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It's Gift Guide Week at All Lit Up and Taslim Burkowicz (author of Ruby Red Skies ) offers her stellar Gift Guide for 2022 and I am thrilled that she includes Filthy Sugar on her list!

"The protagonist, Wanda Wiggles, is as sultry as she is out of control, and her refusal to follow all laws makes this novel a page turner."

New video!

Reading a short passage from my novel Filthy Sugar now available from Inanna Publications. Thank you to my dear Neil for filming.

  TOpoet.ca

Read the full review here and check out the wonderful and insightful blog TOpoet.ca for books & music reviews, poetry, photography and the serialization of TOpoet’s novel Picture Perfect:

Filthy Sugar News!

Filthy Sugar has been nominated for a Goldie in the Historical Fiction category! (Golden Crown Literary Society Literary Award) I am super excited!

Listen up, ya mugs! Filthy Sugar is now an audiobook! Narrated by accomplished voice actor Jacqueline Pillon, the audiobook will be available for purchase on all digital platforms on November 15th, 2020. 

Filthy Sugar received a great review from the Historical Novel Society. Read it here.

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Thank you Neil Traynor, for filming this new video of me reading a short excerpt from my debut novel Filthy Sugar.

My Debut Novel Filthy Sugar is Available Now!

Set in the mid-1930s, Filthy Sugar tells the story of Wanda Whittle, a nineteen year old dreamer who models fur coats in an uptown department store but who lives in a crowded rooming house with her family in the “slums” behind the city’s marketplace. Bored with the daily grind, Wanda finds inspiration in the celluloid fantasies of the Busby Berkeley musicals, Greta Garbo dramas and Jean Harlow comedies. After a chance encounter with the mysterious Mr. Manchester, proprietor of the Apple Bottom burlesque theatre, Wanda is thrust into a world of glitter and grit, where the guys talk tough and the dames are tough. On her journey from rags to riches and back again, Wanda experiences a sexual awakening and achieves personal independence as she discovers that a girl doesn’t need a lot of sugar to be sensational!

 Advance Praise for Filthy Sugar:

 “Erotic, compelling and full of richly textured characters, Heather Babcock’s storytelling is equal parts moxie and poetry—tinted with the heartbroken nostalgia of memory and lost dreams; and sparkling with striking, evocative imagery”. 

– Cate McKim, Life with More Cowbell (lifewithmorecowbell.com)

  “I truly hope this exquisitely written debut novel will enjoy the love and attention it deserves. Superb, poetic and cinematic, Filthy Sugar will transport you into another world and you won’t want to leave!”

—Lisa de Nikolits, author of No Fury Like That and Rotten Peaches

 “Heather Babcock’s novel, Filthy Sugar, artfully takes the reader into the Jazz Age of flirty flappers and boozy philosophers.”

– Pat Connors, Toronto Poet

 “Heather Babcock’s Filthy Sugar is both a sweet and saucy journey behind the curtain. A time traveled, tantalizing, and tumultuous tale, to be sure.”

—Valentino Assenza, Co-Host/Co-Producer HOWL, CIUT 89.5FM

 “Heather Babcock has captured the pure essence of the 1930s with eloquent, colourful words that flourish across the pages. You literally feel as if you are part of the audience in the burlesque house, hooting and hollering as Wanda wiggles across the stage”.

—Lizzie Violet, writer, poet & spoken word artist.

 “Filthy Sugar is a real time-travelling excursion. Heather Babcock brings alive the era of Trilbys, hoofers and two-bit scriveners with vividness, imagination and striking description. A good read – and how!”

—Jeff Cottrill, writer, actor, journalist and spoken-word artist

 “Underneath this camp and well-researched historical novel is a strong feminist story of the multiplicities of female sexuality, of an unstripped agency and, in the final scene, an empowerment that will leave you clapping and laughing. Masterfully written with the sensibility of a poet, Heather Babcock is a writer to watch.”

—Brenda Clews, author of Tidal Fury and Fugue in Green

Order your copy of Filthy Sugar today from Inanna Publications:

 https://www.inanna.ca/product/filthy-sugar/