I spent this past weekend with two very inspirational and busy women - Amanda Lindhout and Erin Davis.
I was the bookseller at the 2019 District 7070 Conference - Rotary Muskoka Style. What a great organization and wonderful people - I was pleased to be part of this event.
I would like everyone to be aware that if you are planning a conference with authors as speakers I would be happy to come as the bookseller for the event. We have remote access to debit and credit card processing - and 31 + years of experience !
The Parry Sound Festival of Authors brings the world to the Stockey Centre stage this fall with books set in Italy in the 19th century, in Europe before, during, and after, the Second World War, and in Canadian cities in the present time.
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli will read from her novel La Brigantessa, recently awarded Gold for Historical Fiction in the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards, and shortlisted for the Northern Lit Awards. La Brigantessa is set in the aftermath of Italy’s 1861 Unification. Gabriella Falcone is a peasant from Calabria who is forced to flee her hamlet after stabbing a wealthy landowner in self-defence. Her parish priest leads her through the harsh Aspromonte mountain range to seek refuge in an isolated monastery, but they fall into the hands of brigands. In the company of the brigand chief, Gabriella discovers that the convictions she once held dear no longer have a place in this wild, unlawful territory.
Craig Davidson will read from his novel The Saturday Night Ghost Club, a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, telling the story of Jake Baker growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls, a.k.a. Cataract City, a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place, over the course of a life-altering summer. The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a note-perfect novel that poignantly examines the fragility of mind and body, the resilience of the human spirit and the haunting mutability of memory. Craig Davidson is the author of Rust and Bone, Cataract City, and Precious Cargo, and has also had significant success with books written under the pseudonym Nick Cutter, The Troop, The Deep, and Little Heaven.
Shandi Mitchell will read from her novel The Waiting Hours. In an Eastern Canadian city tragedy erupts on a stifling summer night, where three ordinary people, with the extraordinary jobs of rescuing strangers, are connected to one another in ways both explicit and invisible. Each is deeply devoted to what they do, but they are all beginning to crack under the immense pressures of their work. With a city prickling under a heat wave and a hurricane threatening to make landfall, these first responders will be forced to make fateful choices that will alter lives. A storm is coming and nobody is prepared. Shandi Mitchell is an author and filmmaker. Her debut novel, Under This Unbroken Sky, won many literary awards.
Lilian Nattel will read from her novel Girl At The Edge Of Sky, a unique, thrilling, sometimes terrifying novel based on the life and death of Lily Litvyak, a female Soviet flying ace and fighter pilot shot down behind German lines in the Second World War, brilliantly blending fact with fiction. Lily Litvyak becomes a flying ace, glorified at home and around the world as the White Lily of Stalingrad. The real Lily disappeared in combat in August 1943, and the facts of her life are slim, but they have inspired Lilian Nattel's indelible portrait of a courageous young woman driven by family secrets to become an unlikely war hero. Lilian Nattel is the award-winning author of The River Midnight, The Singing Fire and Web of Angels.
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli, Craig Davidson, Shandi Mitchell, Lilian Nattel will be appearing together at the Charles W. Stockey Centre in Parry Sound, on Tuesday 29 October 2019 at 7:30 pm.
