January 2009: A new feature begins on January 29th on Kathy-Diane’s blog: http://lettheshadowsfallbehindyou.com
Shadows Fall N Friends is a weekly interview with authors Kathy-Diane has met on the road to publication: Erica Spindler, Gregg Olsen, Louise Penny, Joy Fielding, Donna Morrissey and more. They’ll talk about their writing journeys and offer tips. To keep up-to-date on the schedule, subscribe to Kathy-Diane’s E-muse monthly newsletter at: shadowsfall@kathy-dianeleveille.com
April 2009: Let the Shadows Fall Behind You goes on sale on-line at Amazon. Everyone who ordered advance copies will find them in the mail box.
May 2009: Let the Shadows Fall Behind You hits Indigo, Coles, Borders and independent book stores like Westminster and Benjamin Books.
May 2009: Kathy-Diane invites all her friends to join her on May 10, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. to celebrate the offical launch of Let the Shadows Fall Behind You at the Saint John Arts Center. Drop by for a reading and signing, refreshments and the chance to win a gift certificate from Ambience Day Spa.
May 2009: Interviews and reviews for Let the Shadows Fall Behind You at all your favorite on-line spots like Readers Respite, The Novel Journey, Book Nook, Bloggin About Books, LibraryThing. Updates will be posted daily on this blog with links to each.
May 2009: Kathy-Diane and Let the Shadows Fall Behind You is featured in the May issue of The Big Thrill published by the International Thrill Writers. Details and link will be posted on this blog.
May 2009: Books signings at Coles, Indigo, Westminster Books. Dates and times to come.
June 2009: Canadian Crimewriters Bloody Words Conference in Ottawa, Ontario from June 5-7th. Let the Shadows Fall Behind You hits the readers’ Book Room and goody bags while Kathy-Diane schmoozes with her friends and fellow mystery/suspense authors.
June 2009: Book signings at Coles, Indigo, University Book Store. Dates and times to come.
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Here is the oil painting Evening Tide that my husband and I purchased at a charity fundraiser last week. It’s painted by artist Helga Lobb who moved to Canada from Germany in 1967. She took several photographs of the coast and then collaged her impressions. My husband and I have often traveled along the Atlantic on the motorcycle at dusk. I’ve seen the light assume this ghostly ethereal appearance. Whether I like it or not, it’s the setting that enters all of my fiction: the river I live beside and the ocean it runs into. The fundy coast is the back drop in Let The Shadows Fall Behind You.
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I have never met Newfoundland writer, Donna Morrissey, in person. (I’ve never been in town when she’s been here to read.) But we have exchanged e-mails and, besides being one of my favourite authors, she is plain old nice and possesses an enormous funny bone. (I vote she should perform at open mike night at Second City). When she told me she was over the moon from the Globe and Mail’s review of her new novel, I read it right away. Given it’s unequivocal recognition for her talent she must be all the way to Saturn or that blob, formerly called a planet, Pluto by now. Check it out:
Donna Morrissey writes with her heart on her sleeve. Her people are passionate, troubled, sensitive, emotionally exposed, quick to be moved to anger or pain, and just as quick to laughter and affection. As one of the characters in What They Wanted says, “you thinks with your heart.”
This is a novel of emotions, and the first vivid image of a family watching the father literally sawing their house in half before floating it out to sea gives us an inkling of the divided hearts and wounded souls we will meet…..
What They Wanted is not a plot-driven novel. The story is fairly straightforward: A father has a heart attack; a brother and sister leave Newfoundland and go to Alberta to work; they meet two young men from their childhood there and all find jobs on an oil rig; a tragedy brings reconciliation, but also terrible loss. As a tale, it sounds fairly uncomplicated. What is complex here, what is intricate and convoluted and often tortuous, are the emotions that attract, repel and ultimately bind the characters to each other.
The novel is narrated by Sylvie Now, university student of philosophy, barmaid, cook, dutiful daughter and caring sister. Her voice is compelling, revealing and utterly captivating. At the heart of Sylvie’s story is the wound she carries in her heart – of feeling herself unloved by her mother. A mother, by the way, who buried three infants before Sylvie came along, and then during an extended postpartum depression sent the small girl to live with her grandmother. It is to the next child, the boy, Chris, that the mother seems to devote all her affections. Sylvie’s antagonism toward her mother and her conflicted relationship with her brother form the emotional core of the novel…..
To read the rest of this article see:….
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080927.BKDONN27/TPStory/Entertainment/Books
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