The US edition of Shelter hits bookstores today. Here are a couple of links, one a guest blog on Mira Bartok, author of the Memory Palace's, website http://www.miraslist.com/2012/05/guest-blogger-frances-greenslade-author.html and another by a book blogger who likes Cinnamon, the cat in Shelter.  I like this, because her cat looks uncannily similar to how I imagined Cinnamon. http://jaffareadstoo.blogspot.ca/2012/05/review-shelter-by-frances-greenslade.html

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Shelter is an Indie Next pick for May. http://www.indiebound.org/indie-next-list

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I'm on the road again next week, heading to Toronto and New York to meet my US publisher. The US paperback of Shelter is out with Free Press in less than two weeks. I love the cover. The two girls walking into the lake remind me of the line in Shelter when Maggie says that she feels like her mother is a lake, with her daughters just bobbing around on the surface, unaware of the depths below.

I arrive back in Vancouver on May 12th, just in time for the BC Book Awards gala. Tickets are available here: http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/events/archive/lieutenant-governors-bc-book-prizes-gala-2012/

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Here's a link to an article about a very neat project being undertaken by the Kingston Frontenac Public Library, where four poets are writing poems inspired by Shelter. Poet Eric Folsom mentions hearing the song Motherless Child going around and around his mind. Strange, because I had the same experience while writing the novel, and even performed the song at a fund-raising concert. (in my creaky alto)http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx

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I just returned from the Peace River leg of the BC Book Prizes tour. I travelled with children's illustrator Rae Mate and Book Prize director Bryan Pike. It was amazing. Follow the blog and see photos (of us and the other nominees) here: http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/tour/archive

On Tuesday, April 24 6-8 p.m., I'll be in Vancouver for the soiree with the other nominees. It's open to the public. (see below) Hope you can come.

BC Book Prizes Soirée 2012

Event Date

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Location

World Art Studio, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
SFU Woodwards
149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
6:00 - 8:00 pm | Admission: by donation

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