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#BOOKISHGIVEAWAY 🍂 To celebrate the beginning of Fall as well as receiving our newest release, LIGHT IN THE FOREST, this week we are doing a GIVEAWAY! Three lucky people will win a copy of LIGHT IN THE FOREST by Holly Carr. The idea for LIGHT IN THE FOREST grew from Holly’s wish to ease her then 5-year-old son’s anxieties. Her striking silk paintings of forest animals, accompanied by the mantra “Do not be afraid ... there is light in the forest,” will help ease children’s many anxieties in these strange times. . To enter: 🍂Like this photo. 🍂Follow @plumleafpress @plumleafbooks and @rubiconpublishing . 🍂In one comment tell us one of your childhood or current fears and tag 2 friends. 🍂Tag all your bookish friends and parents! One tag per comment. Each comment will count as an extra entry. 🍂 Share this photo in your stories for extra entries (please only tag @plumleafbooks so that we can keep track). . Open internationally. Closes October 1, 2020 at 12:00pm EST. Winner will be chosen at random, contacted via DM and announced on the post and in our stories. The winner must be willing to share their mailing address with us in order to receive their prize. This giveaway is not sponsored by or affiliated with Instagram.

Congratulations to poet Diana Hayes on the release of her CD, “Deeper into the Forest.” Diana collaborated with musician Andy Meyers and vocalist Susheela Dawne, and reads from her poems in LABYRINTH OF GREEN (swipe). 🌳🌲🌳 “Light fades imperceptibly through the forest dome. In time we are wordless the glimmer of chorus is all to be heard. ...” - Diana Hayes, “All That Quiet, He Says” in LABYRINTH OF GREEN . 💽📚CD and book available at @saltspringbooks, @dianaeileenhayes 📚 LABYRINTH OF GREEN available at @munrobooks, @indigo @amazon.ca and plumleafpress.com

Swipe to check out some beautiful still images from the LIGHT IN THE FOREST film, which is currently being edited. The film showcases Canadian artist Holly Carr’s beautiful silk paintings as well as music, dance, mental health messages, and more. It will be available to view online for a limited time. More details coming soon! 🍁 Holly will be on CHCH Morning Live tomorrow, September 23, at 8:20 a.m. (EDT). 📚 You can pre-order the LIGHT IN THE FOREST book using the link in our bio. Use the promo code LITF123 for free shipping until the end of September.

We need more women in government — and author Betsy McGregor wrote this book to help make it happen. “The best guides for women on their journey in politics are the women who have already gone ahead.” In this book, more than 90 women politicians of all ethnicities at all levels of government across Canada share their insights and advice on how to make it on the ballot ... and win! Swipe to see Table of Contents. “This book should be in every library and school. We need more women in government.” 📚 QOTD: What changes would you try to make if you were in government? 🇨🇦 WOMEN ON THE BALLOT is available online at most indie bookstores, Amazon.ca, Indigo, or you can purchase directly through the link in our bio.

Selected and introduced by poet Georgia Heard, the poems in THE WOMAN IN THIS POEM were written by renowned women poets and are centred on the multifaceted lives of women — Love, Motherhood, Work, Family and Friends, and Balance. THE WOMAN IN THIS POEM is available online through most Canadian indie bookstores, as well as Indigo, Amazon and plumleafpress.com

Thank you to all who took part in guessing what our upcoming non-fiction book is about. Lots of interesting guesses! The book is called THE FOOD DOULA COOKBOOK: A GUIDE TO A HEALTHY PREGNANCY & A NOURISHED NEW MOM by Lindsay Taylor, and it will be available next spring. We are excited to share more about this book in future posts, but for now, please help us choose a cover! 📚 Which one is your favourite?

Here is the final clue to our upcoming non-fiction book available Spring 2021. Swipe to see the first three. We are not expecting a baby, although we did welcome 4 — soon to be 5 — babies into our Plumleaf/Rubicon family in 2020. We are expecting a very exciting new book next year. Some might say we are in the "third trimester" of the book process. 📚 Any guesses? Stay tuned for the answer and our design poll, where YOU help us decide on the cover!

Here is the third clue to our upcoming non-fiction book available Spring 2021. Swipe to see the first two. We have had some very close guesses. Now we are getting more obvious with our images, so the only clue we're going to put here is that it is not related to flying bears. 📚 Any guesses? Stay tuned for more clues!

Today is #readabookday, but honestly, isn’t every day? We love books. We love the publishing process. We love reading new ideas and submissions from authors. From the initial concept to the first draft to the final edited and designed version, we are passionate about the entire process. Our desire is to continue to publish books to linger over for many years to come. We hope you enjoy them as much as we love creating them. 📚 What are you currently reading?

