#erinbow

[meganwhalenturner]

I've been organizing a writer's retreat since 2018 and this was our first year back since the pandemic. Here's a video of what a house full of writers (at work) looks like. 😁

[rj-anderson]

🇨🇦 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

[erinbowbooks]

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

[meganwhalenturner]

2023 booklist for Small Business Saturday

Middle Grade

Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow

I am going to pat myself on the back forever because I hosted the writing retreat where Erin started work on this book. Not many people say, "I'm going to write a middle grade novel that will shine the light of a white hot sun on gun violence and I'm going to make it funny." But Erin did. And it is amazing.

Teen

The Luminaries and The Hunting Moon by Susan Dennard

At the launch for The Hunting Moon at Schuler's Books in Grand Rapids, they asked me to describe The Hunting Moon in six words and I said, Magic, Monsters, Witches, Impossible Family Expectations.

This unabashedly teen book was a breath of fresh air for me. Return to a simpler time when teenagers just had to risk their lives killing monsters in enchanted forests while struggling to win approval from people they are beginning to think have really questionable values.

Summer in Orcus by T Kingfisher

Ursula Vernon writes books for younger readers under her own name and everything from YA up to adult under the name T Kingfisher. I could recommend any of her books, but Summer in Orcus has a special place in my heart. Summer's mother wants to keep her safe, so safe that when Baba Yaga offers Summer a portal to the magical realm of Orcus, Summer is through it like a shot.

Adult SF and Fantasy

The Adventures of Amina Al Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

A retired pirate! Who happens to be a mother! Who is torn between her desire to live a nice safe life with her daughter and, you know, piracy.

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

When the new Ambassador from tiny Lesl Station arrives at the capital of the far flung galactic empire, her first job is to figure out who murdered her predecessor. I loved the convolutions in Martine's world building and story telling.

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Lorena Garcia

It's the Jazz Age in Mexico. Someone's been keeping the Mayan God of Death trapped in a trunk at the foot of the bed. And that someone's granddaughter, who is utterly sick and tired of her horrible relatives, has just opened that trunk.

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm

This is an old one. This book was published in 1976 and has recently been republished. I read it thirty years or more ago and have never forgotten it. It's a thoughtful, brutal, beautiful book about the decay of civilization and the importance of individuals, individuality, and the preservation of diversity.

Warrior's Apprentice by Bujold

If you like Gen, I think you'll love Miles. 😁

[erinbowbooks]

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LOOK WHAT CAME! 📦 In today’s mail, the first ARCs for my new middle grade STAND ON THE SKY. 🦅 I am embarrassingly excited. Thank you @hmhkids!!!! @scholasticcda #unboxing #unboxingbooks #authorsofinstagram #middlegrade #middlegradebooks #middlegradefiction #middlegradereads #authorcopies #standonthesky #erinbow #mongolia #eaglehunter https://www.instagram.com/p/BoMr6gNnKsm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v945q8piosza

[erinbowbooks]

Shelf-portrait in progress. This is the nonfiction in our house that mostly interests me. Top to bottom: scripture and theology; mythology and folklore; memoir, essay, and books about writing; science and the history of science; feminist thought; the Aztecs. (The Aztecs were for a book.). Gardening and typography in there somewhere. Across the room there is history, gets geography, urbanism, architecture and SO MANY TRAINS on my hubby’s shelf. I had to cull four boxes to get this far! #shelfie #shelfportrait #erinbow

[erinbowbooks]

Writing stickers for February. Green stickers are chapters edited, pink are those same chapters read aloud to my kids/test audience and edited. Orangey yellow stickers are 500 new words in a new book. About 9000 of those. Also visible, weird vertigo fatigue period where nothing much got done. #amwriting #amediting #productivity #productivityhacks #writingstickers #stickers #erinbow

[erinbowbooks]

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I am a novelist dressed as the most horrible thing I could think of: my inner critic. #halloween #monster #costume #eyes #writersofinstagram #erinbow