I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Build your #horror TBR with these #spookymonth new releases! @kelleyarmstrong.bsky.social @orringrey.com @jimchines.com @momoshaty.bsky.social @manylittlewords.bsky.social @annieneugebauer.bsky.social @rhirschgarcia.bsky.social @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social

I seem to be writing another sad, unsellable story.

will never understand how Canadians became known for saying “eh” when we should be known for our ability to make the phase “okay buddy” mean everything from “of course I will give my life for yours” to “I am the drunkest man alive and I am going to fight you in this parking lot”

Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social's schedule is officially out! Heartlines will be stationed in the vendor room for the weekend! Come say hi and talk about short fiction! www.can-con.org/events/live-...

small one about to begin this week’s ukulele lesson, so I’m going to dig into Ottawa writer Rebecca Hirsch Garcia’s The Girl Who Cried, / @ecwpress.bsky.social @rhirschgarcia.bsky.social

The secret is out! The vast majority of 2025 for me was reading for the 2025 City of Ottawa Book Awards where I was on the jury for English Fiction. Here is the shortlist! Congrats to the nominees! Full list here: ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...

Last chance to enter the goodreads giveaway for Other Evolutions: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

HMU if you need new bookmarks. Other Evolutions coming October 7th! Pre-order now: ecwpress.com/products/oth...

Goodreads giveaway for Other Evolutions! www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

New header. Other Evolutions. Coming October 7th.

In hour two of my trip to Ikea to pick up ONE THING I was collapsed on a couch saying "I'VE LOST THE WILL TO LIVE" while people just strolled past me. So you know, a normal trip.

Amazing times at the Ottawa Book sellers dinner where I got to meet the amazing person who makes sure my book ends up in stores and the Ottawa owners of those stores. Plus I got to hold my ARC for the first time!!!

But what if self-destructive? 🤔

American friends only: Kirkus is doing a bundle of SFF books which includes Other Evolutions. Ends on June 21st! www.kirkusreviews.com/contest/give...

So excited about this release! Rebecca’s writing is so unnerving and beautiful, it was an honour to illustrate for it 💛

Other Evolutions. Coming this fall from @ecwpress.bsky.social. Cover by the amazing @elizabethrangerart.bsky.social.

Tomorrow! Me, and the talented Lisa Alward and Paola Ferrante talk all things short stories. Hosted by Heather O'Neill. writersunion.ca/webinars/sha...

It gives me such joy to see this story continue to be read. I almost didn't write it. And then when it was written it was @jenralbert.bsky.social who pushed me to get it published. 📸: @rebecca-b.bsky.social at @banffcentre.bsky.social

Only 2 DAYS!!! left to get your nominations in for this year's Aurora Awards! Nominations will close at 11:59 EDT on Saturday, April 5, 2025. Please take a look through our awesome lists of eligible works and submit your nominations through our member portal at www.csffa.ca

Issue 7 is live for paid subscribers and available for purchase 🎉🎉🎉 Sign up for a free subscription and get 2 pieces to read right away! www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-7/

Assimilation! Acculturation! Authenticity! Being Jewish in America! For @bwdr.bsky.social's fashion issue, I wrote about Joan Micklin Silver's Hester Street. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/03/26/g...

We never consented to this.

Currently reading Sydney Hegele's trippy and heartfelt Bird Suit.

More stories of Canadians experiencing customs struggles and being threatened with detention now. This is Cree music composer Andrew Balfour's post from today on Facebook.

Canadian Sisyphus: shovelling your walkway in the middle of a snow storm only to find the top of the steps is as snowy as when you started by the time you finish the walkway. ❄️

The Canadian Tax exemption is ending on Feb 15. Go get the books friends!

Buy Canadian, read Canadian.

3 days left in our submission period! We'd especially love to see more: 🍁Canadian writers 🖤Gothic vibes (banging on your dead mother's grave/puffy black sleeves/yearning for the void) 🪆More weird -- like a nesting doll of weirdness, a multi-layered skin suit of weirdness heartlinesspec.moksha.io

As a small press author it always gives me such delight to read unsung gems from other small press authors. The response from presses has been so warm already. I am knee deep in ARCs!

A lot of these granting bodies also request that recipients post about them. Ontario Arts Council specifically requests that recipients use certain hashtags and social media to publicize the grants. It's how most of us learn about these grants in the first place!

Every year I swear I'll read all the unread books I own and every year I fail. Here are the luck ones that made if off my tbr this year.

It's Giving Tuesday so please consider donating to the Ottawa Fringe (or your local fringe if you have one). You will never meet more ridiculous, kind, supportive people who are willing to make theatre work on a dime and a prayer. The show must go on! But money helps: ottawafringe.com/support/

Thanks to Stephen Kotowych for mentioning my short story collection in the intro to Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two along with many other talented authors. The title story is also featured in the anthology: www.indigo.ca/en-ca/years-...

My husband is an artist who makes orreries (clockwork planetary models) out of metal and glass. When I was struggling to finish my novel, he made me a deal: if I finished the book, he'd make me an orrery based on the world of my novel. It's freaking BEAUTIFUL.

Over 400 people are registered to learn bystander intervention with me on Nov 26 @ 11am EST! It's only 1 hour and cameras/mics are muted, so you're never on the spot. You'll leave with 5 concrete tools to safely intervene! Register now :

"November always seemed to me the Norway of the year." -Emily Dickinson

Spending my staycation diving into books by #Ottawa authors, and mapping locations which feature in the stories. Read The Girl Who Cried Diamonds, and even bumped into @rhirschgarcia.bsky.social last weekend. I’ll share my finds; always curious for more fiction.poetry.music recommendations.

Thanks to Ottawa legend @robmclennan.bsky.social for featuring me on his blog and asking me to answer his famous 12 or 20 Questions questionnaire: robmclennan.blogspot.com/2024/11/12-o...

If you can, it's always a good idea to give: www.braintumour.ca

Many new followers in the last few days, welcome! We're the oldest sci-fi & fantasy bookstore. We kinda suck at being active on social media, but we always love chatting books recommendations! We ship worldwide, and regularly have in-store events, including a couple in the next few weeks.

New book announcement! I'm thrilled, thrilled, THRILLED to let you know Year's Best Canadian F&SF: Volume Two is available NOW in ebook from Kobo, B&N, and Amazon and that the trade paperback publishes this coming Tuesday, Nov 12th! Vol 2 is 25K+ longer than Vol 1...and it shows ;) #thicc

That's a wrap on @canconsffh.bsky.social! My mini-book haul: ❤️

At CBC talking about Ottawa and @canconsffh.bsky.social!

Very proud to be nominated for an Ottawa Book Award. I love my city.

So, fun fact, I found I was short listed for The Danuta Gleed Award by scrolling on Instagram. Thanks to the jury for nominating The Girl Who Cried Diamonds. I can't wait to read the other books! writersunion.ca/news/short-l...

Preorders - Countess is available everywhere. Here is ECW's site. A Canadian publisher who said YES to a queer Caribbean Space Opera novella. You can get it at all the indie stores. All the big retailers. You deserve queer, purple Trinidadian, style revenge. YOU DO. 💜💜 ecwpress.com/products/cou...

New from me: a love letter to the weird corners of Ottawa, published in Heartlines Spec. ♥️

The fruits of my season of grant writing. Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for Arts for supporting my novel, Other Evolutions.