What a dream this past week has been! Aether and Ego came out on Tuesday. Tuesday night we had a release day cocktail party at Trident Booksellers & Cafe in downtown Halifax, where one of my writing groups meets and where a significant portion of the book was written. It was a good time! Trident even had a bespoke cocktail for the occasion based on Regent’s Punch.
On Wednesday, John Scalzi’s blog Whatever featured the novel in their The Big Idea series! And then on Thursday, From Pemberley to Milton posted an excerpt and giveaway (open until the 25th of September)!
Yesterday was my official book launch at the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia event space. I worked at WFNS from 1996-2001, and so it was a deeply meaningful full-circle moment for me.
I started the day by messing up completely: I didn’t absorb that I was supposed to have picked up a key earlier in the week, but Ori rushed down to open the place up for me and everybody rallied around and helped me lay out the food and chairs, and otherwise things went off without a hitch. It was a joy to share Elizabeth Bennet’s first experience of weightlessness with this group!
I gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts through The Writers’ Union of Canada / Je remercie le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien!
I’m excited to be heading to Toronto next weekend for Word on the Street, and then to Yarmouth the following Friday for a conversation with Julian Mortimer Smith, author of The World of Dew and Other Stories (IUP, 2021). And then Booktoberfest that Saturday! All of my upcoming events are here.
