Book Launch

I love Winnipeg!
Not only does it have history, art, culture and great restaurants, it has the most wonderful independent bookstore that celebrates words and writers from across Canada!

I was invited to the historic Frances Morrison Central Library for a reading and book signing on a lovely June evening. I spent the afternoon in their Local History Room digging up details for my new writing adventure.

Reader’s Digest was our family magazine. While there were other magazines in the house, Reader’s Digest was the one magazine we could share: that magical sampler of the best bits of grown-up books and periodicals.

Reader’s Digest excerpt from Separation Anxiety entitled: Here I Go Again on My Own, published March 2016. Full article inside.

Featured article published in the Red Deer Advocate on Nov 30 2015.

On Saturday, November 14th, friends & family got together with Separation Anxiety at Mahony & Sons Public House, Stamps Landing, Vancouver.

On Friday November 13 at 7pm I was reading at Mulberry Bush Books.

It was a cold and rainy night, but there was a warm welcome from friends old and new at the Courtenay Library.

You can read the review of Separation Anxiety, and countless others, on the “So Misguided” blog.

Listen to the complete Separation Anxiety Book Review; CBC Radio One, “The Homestretch,” air date August 31, 2015.

An Ordinary Life, in Focus – Vancouver Sun Interview Q & A, published August 1, 2015

I enjoyed meeting friends old and new at my book signing at McNally Robinson Books in Saskatoon.

It’s inspiring — and calming — to read at events with other authors. Reading at Shelf Life Books with Trisha Cull and her memoir Death of Small Creatures was so fun that we decided to share a book event in her hometown of  Victoria!

This has been my go-to bookstore in Kelowna for over 20 years. It seemed only fitting that I bring my book by for a visit!

Listen to my interview with hosts Kate Wheeler and Christine Bentley about how I veered off the teaching path to become a writer – and many other things in the book!

Landed on Story Planet to share their “universe of story making” with students. Out of this world!

Went to Toronto in June to celebrate with friends and supporters on this writing journey, along with the Dream Team who helped create the book and the buzz.

Happy to visit Café Books where I was all set up for sidewalk sales. The best bookstore in the Bow Valley. So supportive of local artists!

Separation Anxiety Book Review; CBC Radio One, “The Homestretch.”

No book launch is complete without a stop at Audrey’s Books in Edmonton. Caught up with my past there, too!

Separation Anxiety Interview with Claire Hanna on “Dinner Television,” air date May 20, 2015.

Owl’s Nest Books was the perfect place for my Calgary book launch, practically in the neighbourhood where I grew up.

It was fitting that my first book launch event was at Sunworks in Red Deer. I began writing Separation Anxiety in a little writing studio above the store in 2004. This evening felt like a homecoming!

I am proud to announce that Separation Anxiety: A Coming of Middle Age Story has been officially released in bookstores, online and in e-book formats!

I took part in the Sunday Market in Old Town La Quinta to spread the word about my soon-to-be-released book. Met several avid readers from Alberta on this beautiful morning.

The woman in this book is not famous. The events of her life are not tragic. The setting is not exotic. This is an ordinary story. Which makes it an extraordinary memoir.

It was a sunny day in November when I first held the book in my shaking hands. A congenial delivery truck driver wheeled boxes into the garage as my husband recorded the moment.