#plainkate

🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 . To celebrate, I’m featuring the beautiful, lyrical yet often-overlooked debut novel of one of my favorite Canadian (though American-born) authors, @erinbowbooks. PLAIN KATE is a beautiful, haunting story with the resonance of a classic Eastern European fairy tale and also hands-down the most authentically catlike talking cat I’ve read in children’s literature (Taggle! Trust me, you’ll love him). It has a strong girl friendship, a creepy yet magnetic villain, and a twist of wry and welcome humour to leaven the book’s serious explorations of cruelty, loss and grief. It’s not a light fluffy read, but neither is it a hopeless one, and Erin’s poetic prose carves the lights and darks of Kate’s story into luminous relief. . Good for readers 12 and up, and slightly younger readers will enjoy Erin’s most recent, Governor General’s Award-winning contemporary novel STAND ON THE SKY as well. 🇨🇦 . . #bookstagram #bookish #amreading #IReadYA #BookRecommendations #books #reading #readingisfundamental #erinbow #plainkate #canadianauthor #canadianauthors #fairytales #mgreads https://www.instagram.com/p/CCGxHrSAb2U/?igshid=1gmeo8n3bpgzw

My gray tomcat here is excited to announce that @scholasticcda is reprinting PLAIN KATE. This new edition has hits of red on the cover and of course that seal! Out in the new year. By excited I mean indifferent. But I am excited. #erinbow #middlegrade #mgbooks #plainkate #scholastic #scholasticcanada. Word is it will be in the #scholasticbookfair https://www.instagram.com/p/BrY6RZGn9EH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wvxf8zxpjyun

"Be brave. Things will find their shape. Lift your knife."

#authorlifemonth today is about #inspiration. “Where do you get your ideas” is the most common question I am asked. One answer: I get my ideas by slamming different ideas together at high speed. This hodgepodge of pictures represents some of the ideas behind my cli-fi political thriller #TheScorpionRules. I grew up in Nebraska (the road) near The Strategic Air Command, watching the plane called the Looking Glass circling overhead, ready to launch the nukes if the ground posts were wiped out. I have some thoughts about peace through terror, and emotional connections to that prairie sight line. I also once tried to write an Time travel book about the legend of Gil Pérez (wiki article). It necessarily contained Aztecs, and I became fascinated by the flower wars and the role of the divine child sacrifice. I ditched the book but kept the kids. And the eerie shock cavalry with wings — the Husars — we’re excised from #plainkate but found a home in a post warming, transhuman future. Right now I am writing something inspired by radio telescopes, small town funeral homes, and a Mad Magazine cartoon. It’s a comedy.