in Cape Breton. In between, he has been a professional schemer, a farmer, a rancher, a roustabout, a secretary, a reporter, a designer, a Tweeter, and a student in St. John's, Calgary, Prague, Montreal, Chicoutimi, and Paris. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Canadian Studies from the University of Calgary, a Certificate in Central and Eastern European Studies from the University of Economics, Prague, a Master of Philosophy in Humanities from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a participation ribbon for beef-calf showmanship (incomplete) from the Little Britches 4-H Club.Originally broadcast on March 16, 2020 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at https://www.chmr.ca/ This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at https://www.engenbooks.com/Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2020 Matthew LeDrew

Episode Ninety Show Notes CW = Chris WolakEF = Emily FinePurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle!We are an affiliate of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookstore & Café. Please purchase books from them and support us at the same time. Click HERE to start shopping.If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email bookcougars@gmail.com for instructions.Join our Goodreads Group!We have a BookTube Channel – please check it out here, and be sure to subscribe!Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.– 90th Episode Giveaway – enter to win by December 1, 2019Through the Bookstore Window – Bill PetrocelliIn Pieces – Sally FieldKingdom of the Blind – Louise Penny– Currently Reading –Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder – Caroline Fraser (CW) Farmer Boy – Laura Ingalls Wilder (CW)The Great Santini – Pat Conroy (EF)– Just Read –Little House in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder illustrated by Garth Williams( CW)This Tender Land – William Kent Kreuger (EF)Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo (CW)Friday Black – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (EF)Women Who Think Too Much: How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life – Susan Nolen-Hoeksema (CW)The Last Book Party – Karen Dukess (EF)Smedley – Jeff McComsey (CW)Red at the Bone – Jaqueline Woodson (EF) (audio)– Biblio Adventures –Chris and Emily went on a joint jaunt to Happier Hour an Evening with Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Craft hosts of the Happier Podcast in Providence, RI. You can look for their upcoming events HERE.Chris went to see Richard J. King at Bank Square Books to hear him discuss his new book Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of “Moby-Dick” .Emily went to the Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival highlights included:The Price of Everything movie – director Nathaniel KahnAuthors: Lionel Shriver, Deborah Eisenberg, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, David W. Blight, Judge Richard Gergel, Joyce Carol Oates, Rebecca Makkai, Bill Goldstein. She also visited Buxton Books and Blue Bicycle Books in Charleston.Emily went to Breakwater Books to hear Juliet Grames discuss her book The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna.– Holiday Gift Ideas –1. Custom Embossed Leather Notebook2. Panasonic Earbuds with microphone model RP-TCM125-K3. Literary Card Decks4. Believer Magazine5. Rolling Library Cart (check out these suppliers: Demco, Brodart, The Library Store)6. DIY project: watercolor paper and put quotes on them. Cut them into small pieces and place magnets behind or make into bookmarks. 7. Take a friend on a bookish jaunt– Also Mentioned –Gibson’s BookstoreSouth of Broad – Pat ConroyBear Pond BooksStuart Little – EB WhiteOrdinary Grace – William Kent KreugerInk and Paper Blog BooktubeFubar, Volume 2: Empire of the Rising Dead – Jeff McComseyWar is a Racket – General Smedley D. ButlerThe Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History – Richard King

Interview with author Susan MacDonald, author of The Tyon Collective from Breakwater Books!Susan Macdonald's Edge of Time, the first book in The Tyon Collective series, won The Moonbeam Award (US) for best young-adult science fiction. Book two, Time of Treason, was shortlisted for the Bruneau Family Foundation Children's/YA Literature Award. She's married, has two children, two dogs, and lives in St. John's.Originally broadcast on Nov 25 2019 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen Universe signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTThis recording Copyright © 2019 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Ainsley Hawthorn, then-Vice President of WANL (Writer'sNL)Ainsley Hawthorn, Ph.D., is an author and cultural historian based in St. John's. Her first non-fiction book, The Other Five Senses, is supported by a grant from ArtsNL and represented by The Margret McBride Literary Agency. She is also editing an anthology called "Land of Many Shores: Stories from a Diverse Newfoundland and Labrador" for Breakwater Books and is a regular contributor to CBC and the Newfoundland Quarterly online.Originally broadcast on Nov 11 2019 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2019 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Rebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen Party from Breakwater Books Ltd.!Rebecca North is the author of A Picnic at the Lighthouse and Elliot and the Impossible Fish, finalist for the Bruneau Family Children's/YA Award Rebecca grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario. She is the mother of two young children and spends many hours reading and re-reading picture books. Laurel Keating is a self-taught and award-winning artist whose illustration work has appeared in several children's books: Yaffle's Journey, Elliot and the Impossible Fish, Moose's Roof, and Full Speed Ahead: Errol's Bell Island Adventure, to name a few.  A native Newfoundlander and animal lover, she lives in Portugal Cove, which she has called home all her life.Originally broadcast on Sept 16 2019 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen Universe signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTThis recording Copyright © 2019 Matthew LeDrew

Bridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda Janes.Bridget Canning's debut novel, The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes, was selected as a finalist for the 2017 BMO Winterset Award, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, the NL Fiction Award, and was longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award. It is currently being adapted to film. Her second novel, Some People's Children, was a finalist for the 2020 BMO Winterset Award and the Thomas Raddall Award. Her third book and first short story collection, No One Knows About Us, will be published by Breakwater Books in 2022. Bridget holds a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing from Memorial University and a Masters of Literacy Education from Mount Saint Vincent University. In 2019, she received the CBC Emerging Artist Award with ArtsNL. She grew up in Highlands, NL and currently lives in St. John's. Originally broadcast on April 08, 2019 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2019 Matthew LeDrew.

Featuring Rod Pyle, author of Space 2.0: How Private Spaceflight, a Resurgent NASA, and International Partners are Creating a New Space Age; serial tech entrepreneur, Michael Peres; & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter Download NASA expert, Rod Pyle, author of Space 2.0: How Private Spaceflight, a Resurgent NASA, and International Partners are Creating a New Space Age, which takes a look at where space exploration is heading in the next two decades. Web developer and serial tech entrepreneur, Michael Peres, on his new web-series called Travelpreneurs: Breaking The 9 To 5.  You can also find him on Instagram as @mike.514. Stuart Nulman with another edition of Book Banter. This week’s reviewed title is Game by Joan Sullivan (Breakwater Books, $19.95).You can also read Stuart’s reviews in The Montreal Times. Also mentioned on the show was the Astronomers Without Borders two hour special I co-hosted with science writer Andrew Fazekas called Watch the Moon Turn Red: A Total Lunar Eclipse. It was streamed live on Sunday, January 20th, the night of the Lunar Eclipse, but you can still watch it on YouTube. This week’s opening slate is presented Geeta Nadkarni, a former media personality turned business coach, helping people monetize their purpose. She helps entrepreneurs position themselves at a premium and then use uncommon PR techniques to influence buyers around the world. You can reach her on Instagram as @lifewithgeeta.

Episode Fifty Five Show NotesCW = Chris WolakEF = Emily FineJoin our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page.Giveaway!Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women – Anne Boyd Rioux (release date August 21st)to enter: email us by July 31, 2018 – bookcougars@gmail.comPurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle!– Currently Reading/Listening –Middlemarch – George Eliot (CW)The Masterpiece – Fiona Davis (EF)Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women – Anne Boyd Rioux (CW)(EF) release date August 21st– Just Read –The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After – Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil (EF)Chris DNF’d: The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House – Ben Rhodes (CW)Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life – Barbara Kingsolver (EF) (audio)Transcendental Wild Oats – Louisa May Alcott (CW)One of Ours – Willa Cather (CW)– Biblio Adventures –Chris and Emily went to Concord, MA and visited:Concord Public LibraryBarrow Bookstore – there audio series can be found hereConcord BookshopSally Ann Food ShopOrchard House – the home of Louisa May Alcott. To become a member click here.Ralph Waldo Emerson HouseThe Old ManseSleepy Hollow CemeteryEmily went to Breakwater Books to see Carl Zimmer discuss his book She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of HeredityJuly 19th Chris will be hosting the Willa Cather Book Club at Bookclub Bookstore & MoreEmily watched two movies:Me Before You based on the book by Jo Jo MoyesJack Reacher based on the book by Lee Child– Upcoming Jaunts – Chris is heading to Chicago and plans to go see the American Writers Museum and the Gwendolyn Brooks statueEmily is heading to Vermont and plans to go to: The Flying Pig Bookstore in Shelburne, VT, Crow Bookshop and the Chubby Muffin in Burlington, VTJuly 19th Chris will be hosting the Willa Cather Book Club at Bookclub Bookstore & MoreJuly 28th – Dewey’s ReadathonSeptember 15th – Chris will moderate a session with Kimberly McCreight, author of the Outliers Trilogy, at Book Club Bookstore & More.– Upcoming Reads –Middlemarch – George Eliot(CW)Carnegie’s Maid – Marie Benedict (EF)– Readalong –March – Geraldine Brooks (CW)(EF)– Also Mentioned –Pilgrim’s Progress – John BunyanBeowulf – Steven MitchellThe English Patient – Michael OndaatjePBS Great American ReadMaud Martha – Gwendolyn BrooksRoof Beam Reader TBR ChallengeLibby AppHospital Sketches – Louisa May AlcottReconstucting Amelia – Kimberly McCreightMark Twain HouseLife is Beautiful movieConfederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War – Tony Horwitz

