I put a new post up on my substack. Check out what is happening for Big Pond Rumours Chapbook Press. sharonbergauthor.substack.com/p/organizing...

I have four interviews in The tEmz Review for issue 33. This is one of them. David Giuliano speaks about his approach to writing 'The Unending of Wendall Forbes'. www.facebook.com/share/p/1AjM...

I took my 6 month boy, Jasper, to the groomer for his 2nd clipping yesterday. Today she sent me this picture of him. It is that season! I'm sending out best wishes to all who celebrate at some point in the next several months, whatever you celebrate. Jasper sends his best wishes too!

This is my latest post in Substack. Home truly is where your story begins and I began as a Canadian author and now I am a Resident Interviewer for a Canadian periodical. open.substack.com/pub/sharonbe...

Hinging open.substack.com/pub/susanwad...

I invite you to check out my substack, which is free. sharonbergauthor.substack.com

Meet Jasper, my 18 week old, copper-coated, Cockapoo. When I lost my last dog, I thought I'd never take another, but I'd wake in tears I was that lonely. This boy is calm yet so comic, the perfect companion AND he gets me out walking to keep me healthy. (Photos by Erica Penney of his 1st grooming.)

Big Pond Rumours is back as a chapbook press for Canadians only www.facebook.com/share/p/1CfB...

Have to say I'm proud to share this poem at Suburban Witchcraft in Siberia! Check it out! www.facebook.com/share/p/1GaD...

Here's something to contemplate... www.facebook.com/share/p/15dx...

Here is a recording of 4 poems read aloud that I performed in the 1980s. This was at an Art Gallery in Ottawa. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ahb...

I've got lots of books for sale. $20 each includes postage. Message me. soundcloud.com/g101ottawa/t...

Reminicse... www.facebook.com/share/p/1HH7...

This... is about a book project and personal transformation that took up about 35 years of my 37 year friendship with Elder Pauline Shirt, who passed in 2024. www.facebook.com/share/p/15r8...

A link to my interview of a Canadian author as the Resident Interviewer for The tEmz Review. Enjoy! www.facebook.com/share/p/15gq...

For artists only: I serve a niche group of creatives. You might be a writer, a photographer, a painter or some other creative person with a project you need to complete with few distractions outside of the gorgeous landscape. All meals are included in the price. www.facebook.com/share/p/1AmS...

Here's a direct link to another of my latest interviews at the Resident Interviewer at The tEmz Review.

I am the Resident Interviewer at The tEmz Review. Here's one of my latest interviews. www.facebook.com/share/p/18zg...

And then there is this... Who ever thought their poetry, or even a children's book, would receive a reading at a Cat Festival? www.facebook.com/share/p/1Bt7...

This is short story month.

I want to offer thanks to Stevan V. Nikolic for publishing my rather strange story, 'The Shape Shifter', in "Adelaide Literary Magazine". adelaidemagazine.org/the-shape-sh...

I'm ever-so-touched that I was asked this question by Hollay Ghadery of River Street Writing. Ask a blunt question & you'll get a blunt answer from me. www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/3/...

When you're poor, old enough to think of your end, but still writing, with umpteen manuscripts finished but not getting published fast enough... you think 'how can I speed this up?' I'm hiring help despite being stubborn about doing things on my own for decades. Oh, how I miss my workshop days!

Tidbit is my greatest writing support. He really likes Naming the Shadows (short fiction, Porcupines Quill, 2019) and Stars in the Junkyard (poetry, Cyberwit, 2020). I've got copies of both so you don't have to buy them from Amazon!

Are you up for the challenge? Read my interview with Dr. Blair Stonechild about his latest book in the latest tEmz Review. www.thetemzreview.com/berg-stonech...

I never saw myself doing this... before Trump dismantled all that's humane & decent below the border. So many people are blind to the damage done when you don't 'hear' another person, burying them under your personal bias. We all need to stand up for what's good & right in every corner of our lives!

Check out my interview with Hollay Ghadrey here: www.thetemzreview.com/berg-ghadery...

