Signature Editions

Congratulations to Genni Gunn on being shortlisted for the 2024 SCWES Book Award for Poetry! You can read the full list of finalists here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10G-3jK0j1j2_QRS_TKeiOCr_5MJakQI6/view?pli=1

In honour of , we've rounded up 12 new and notable reads from disabled writers. Learn about these (and more!) books right here: https://alllitup.ca/book-list/reads-for-disability-pride-month/

Join Raymond Beauchemin next Tuesday (May 7) at 6 pm EDT for the Holyoke launch of The Emptiest Quarter at the Holyoke Public Library (250 Chestnut Street).

Congratulations to Genni Gunn on being shortlisted for the 2024 Di Cicco Poetry Prize! You can read the full list of finalists here: https://www.librissimi.ca/di-cicco-poetry-prize/

The World Is But a Broken Heart by Michael Maitland received a starred review from The Miramichi Reader! Read Laura Patterson’s full review at: https://miramichireader.ca/2024/01/the-world-is-but-a-broken-heart-by-michael-maitland/

Nick Martin refers to Raye Anderson’s Sing a Song of Summer as “darned good” in his review for the Winnipeg Free Press. Read the full review at: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/2023/11/10/interlake-haunted-by-cottage-country-killer

Read Managing Editor Ethan Vilu’s thoughtful Filling Station review of The Cat Looked Back by Louise Carson.

"In ACCIDENTS, my aim was to explore accidental events (both past and present) that cause upheavals in our lives and change our perception in some way."

Poet Genni Gunn discusses the approach to her book ACCIDENTS (Signature Editions) and shares the poem "Puck" from her collection for .

Read the poem and our interview with Genni at the link: alllitup.ca/theres-a-poem-for-that-genni-gunn-accidents/

Larry Swartz called Dan Yashinsky’s I Am Full the best book he read in 2023! Read the full review at: https://larryswartz.ca/end-of-the-year-grown-up-reads-december-2023/

Pearl Pirie investigates the sixth book in the Maples Mystery series in her The Miaramichi Reader review. Read the full review at: https://miramichireader.ca/2023/12/the-cat-looked-back-by-louise-carson/

Marion Agnew discusses her memoir Reverberations with Jennifer Palma on Global News Morning BC as part of National Brain Awareness Month in March. Watch the full interview here: https://globalnews-ca.translate.goog/video/10394043/palmas-picks-holding-on-to-memories-with-alzheimers-disease/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Marion Agnew discusses her memoir Reverberations with Jennifer Palma on Global News Morning BC as part of National Brain Awareness Month in March. Watch the full interview here: https://globalnews.ca/video/10394043/palmas-picks-holding-on-to-memories-with-alzheimers-disease/

Have you read Brett Josef Grubisic’s Vancouver Sun review of Michael Maitland’s The World Is But a Broken Heart? Read the full review at: https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/book-review-victoria-author-deftly-captures-lost-souls-in-unforgiving-family-terrain

Read Heidi Greco’s thoughtful Miramichi Reader review of Shop Class Hall Pass: Facing the Buried Trauma of Sexual Assault by Karin Martel. Full review at: https://miramichireader.ca/2023/11/shop-class-hall-pass-by-karin-martel/

Between the longer days, little green shoots poking out of the earth, and today's ; you best bet we're ready for spring. Here are 10 garden-forward books to help you get ready, too:

https://alllitup.ca/top-10-books-in-bloom/

Another exciting review for Louise Carson's The Cat Among Us. Read the full review at: https://socratesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2024/03/review-cat-among-us-by-louise-carson.html

Join Raymond Beauchemin next Sunday (March 24) at 5 pm for the Hamilton launch of The Emptiest Quarter at The Staircase. Food and drink will be available for purchase at the bar.

Lucy E.M. Black, author of The Marzipan Fruit Basket, Eleanor Courtown, Stella’s Carpet and The Brickworks highly recommended Daryl Sneath’s In the Country in the Dark on her Instagram. Read the full review at: https://www.instagram.com/p/CyvdrxjLUUL/

Heidi Greco refers to Michael Maitland’s The World Is But a Broken Heart as “passages of such beauty” in her review for The British Columbia Review. Read the full review at: https://thebcreview.ca/2023/10/06/1952-greco-maitland/

Join Raymond Beauchemin with in-conversation host Deborah Dundas next Friday (March 15) at 6 pm for the Toronto launch of The Emptiest Quarter at Queen Books

We were thrilled to see Mary Hays's delightful review of Dan Yashinsky's powerful book I Am Full in the Spring 2024 edition of The Storyteller newsletter.

Sarah.DeeReads recently reviewed Louise Carson's The Cat Among Us. We love that people are still discovering this cozy series. Read the full review at https://www.instagram.com/p/C30AXoXr1S7/

Congratulations to Karin Martel on being shortlisted for the 2024 Saskatchewan Book Awards for Non-Fiction!

Join us for our Mar 13 Book Chat with Raye Anderson - https://mailchi.mp/0016e1aa56af/book-chat-mar-13-raye-anderson

Email [email protected] for the Zoom instructions.

Join Raymond Beauchemin this Sunday at 2 pm for the Montreal launch of The Emptiest Quarter at Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore

TMR contributor Laura Patterson reviews a NEW short story collection THE WORLD IS BUT A BROKEN HEART by MICHAEL MAITLAND. Published by Signature Editions

⭐️ THE WORLD IS BUT A BROKEN HEART is awarded the TMR STAR

📚”It is a grey morning with the slightest hint of peach dancing on the edges of the passing clouds, the dry leaves of the oak tree whip in the wind. A morning for reflection. Dale, Kenny, Patrick – three names that sit with me as my heart bleeds. The unfairness of life baffles me. Success and grandeur for some, broken backs, and worn-out boots for others. How can there be such a divide? A divide that has children growing up in run-down homes with run-down parents just trying to scrape by when every day is as dull and pointless as the last while others have success handed to them. I have seen the pain life’s unjust hand can cause. What Michael Maitland has given us in his collection of short stories, The World is But a Broken Heart is real, and it is raw. It will make you think of that family you went to school with, the ones that always had trouble following them, the ones with holes in their shoes, the ones with no food to eat at lunch.”

Laura’s article continues HERE ⬇️
https://miramichireader.ca/2024/01/the-world-is-but-a-broken-heart-by-michael-maitland/

Raymond Beauchemin, author of The Emptiest Quarter, and his wife Denise Roig, author of Brilliant, have the beautiful morning ritual where they read aloud to each other.

My wife and I have a morning ritual where magic happens: We read aloud to each other We found that the physical act of sitting down in the same place around the same time daily to do the same thing — i.e., establishing a routine — is, like the act of love, a mode of communication.

Raymond Beachemin's collection of novellas, The Emptiest Quarter, is now available.

Living at both the centre and the fringes of the conflict between preservation and progress, the characters in The Emptiest Quarter are all striving to find balance, love, and themselves, in ever-shifting sands.

The Emptiest Quarter Book Trailer The Emptiest Quarter by Raymond BeaucheminPublished by Signature Editionshttp://www.signature-editions.com/index.php/books/single_title/the_emptiest_quarterT...