Episode Forty Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Our 4th Giveaway – The winner is Sally – entrant #42: Stay with Me – Ayobami Adebayo Sweetgirl – Travis Mulahauser Love and Other Consolation Prizes – Jamie Ford Saints for All Occasions – J. Courtney Sullivan Choicemagazinelistening.org – A free talking magazine service. Join our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page. – Currently Reading/Listening – The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas (EF) The Selected Letters of Willa Cather – Willa Cather, Andrew Jewell (CW) Chicago Poems – Carl Sandburg (CW) Tangerine – Christine Mangan (CW) – Just Read – Echo Killing (Harper McClain #1) – Christi Daugherty (CW) (release date March 13) White Houses – Amy Bloom (EF) Anatomy of a Miracle – Jonathan Miles (EF) – Biblio Adventures – Emily went to the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library to hear Amy Bloom speak about her new book – White Houses – sponsored by Breakwater Books. Chris attended the book club for the Witness Stones Project at the Guilford Library where they discussed Kindred by Octavia E. Butler. Chris and Laura watched the movie October Sky based on the book Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam. – Upcoming Jaunts – Chris is going to see the play Murder on the Orient Express March 12th – Nathaniel Philbrick presents his new book Second Wind: A Nantucket Sailor’s Odyssey in partnership with Bank Square Books at Mystic Congregational Church March 12th – Chloe Benjamin author of The Immortalists will be at RJ Julia’s in Madison with Jill Santopolo author of The Light We Lost. April 19th – Chris and Emily are planning a visit to Bank Square Books in Mystic, RI for Cozy Mystery Night featuring Liz Mugavero, Wendi Corsi Staub and Shari Randall hosted by Our Mystery Man – John Valeri! Look for his byline at Mystery Scene Magazine and Suspense Magazine. – Upcoming Reads – The Dog Healers: A Novel – Mark Winik (CW) Broken Girls – Simone St. James (CW) Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide Open Heart – Scott Stabile (EF) Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II – Liza Mundy (CW) – 4th Read Along – Maurice – E.M. Forster (CW) (EF) The Goodreads Discussion can be found here. – Also Mentioned – Thomas Otto – The Readers Podcast and Hogglestock Blog Joyce Carol Oates – Go Listen to Eric Karl Anderson at LonesomeReader.com (blog) for his A Beginner’s Guide to Reading (video) Chris has read three Joyce Carol Oates books: The Accursed Beasts Middle Age: A Romance Night School – C.J. Daugherty Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold and the Fate of the American Revolution – Nathaniel Philbrick Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeannette Winterson Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit – Jeannette Winterson The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature – Bill Goldstein

Episode Twenty Three Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Grapes of Wrath Read-Along – Chris and Emily will be doing a joint read of John Steinbeck’s the Grapes of Wrath. The discussion of the book will be live on August 22nd. If you have any questions or comments you would like us to address, please get in touch via email or social media by August 17th. – Just Read – A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Bachman (EF) The Going and Goodbye: A Memoir – Shuly Xóchitl Cawood (CW) The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty – Elizabeth L. Silver (EF) Mothers and Other Strangers – Gina Sorell (EF) – Currently Reading/Listening – Jack Be Quick – Benjamin Thomas (CW) Emma – Jane Austen (CW) The Talented Ribkins – Ladee Hubbard (CW) Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World – Sarah Praeger (CW) The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley – Hannah Tinti (EF) Leavings: Poems – Wendell Berry (EF) The Gift of Good Land – Wendell Berry (EF) Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure – edited by Wendy Maltz (EF) – Biblio Adventures – Chris and Emily had a joint jaunt to the Pequot Library book sale July 29 – Benjamin Thomas author of Jack Be Quick at Bookclub Bookstore August 3 – Chris attended New Haven Noir book launch at The Institute Library in New Haven, CT August 3 – Emily went to SpeakUp at Infinity Hall in Norfolk, CT She also visited the beautiful Norfolk Library Chris wrote a blog post about her visit to the Norfolk Library. Read it here. – Upcoming Jaunts – August 10 – Chris will be moderating Sarah Praeger as she discusses her book Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World at Bookclub Bookstore & More August 15 – Emily is hoping to visit Galaxy Bookshop in Hardwick, VT. August 19-20 – Chris will be heading to Cather Weekend on Governors Island August 22 – Emily will be heading to an event sponsored jointly with Bank Square Books and Mystic Museum of Art to hear Camille Aubrey discuss her book Cooking for Picasso. – Upcoming Reads – Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (EF) (CW) The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying – Nina Riggs (EF) The Arrangement – Sarah Dunn (EF) Glass Houses – Louise Penny (CW) – Also Mentioned – Links to where Laura's book Mastering the Art of Self Expression is available: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Art-Self-Expression-Laura-Thoma/dp/1365669653/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501642230&sr=8-1&keywords=mastering+the+art+of+self-expression BN: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mastering-the-art-of-self-expression-laura-thoma/1126807579?ean=9781365669651 Lulu: http://www.lulu.com/shop/laura-thoma/mastering-the-art-of-self-expression/paperback/product-23248182.html And at Breakwater Books and Book Club Bookstore & More Chris is now reviewing books for Criminal Element. Check out her first review of Stasi Child by David Young. The Execution of Noa P. Singleton – debut novel by Elizabeth Silver Empire State Center for the Book – events on Governor’s Island