The inspiration behind artist and author Holly Carr’s paintings and this book was her wish to help ease her then 5-year-old son’s fears at bedtime. Using the forest animals that he loved, she showed him the way to release his anxieties by looking for the light. Holly’s huge silk paintings were transformed into an exhibition, then this book, and now a stage production — all with the intention of helping children let go of their anxieties. With stage shows shut down due to COVID-19, Holly is in the process of filming the play to — together with the book — reach out to many more children. The Canadian Mental Health Association of Nova Scotia has endorsed the LIGHT IN THE FOREST WELLBEING INITIATIVE. See @hollylcarr for details. 📚 This book is now available for pre-order online through most indie bookstores in Canada and at plumleafpress.com

Here is the second clue for our upcoming non-fiction book available Spring 2021. Swipe to see the first one. We had lots of guesses that the book was something pear-related, but it is not. It is also not pickle-related, although while you are reading it you might be craving them;). 📚 Any guesses? Stay tuned for more clues! 🔍

This image is from WILLA'S HOUSE, a heartwarming chronicle of a teacher's life in a small Canadian town — and the events that made up her well-lived life. Looking at this illustration, it's hard not to wonder how different school will look this year. 📚 How are you feeling about the return to school in Ontario? If you have already returned to school, how is it going so far?

The art in our upcoming children’s picture book LIGHT IN THE FOREST is stunning. So much interesting detail in the paintings of different North American forest animals, all created by Canadian artist, Holly Carr. We are offering outlines of the images from the book as free colouring sheets on our website (link in bio). We would love to see your child’s art — or your own! Please feel free to share it with us or tag us in your posts. Happy colouring!

Guess what? We are accepting submissions! We will consider all manuscripts, but we particularly welcome books geared to women and children. We are interested in all genres, including poetry, literary fiction and non‐fiction, children's picture and chapter books, YA novels, and cookbooks. 📚 For more information on our submission guidelines, visit our website plumleafpress.com

I started the imprint Plumleaf Press with the dream of publishing beautiful and memorable “books to linger over.” So far we have kept to this mission. Diana Hayes’ poetry and photographs in LABYRINTH OF GREEN is a lovely companion I love lingering over with a steaming cup of sencha ginger tea. . “In the house of the grandmother blue light softens, then settles the corners Of a child’s fitful sleep. . Ivy climbs two stories, merging with turn-of-the century red brick. . In her garden fields beyond window’s view she speaks to every seed unhurried bringing more than food to the table. . In the child’s eye there is no hourglass or globe to drop beyond this horizon. Blue light persists in the house of the grandmother. ...” . - “In the House of the Grandmother” by Diana Hayes LABYRINTH OF GREEN is available at select indie bookstores, @munrobooks, @saltspringbooks, @indigo @amazoncan and plumleafpress.com . #poetry#poetrylover#dianahayes#labyrinthofgreen#bookstolingerover#bibliophile#bookstagram#hydrangea#tea#teacup#bonechina (at Oakville, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEEzqGSAc9t/?igshid=d0xshzs97m2k

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WEEK 23 of WFH!! Never thought it would have lasted this long! Grateful everything’s been running smoothly remotely — a terrific team at @rubiconpublishing! — and WFH life is sweet, but do miss office life. “The human touch” might be a cliche, but it’s vital — exchanging news by the coffee pot, mulling over and reaching decisions instantly at editors’ and designers’ computers, sharing good news, chatting around the lunch table, and just the hum of activity ... as opposed to the silence of WFH, and the endless lengthy conference/Skype/zoom discussions to make decisions. Plus the books left behind! I’m not whining ... things change all the time, most beyond our control — and nothing is ever perfectly right or wrong — so I learn and adjust and remain grateful for my blessings. EXPERIENCE BY Emily Dickinson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet at sea. . I knew not but the next Would be my final inch, — This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience. . . . #wfh#wfhlife#office#officedecor#officedesign#officespace#flowers#books#bookshelves#bookshelfdecor#bibliophile#bookstagram#shelfie#officevibes#experience#change#changeisconstant#workfromhome#emilydickinson#poem#poetry#lifeisgood#myhappyplace#poetrylover#igpic#oakvillebusiness#oakvilleontario (at Oakville, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD_bgAsgfCQ/?igshid=s340hligch3m

Wrapping up Week 22 of WFH with yet another shot of this very photogenic book. Children will love artist Holly Carr’s stunning silk paintings (swipe to see the actual size of one of these paintings — photographed while it was still a work-in-progress) of forest animals in the dark and in light, and it is Holly’s hope that they will, like her then 5-year-old son who first inspired this project, learn to let go of their fears and anxieties. 🌳🌲🌳 The Way Through The Woods By Rudyard Kipling 🍃 THEY shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees. It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones. Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove broods, And the badgers roll at ease, There was once a road through the woods. . Yet, if you enter the woods Of a summer evening late, When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools Where the otter whistles his mate, (They fear not men in the woods, Because they see so few.) You will hear the beat of a horse's feet, And the swish of a skirt in the dew, Steadily cantering through The misty solitudes, As though they perfectly knew The old lost road through the woods. But there is no road through the woods. ~~~~~ 🔺LIGHT IN THE FOREST by Holly Carr is available for preorder through our link above. Use code LITF123 for free shipping (North America only) until September 30 2020. . . . #newbook#newbookalert#lightintheforest#hollycarr#art#paintings#silkpaintings#artist#silkartist#childrensbooks#picturebook#kidlit#kidlitartist#author#authorsofinstagram#fears#anxieties#wellbeing#mentalwellbeing#poetry#poem#rudyardkipling#librarybook#bookcover#bookcoverart#bookcoverdesign#bookstagram#bookworm#bibliophile (at Oakville, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD3lJefgYti/?igshid=1c3ou96ayt06f

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