Please check out the 30th issue of The tEmz Review. I have four interviews in it this time, but there is also a lot of other good reading in it. Look out for individual highlights from the interviews in this issue in the days to come. www.thetemzreview.com/issue-thirty...

I'm resident Interviewer for The tEmz Review (London, ON, Canada). It's getting close to release date for the next issue. I interview Dr. Blair Stonechild, Carolyn Parsons, Hollay Ghadrey, and Marlis Wesseler about their books in the next issue. Watch here for an update after March 10, 2025.

This is a painting that demonstrates the flexibility and nuance of colour when using egg tempera... something that I deal with in my debut novel ms. Beautiful work, it's a self portrait done in 1940 by Andrew Wyeth.

I'm sharing my poem GENESIS from my book STARS IN THE JUNKYARD (Cyberwit 2020). It feels appropriate today. open.substack.com/pub/sharonbe...

Outside of several one-off, handmade books and perhaps an anthology, this is my publication covers. (BPR Press is Big Pond Rumours Press). It looks something like a quilt, which feels right.

Mom passed last night at 100 1/2. Married to Al Purdy in 1946 and had one son, Brian, with him before they split. She remained married to Al until he died in 2000. Bare facts are cruel & ridiculous. She departed to 'join Raymond', my Dad, who she was with for 48 years before he died 21 years ago.

I finished my quasi-memoir (age 4-22). I've been told it has too many awful events to believe 1 girl experienced them. I sent it to 2 beta readers & will be on tenter hooks until I hear back. This is the book I envisioned myself writing as a prepubescent girl. I hope I've done my story justice.

Find this interview in The /temz/ Review Issue 29 www.thetemzreview.com/berg-peacock...

Find this interview in The /temz/ Review Issue 29 www.thetemzreview.com/berg-fahner....

Find this interview in The /temz/ Review Issue 29 www.thetemzreview.com/berg-zorn.html

Here is my interview with Kim Fahner about her debut novel, The Donoghue Girl, set in northern Ontario. www.thetemzreview.com/berg-fahner....

Here is my interview with Alice Zorn about her latest novel, Colours in Her Hands. www.thetemzreview.com/berg-zorn.html

Here is my interview with Molly Peacock about her insightful look at grieving through poetry in her book The Widow's Crayon Box. www.thetemzreview.com/berg-peacock...

One of the major issues I see with Bluesky, going forward, is the severe limit on text characters. One can hardly say a thing before you're running over... It will likely impact the staying power of subscribers. It has likely impacted mine.

Why can I not see my own last post?

In 1975 I was a drug addict & alcoholic. Boyfriend had a contact. Then I was pregnant a 3rd time & quit cold turkey. I had to save my child. Boyfriend deserted as I 'forced fatherhood' on him. My 1st was adopted. My 2nd was a miscarriage. All by age 20. I couldn't give up my 3rd. She saved my life.

I'm working on my draft novel, editing, and because it touches on several incidents that happened to me as a young child it recalls feeling the world was a scary place for females... making it especially difficult to look at the situation of the world today without feeling deja vu, not much changed.

I've starting blocking accounts complaining of utter poverty and requesting donations. Know this will happen to similar posts. There are so many other, more appropriate, resources for assistance. I'm not heartless. But I do suspect they're bots or scammers. Be gone or request assistance elsewhere!

All of a sudden, Bluesky looks like a charity organization? Everyone seems to be posting with a sob story, wanting donations. There are other places that seem more likely resources than this.

I've updated my Poets list and there are lots of new names there. These lists are not categorized by country, just interest. In todays's post I offer a link to my NonfictionJournalism list. I update all of my lists by adding the names of each person who follow me daily. bsky.app/profile/shar...

I'm editing my novel "Tell That to Picasso" once again. I must've gone over the manuscript at least 25-30 times, start to finish, adding & subtracting words. This time, I put it in a strictly chronological order. Maybe fussing with the timeline doesn't make something more sophisticated.