Episode Sixteen Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Follow up: Kathleen Rooney’s Poems While You Wait – proceeds go to her imprint Rose Metal Press – Just Read – Schadenfreude, A Love Story: Me, the Germans, and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations, Unfortunate Miscommunications, and Humiliating Situations That Only They Have Words For – Rebecca Schuman (CW) Anything is Possible – Elizabeth Strout (EF) Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940’s & 50’s: A Library of America Boxed Set edited by Sarah Weinman. In A Lonely Place – Dorothy B. Hughes (CW) Saints for All Occasions – J. Courtney Sullivan (EF) Red Car – Marcy Dermansky (EF) books we Just Couldn’t Read (or DNF’d) Into the Water – Paula Hawkins (CW) One in a Million Boy – Monica Wood (EF) Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (CW) Blue Light Yokohama – Nicolás Obregón (EF) – Currently Reading/Listening – History of Wolves – Emily Fridlund (EF) Connecticut Valley Tobacco – Brianna Dunlap (CW) The Gypsy Moth Summer – Julia Fierro (CW) – Biblio Adventures – Chris, Emily and their friend Russell had a trifecta visiting Breakwater Books, RJ Julia Bookseller and the Book Barn all in one day! Chris, Emily and their friend Julia visited the Emily Dickinson Museum while Russell visited Amherst Books. Emily went to Powell’s Books in Portland, OR both the main store and the store on Hawthorne to see David Callahan author of The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. Emily saw the outside of the bookstore Another Read Through but didn’t get to visit so there is a reason to go back to Portland! Emily went to RJ Julia Booksellers to see Cathryn Jakobson Ramin discuss her book Crooked: Outwitting the Back Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery. Emily went to RJ Julia Booksellers to see the Connecticut Coalition of Poets Laureate. They performed readings from Laureates of Connecticut: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. – Upcoming Jaunts – Emily and Chris are planning a joint jaunt to Yale’s Beinecke Library to see an exhibit. May 24 – Chris is headed to Bookclub Bookstore & More to see Brianna Dunlap author of Connecticut Valley Tobacco. May 23 – Girls Write Now Awards May 31-June 2 – Book Expo America – Upcoming Reads – Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World – Sarah Prager (CW) The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Guilded Age – David Callahan (EF) It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too) – Nora McInerny (EF) – Also Mentioned – Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (CW) Maine – J. Courtney Sullivan (EF) Inside Philanthropy is an online resource to learn Who’s Funding What, and Why Terrible, Thanks for Asking podcast

Gail (Hussey) Weir is the author of The Miners of Wabana, published by Breakwater Books in 1989 and 2006. Her latest publication is a chapter on the history of Company Housing on Bell Island in the book Company Houses, Company Towns: Heritage and Conservation, published by Cape Breton University Press in 2016. A former archivist with Memorial University Library's Archives & Special Collections, she is spending her retirement years constructing a website on Bell Island's history and culture at www.historic-wabana.com. In this podcast, we talk about the history of mining on Bell Island, company housing and building styles, and Gail's memories of growing up on the island.

Nicholas Ruddock is a Guelph-based doctor and a critically acclaimed poet and author whose 2010 novel, The Parabolist, was short-listed for the Toronto Book Award. His latest work is the compelling, funny How Loveta Got Her Baby, a linked story collection that was published by Breakwater Books this past March. Ruddock will be reading at […]