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[theartisanalwriter]

My Road From Damascus

Kingston, Ontario based writer and activist Jamal Saeed, talks to AW’s Lucy Black about his new memoir LB: Thank you for sharing your journey from Damascus to Dubai to your current home in Canada.  Writing your memoir must have necessitated revisiting memories of great pain. Could you share with us how and why you selected some of the scenes that you document so graphically? JS: My pleasure. In…

[flaviathebibliophile]

Thank you for this complimentary copy of Cracked Pots by Heather Tucker @ecwpress! I absolutely ✨loved✨ The Clay Girl 😍 [Image Description: A photograph of a hand holding up a paperback copy of Cracked Pots by Heather Tucker in a living room setting. Description end.] #CrackedPots #TheClayGirl #HeatherTucker #ECWpress #CanLit #CanadianLiterature #CanadianPublishing #Historical #HistoricalFiction (at Waterloo, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/flaviathebibliophile/p/CYNM6J9AKyr/?utm_medium=tumblr

[bookmama]

A book has to be pretty amazing for me to need to buy a final copy after I read the ARC. It has to be a book that I want to reread, recommend to everyone who asks me for a good book recommendation, one that I want to pull quotes from in the future. All of this sums up my feelings for The Light Streamed Beneath It: A Memoir of Grief and Celebration by @shawnhitchins . This book comes out in October this year and which means you can join me in preordering it now, so you have a finished copy in your hands as soon as possible. Thank you fo much to @ecwpress for the gifted ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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Synopsis from the publisher: A lifetime of finding punchlines in his heartache comes to a shuddering stop when comedian and writer Shawn Hitchins loses two great loves, five months apart, to sudden death. In this deeply poignant memoir that combines sober self-portrait with tender elegy, Hitchins explores the messiness of being alive: the longing and desire, scorching-earth anger, raw grief ― and the pathway of healing he discovers when he lets his heart remain open. Never without an edge of self-awareness, The Light Streamed Beneath It invites the reader into Hitchins’s world as he reckons with his past and stays painfully in the present. As he builds an embodied future, he confronts the stories that have shaped him, sets aside his ambition, and seeks connection in what he used to deflect with laughter ― therapy, community and chosen family, movement, spirituality, and an awareness of death’s ever-presence. A heartrending and hope-filled story of resilience in the wake of death, The Light Streamed Beneath It joyfully affirms that life is essentially good, as Hitchins weaves his tale full of tenacious spirit, humor, kindness, and grit through life’s most unforgiving challenges.

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For anyone that has loved and lost, and made it through to the other side to find joy again. Shawn teaches us to live a life of abbondanza, believe in asparagus, let it be messy, and to always leave a seat at our tables for those who are no longer with us. See comments for TW/CW.

[missdarcy87]

“The throb of sunlight, / the air, tannic and vaporous. / Love has a shelf life of seven years. / Reveries over-ripened, / I swill this waking / malted and matinal, / cur another slice / from the loaf.” – Gillian Sze, “Dawning” 🍃

[parrisblood]

Reading about #dustyrhodes while preparing to dig into my #pwmeal #postworkoutmeal #basicswithspinach from @eatcleanbro #eatcleanbro 😋👍🏿💪🏿 #fitnessmotivation #fitness #fitfam #wrestling #nxt #currentlyreading #ecwpress #ilovewrestling #womenwholift #womenswrestling

[readingwithrendz]

The Brilliant Dark | Blog Tour // Review

The Brilliant Dark | Blog Tour // Review @ecwpress

Greetings readers!

Today I’m very grateful to bring to you my review for the final book in a Canadian YA Fantasy series! The Realms of Ancient series by S.M. Beiko has been a whirlwind of fun to read since book 1! This is one of the few urban fantasies that I’ve read that are set in Canada and well you know how Patriotic Rendz gets!

