This smart natural blonde lays out being blonde no dummy her! ://open.substack.com/pub/thecassandracomplex/p/on-blondes?r=33gce

The US government has turned into a dictatorship. Canadians like me are watching in disbelief and horror. Can this be the America we knew and loved?

Thank you, Brian!

@b-hmn.bsky.social September 18 my husband Patrick Crean & I received Orders of Canada, his for editing, and me for my contribution to Canadian writing and cofounding the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Its motto says: they desire a better country @beaconpress.bsky.social @gayleking.bsky.social

Celebrated screen writer Susan Coyne is shopping around her TV pilot of my memoir Big Girls Don’t Cry @beaconpress.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @authorsguild.org

Reviews are getting harder & harder to get but here’s a link with no pay wall to a good one for Big Girls Don’t Cry reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202... @beaconpress.bsky.social

Reviews are harder & harder for authors to get especially in Canada but here’s a good one for Big Girls Don’t Cry from Toronto:https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/20 @beaconpress.bsky.social

Are they scared of Trump? Why don’t they do their job?

Pritzker is a hero. Hats off to his courage! From the true north strong and free! @jbpritzker.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Honouring The Brave American Feminists today who fought for women over 100 years ago. White women got the vote in 1919. Black women had to wait 45 more years. 🙁 @beaconpress.bsky.social @msnbc.com @msmagazine.com

People are reading my memoir as far away as Kazakhstan. Here’s Joseph Hafner, York U’s Dean of libraries reading it out loud as part of a flash mob during an international conference. What crazy fun!

Thanks for the plug. I’m with Dutch critic Conny Steenman Marcusse (the one in the hat)who gave it a thumbs up. NB. We’re staying out of the sun!

It’s all healed. That was in January!

Americans love a conman? Look at P.T. Barnum. Everybody knew his exhibits like the Fiji Mermaid were a hoax, but the American public wanted to see if he could get away with it.

Before Trump, America’s great gift to the world was appreciating what made an individual unique no matter where they came from.

If a girl grows over 6’2 even today she will have a hard time. When I was Olivia McGahern’s age, growing taller than six feet was the red line for our gender scripts. See Olivia’s piece on being 6’4 www.cbc.ca/news/Canada/...

Short men have similar problems. Some opt for leg lengthening surgeries b/c they’re gaslit with names like “garden gnomes.” @harpercollinsca.bsky.social

Novelist Jane Smiley & I compare growing pains in her Lit Hub Q&A June 20 about my memoir Big Girls Don’t Cry @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @beaconpress.bsky.social share.google/KvrGe4qwLFXx...

Author Shelley Saywell interviewed me about my new memoir Big Girls Don’t Cry in historical Queenston where artists @sharonokun.bsky.social and Adam Markovic have transformed an old school into a cultural hub

Jane Smiley and @susan-swan.bsky.social‬ discuss the importance of women who take up space: “Being unusually tall makes you feel set apart because mostly everybody else sees someone with the same weight, height and coloring every day.”

Jane was six foot two at 14. I hit six foot two earlier, at 12.

The worst is happening!

What on earth? This isn’t how America works.

On the verge of losing your temper

Yes it can—if you don’t get mad. But I like your positive approach

Thank you, @beaconpress.bsky.social

What you desire always awaits you if you are brave enough to recognize it

Lots more on my website about women taking & ceding space www.susanswanonline.com

My biggest beef with myself? I told CBC’s Next Chapter that I need to stop going down every rabbit hole on social media to argue with everyone I disagree with. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #biggestmodernwriter #canadianwriter #harpercollinscanada #beaconpress #author #biggirlsdontcry

“I think people want to be seen more… having a voice and being heard.” I wrote this memoir to understand how size had shaped my life.

Yipee! My memoir Big Girls Don’t Cry made the indie bestseller list. @beacon-press.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/books/what-c...

A TV pilot is currently underway based on the part of my memoir about a 70s feminist iniative where 2 other women & myself carried out assignments to punish sexual predators. More soon!

There’s something right with North American literature when so many women writers are writing at the top of their game and being celebrated for it ❤️

Thank you for your passion and for reposting @robinedgar59.bsky.social

To be big is a no-no for women… but we’re taking up space regardless. Get my new memoir Big Girl Don’t Cry anywhere you get books to learn how I overcame that shame and to take up my space. @oprah-winfrey.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social @beaconpress.bsky.social

Being big is a no no for women of all sizes @michelleobama7.bsky.social @pivotalventures.bsky.social @margaretatwood.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca

For more information, visit www.susanswanonline.com

One of the best q and A’s about being big just went live on @beaconpress.bsky.social

Thank you, Beacon Press! This is what I discovered writing my memoir-To be tall is to be big and to be big is a no no for women of all sizes.

Swan’s excerpt from new memoir: Big Girls Don’t Cry—To be tall is to be big-a cultural no no for women of all sizes https:/www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-to-be-tall-is-to-be-big-and-to-be-big-is-a-no-no-for-women-of-all/?

Best analysis so far of why Harris lost: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Big Girls Don’t Cry, A Memoir about Taking Up Space, will be in the stores May 27 in both Canada and the US. Join us May 27 at the Tranzac Club at 6:30pm to celebrate the release party with an exclusive Q&A about the memoir hosted by author Sheila Heiti.

Most people see others every day with the same coloring, height and weight, but if you’re a six foot two girl at twelve you don’t see yourself reflected in other people so you don’t have a clue how you look to the rest of the world.

Don’t miss the next Avie Bennett Lecture on April 25 at the Isabel Bader Theatre. Get a ticket at www.eventbrite.ca/e/literature...

Don’t forget to join us on Zoom tonight at 7 pm when I interview Claire Messud about her latest novel The Strange Eventful History. Her epic about three generations of a globalist family with a shameful secret offers some answers. Register at gillerprize.ca/giller-book-...

Waiting for reviews of a new book gives authors the willies. Do they really like it, you wonder. (Writers are notorious for remembering only the bad reviews & not the good.) Here’s the first review and it’s positive. Hooray! Read more at  everythingzoomer.com/zed-book-club/2025/04/08/spring-quartet/

I’m excited to share the short list of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction today. Only in its third year and it’s already become a major international literary award! Read more exclusively with People Magazine: tinyurl.com/4fukycvm Prize co-founded by Susan Swan, Don Oravec, and Janice Zawerbny.

@davidfrum.bsky.social is a sane savvy voice on Trump & Canada youtube.com/watch?v=GXzQ... @potus

In Trump’s world, black is white and white is black and up is down

America, with far too many gullible voters, has elected a mentally unfit con man as president. Can they impeach someone with mental challenges? @meidastouch.com @davidpakman.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...