Over the years, I have written a number of personal essays about my great friend and second mother, Thelma Tees who died of cancer 10 years ago. I am thrilled that my essay about her passing "Family Spilling Over" will be published in "A Cup of Comfort for the Grieving Heart" (Adams Media) in December, 2009.
To celebrate the publication I'd like to invite you to a reading of the essay at An Evening With Northern Authors to be put on by the NorthWords Writers Festival on October 29, 7 p.m. at the Explorer Hotel, Kat B, in Yellowknife.
"A Cup of Comfort for the Grieving Heart" will be available at the Yellowknife Book Cellar when it comes out in December and can also be ordered (and pre-ordered) through Chapters or Amazon.
I will be sharing the stage with Fort Smith Author Richard Van Camp who is launching is new collection of short stories "The Moon of Letting Go," Jamie Bastedo who will be reading from his new novel "Sila's Revenge" and Mindy Willett who will be celebrating the publication of "Come Learn with Me," the latest in the series "The Land is Our Storybook." (Mindy is co-author with Sheyenne Jumbo. Tessa Macintosh is the photographer for the book.)
It should be a great literary evening. Hope to see you there.
congrats on the 'cup of comfort' piece, those are hard to break into. nice to have a follower up north!
ReplyDeletecheers, jan
It was a great evening and I very much enjoyed hearing your stories. Truly wonderful.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm also so glad to have finally found your blog!