I needed a new carry-on & how perfect to find one with a maple leaf! 😍 🍁 If your Book Club is interested in featuring my book @latitude46pub.bsky.social in 2026, please message me. To order: www.latitude46publishing.com. I am very happy to attend a book club meeting in person or online. 😍 🇮🇹 🇨🇦

"I read your new book in one sitting & was captured by your vulnerability, candor, humour, cooking acumen & the tender & grace-full ways you conveyed each story.Yes, your book is a love letter & touches the reader!" -Paulette Dahl 😍@latitude46pub.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social

"Our Italian-Canadian heritage is replete with both martyrs and saints 😇who made the trans-Atlantic journey 🛳️with our immigrant parents, tucked away within the folds of their baggage...(and) within the folds of our parents’ conscience..." @latitude46pub.bsky.social www.latitude46publishing.com

Next stop: #TorontoPublicLibrary on Nov. 29th with Maria Coletta McLean to read and chat about our books! 😍 📚📚#fiction #nonfiction #creativenonfiction @canadianauthors.bsky.social #jane/sheppardbranch Product of Italy, Made in Canada... @latitude46pub.bsky.social

I'm a bit behind, but have to say I had a splendid time at the Soo Public Library #SaultSteMarie, ON last Saturday, reading from my new #creativenonfiction collection Product of Italy, Made in Canada... @latitude46pub.bsky.social #italian-canadian 🇮🇹 🇨🇦

Heading to #SaultSteMarie, Ontario on Nov. 8th! Looking forward to returning to the SSM Public Library to do a reading from my new book @latitude46pub.bsky.social. 😍 I lived in the Soo from Dec. '85 to summer '88. I enjoyed my years there and I always look forward to returning for a visit! 🇮🇹 🇨🇦

At Chartwell Meadowbrook Retirement Community on Oct. 29th, reading from Product of Italy 🇮🇹, Made in Canada 🇨🇦: An Immigrant's Love Letter to Food, Family, and Resilience. @latitude46pub.bsky.social Thanks #thewritersunionofcanada & #canadacouncilforthearts for supporting this public reading 🇨🇦

Product of Italy 🇮🇹, Made in Canada 🇨🇦... An Immigrant's Love Letter to Food, Family, and Resilience. ❤️@latitude46pub.bsky.social Celebrating my #Italian-Canadian heritage. #creativenonfiction #immigrant @randallperry.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social @canadianauthors.bsky.social

A fashion parade during my launch of Product of Italy, Made in Canada... 🇮🇹🇨🇦 I read from "You Are What You... Wear." Available at www.latitude46publishing.com or favourite [email protected] Celebrating with @randallperry.bsky.social, Darlene Madott, Rosina Fazzolari.

Fabulous #launch at the Caruso Club on Oct. 23rd for my #creativenonfiction collection: Product of Italy, Made in Canada: An Immigrant's Love Letter to Food, Family, and Resilience @latitude46pub.bsky.social @canadianauthors.bsky.social #italiancanadian

My books arrived yesterday! 🎉🎁 Happy birthday, Product of Italy, Made in Canada: An Immigrant's Love Letter to Food, Family, & Resilience @latitude46pub.bsky.social @canadianauthors.bsky.social @wordstocksudbury.bsky.social @cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social #italian-canadian #creativenonfiction 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 📗📕

Thanks, @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social for this interview On Creative Writing! ✍️ 😍 www.oncreativewriting.com/post/on-writ...

My upcoming release of Product of Italy, Made in Canada... @latitude46pub.bsky.social is featured in the Italian-Canadian Narratives Showcase 🇮🇹🇨🇦 @uofguelph.bsky.social Thanks Sandra Parmegiani and Sharon Findlay! #creativenonfiction #italiancanadian www.italianheritage.ca/2025/09/15/c...

Great to hear that my book @latitude46pub.bsky.social is featured in the Italian-Canadian Narratives Showcase 🇮🇹🇨🇦 @uofguelph.bsky.social Thanks Sandra Parmegiani and Sharon Findlay! #creativenonfiction #italiancanadian www.italianheritage.ca/2025/09/15/c...

Great to hear that my book @latitude46pub.bsky.social is featured in the Italian-Canadian Narratives Showcase 🇮🇹🇨🇦 @uofguelph.bsky.social Thanks Sandra Parmegiani and Sharon Findlay! #creativenonfiction #italiancanadian www.italianheritage.ca/2025/09/15/c...

Awesome to get my copies of my 6th romance @millsandboon.bsky.social in the "Two in one" format! 😍

A lovely time in North Bay today. Found some treasures at @allisonthebookman.bsky.social: Kamouraska by Anne Hébert, All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg, The Stormy Petrel by Mary Stewart, and two books for my granddaughter. 📚❤️ Then we enjoyed the waterfront on Lake Nipissing. Perfect day! ☀️

In The Sudbury Star! @sudburystar.bsky.social thank you 😍 to interviewer Laura Stradiotto!

