Halifax Events

I spent the first eighteen years of my life in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, venturing out as far as Boston and a trip to Toronto, but otherwise sticking pretty close to the lake I grew up next to. Dartmouth is known as The City of Lakes and there's a song I love by local band Matt Mayes by the same name.

I moved away for university, then meandered further for work, and then for more university. Somehow, by fate or accident, I found myself on the west coast... and made it my home. And yet, when I go to Halifax, I always say I'm going home. It's a curious, ephemeral thing, this idea of home.

Which is a long way to say: I'll be in Halifax/Dartmouth in October for the first time since Adrift came out and have a few events set up for fun. Please come say hi or tell your friends to come out! I half worry that I'll be sitting alone in an empty room for each of these - an author rite of passage I'd really really like to skip.

Oct 6, 6:30 pm - Cole Harbour Library book club (anyone can come)

Oct 9, 6pm - Halifax Gals & Pals Book Club Meetup - this is a fun organization that organizes all kinds of meetups to help people make friends (hello crafting nights). This is open to "girlies, gays, theys", just send them a message to register in advance as spots are limited.

Oct 11 - Indigo Dartmouth book signing 1-3pm

I've teamed up with Rose Sutherland to do a two-author book signing at Indigo Dartmouth. This event is special for me as I worked at Coles in Dartmouth while in high school. That store is closed (and the mall bulldozed), so this Indigo is as close as I can get!

What’s the common thread between A Sweet Sting Of Salt and Adrift? On the surface they’re very different types of speculative fiction, one set in the past and one in the future, on the two opposite coasts of Canada—but both are deeply connected to the sea, the weather, and its rhythms and caprices. In both, the main character is a brilliant woman trying to unravel a net of secrets before she’s trapped in it…and both authors are originally from Nova Scotia! Rose and I attended the same high school, even taking creative writing class with the exact same teacher.