Thank you very much, @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social! 😍

Celebrating the book birthday of my 6th Harlequin #Romance! 😍 @trw-writes.bsky.social @canadianauthors.bsky.social ♥️ Available as e-book or paperback at Indigo and Amazon. 💋

Releasing this month by Harlequin❤️& Mills & Boon!💜 "Angel may live in Toronto, but her heart has always been in #CapeBreton. The brooding Scot has her heart racing with just a single look. Gabe’s past is just as painful as hers. Dare she dream that this could be the start of their second chance?😍

Huge thanks to @elioiannacci.bsky.social for this awesome endorsement for my upcoming #creativenonfiction release Product of Italy, Made in Canada:An Immigrant’s Love Letter to Food, Family, and Resilience ❤️🇮🇹🇨🇦@latitude46pub.bsky.social

Congrats to my fellow @trw-writes.bsky.social for their August releases! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

One of my bookshelves showcasing my books in various genres (historical fiction, short fiction, romance and children's fiction) and 20 anthologies accumulated over almost 30 years while teaching, my other passion. Persistence, patience, and belief in yourself are essential traits as a #writer! 😍 ✍️

My daughter designed this book bag using the title of my upcoming October release @latitude46pub.bsky.social! 😍🇮🇹🇨🇦📚📚 #cnf

Coming up, the August release of my Harlequin #romance set on #CapeBretonIsland .The hero is a Michelin-starred chef 🧑‍🍳😍 If you love the idea of a romance with a chef on an iconic island😄, you can pre-order at Indigo or Amazon. 😍 @trw-writes.bsky.social @canadianauthors.bsky.social

Proud of my Italian heritage🇮🇹and proud of my adoptive country Canada! 🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day! 🎉🇨🇦🎉 As the title of my upcoming book indicates, I see myself as a Product of Italy and Made in Canada! 😍

Thrilled to announce the upcoming Oct. 18 publication of my #CNF collection Product of Italy 🇮🇹, Made in Canada 🇨🇦: An Immigrant's Love Letter to Food, Family, & Resilience! @latitude46pub.bsky.social! #creativenonfiction #canadian @canadianauthors.bsky.social

Many thanks to Westmount Photography of #Sudbury, Ontario for taking this professional #author photo! 😍

A wonderful time at Writers & Editors Network breakfast meeting today at the Canadiana Restaurant in Etobicoke! Thanks so much for this opportunity to read from my work and to chat with members about writing, Maria Pia Marchelletta and Maurus Cappa! 😍 #writers #editors @canadianauthors.bsky.social

Please let me know when you decide to come out this way, Gail! @anderson-dargatz.bsky.social 😍

I have wonderful memories of a week-long Writers’ Camp with multi-talented & 2-time Giller nominee @anderson-dargatz.bsky.social in July 2015 in Providence Bay on Manitoulin Island! I can’t believe 10 years have passed, Gail! ❤️😍✍️

June is Italian Heritage Month! 🇮🇹 Proud of my Italian-Canadian identity! 🇮🇹🇨🇦

Su Chang's THE IMMORTAL WOMEN spotted on this @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social list! 👀 www.cbc.ca/radio/thenex...

😍Thanks to @elioiannacci.bsky.social! : "In Pigeon Soup & Other Stories, Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli proves herself a virtuosa of the written word. Battigelli invites readers into a world where the everyday shimmers with meaning." Elio Iannacci, Globe and Mail, Vogue Italia

SPLASH INTO WRITING! Please join us at our ONLINE WRITING RETREAT Summer Edition Saturday, June 14, 2025 PT 8:00am–6:00pm | MT 9:00am–7:00pm CT 10:00am–8:00 pm | ET 11:00am–9:00pm AT 12:00pm–10:00pm | NT 12:30pm–10:30pm REGISTER: www.canscaip.org/Sys/Login?Re... #CanKidLit #CANSCAIP

Here’s a public service announcement from me about ‘Birch and Jay’ and why you (and your teens) should read it. #booksky #postapocalyptic #youngadult #climatechange

McHappy Day today! A very worthy cause! 😊❤️

Flew to Montreal to be at the launch of A Lterary Harvest:Canadian Writing About Wine & Other Libations, pub. by Longbridge Books. I read my story “Deception & Damnation” along with other authors. Great event at Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore. 😍📚📚

Happy to see the cover of my 6th Harlequin Romance novel, to be released in August 2025. ❤️😍Set on iconic Cape Breton Island.🇨🇦 ❤️

Want to get (and keep) kids interested in gardening? Here are thirty ideas free for the taking. youtu.be/5TR-uMwqZro?... #gardensky #gardening #garden #outdooreducation #outdoored #outdoorkids

Looking forward to reading at the Montreal launch of A Literary Harvest: Canadian Writing About Wine And Other Libations! 😍 🍷🥂

Pajama Press is excited to announce that we are opening our submissions for middle-grade and YA fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction. Please visit the Pajama Press submission page on our website for more details. #opensubmission #YAbooks #middlegrade #fantasy #scifi #historicalfiction

Happy to share the cover of my upcoming 6th Harlequin Romance, August 2025 ❤️#fiction #romance inspired by a trip with some friends on #CapeBretonIsland #NovaScotia in 2023. 😍

Proud of my Italian-Canadian Heritage 😍 🇮🇹🇨🇦 Will have some good news to share with you soon... 📚

This is a lovely lunch read and I think someone should be setting these parties up across Canada: www.instyle.com/singles-dati...

Exploring my #Calabria heritage, I was inspired to write a historical novel based on the turbulent events in post-unification southern #Italy. La Brigantessa= The Female Brigand (or #Outlaw).

Ready for #Easter! 🐰💐@PajamaPress 😍

Stay positive! 🦋

Good things take time! Reach for the stars! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