If you want to know more about my thoughts on book one and two,…

[iamjemeni]

#SwipeLeftForAnExcerpt Soooo..just a few months back I posted about looking for a voice agent, no agent later... STILL BLESSED 😉because since then I have recorded 2 audiobooks👊🏾💥💥 There were other things that needed a platform more urgently so I didn’t post but Our Voices Matter and I’m ready to share🙏🏾 The first book I was blessed to record was #LadiesOfTheNight by the incomparable Althea Prince! 👑 🖤 And Chile look at this BEAUTIFUL review we got! 💕💕 To be clear while the book is mostly but not fully based in Antigua, Althea said these are Caribbean characters so she just wanted authentic caribbean accents and voices but they didn’t have to be specifically Antiguan.. also God bless the 🍷 I’m assuming the reviewer sipped on before writing that I had a “Gorgeous singing voice” 🤔🤷🏾‍♀️ but I’ll take it!!! 🤪😂👌🏾 Thank you to @audiophile_magazine and especially to Althea and @ecwpress for trusting me to voice this gorgeous collection of caribbean stories.❤️ I hope you guys enjoy hearing it as much as I enjoyed voicing it.🙏🏾 Available on all audiobook platforms. @emti5 for your sister girl support in this and all things writing 💕📢📢 #VoiceWork #LadiesOfTheNight #Audiobook #VoiceActor #CaribbeanLiterature #BlackVoices #PerfectForLongWeekendListening 👌🏾 https://www.instagram.com/p/CGILUaBl51Y/?igshid=uldsjrzoqj2x

[karimkanji]

#NowPlaying "Listen Up! Recording Music with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, U2, REM, The Tragically Hip, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Waits…” is an album-by-album account of my next guest’s work with these iconic artists and others. 🎙️🎧 #LinkInBio 🎙️🎧 He has spent more than two decades recording, mixing, engineering and producing some of my favourite albums and concerts. 🎙️🎧 It is both an honour and a pleasure to welcome to the show Grammy award-winning producer, Mark Howard. 🎙️🎧 This is Episode #182 of the Welcome! podcast. 🎙️🎧 #podcast #Toronto #talk #interview #podcasting #canada #music #rock #rockandroll #livemusic #book #reading #ecw #ecwpress #booktour #producer via Instagram https://ift.tt/2XMhC8r

[gaeleatiamindeed]

Mad Richard by Lesley Krueger

Mad Richard by Lesley Krueger #NewRelease #Historic @ECWPress @LesleyKrueger #Victorian

In keeping with my Victoriana obsession, when I saw this historical fiction title from Lesley Krueger, I couldn’t wait to dive in. Based on the life of Richard Dadd, a Victorian artist and celebrity as his life and influences juxtapose against those of Charlotte Brontë, herself in the midst of her own questions and tumult. Please read on for my review of (more…)

[flaviathebibliophile]

Do you read nonfiction books?📖 I picked up some interesting business tips from Billion Dollar Start-Up! I was also pleasantly surprised that this book also focuses on the people who built the business on a personal level, rather thank just focusing on the company’s growth only. Full review coming soon to the blog! I tend to go for nonfiction books that I can pick up tips and trick from. But this year I’m going to try to pick up some biographies and autobiographies as well because I know that there are different kind of lessons to learn from those. Do you have any recommendations? Thank you @ecwpress for sending me a complimentary copy of Billion Dollar Start-Up to read and review! 💚 [Image Description: A photograph of a copy of Billion Dollar Start-Up being held up by a hand. White bookshelves filled with books and plants are visible in the background, out of focus. Description end.] #BillionDollarStartUp #BusinessBook #BusinessJourney #StartUp #Entrepreneurship #CanadianNonfiction #Nonfiction #NonfictionBook #NonfictionBooks #NonfictionBookReviews #BusinessTips #BusinessGrowth #ECWpress #CanadianBook #CanadianBooks #CanadianBusiness #CanadianPublishing (at Waterloo, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMSuBm1g-lv/?igshid=1hr2akrcc8dd6

[bookmama]

So behind on reviews, so get ready for a lot of review content for the next week or so!

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Thank you so much to @ecwpress and @netgalley for the gifted ALC of Take Back The Tray: Revolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions by Johsna Maharaj!

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Synopsis from the publisher: A beloved chef takes on institutional food and sparks a revolution with this manifesto, memoir from the trenches, and blueprint for reclaiming control from corporations and brutal bottom lines. “With hard-won insights and deep commitment, Joshna Maharaj takes us on a mouthwatering tour of what our collective food future might be.” ? Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System Good food generally doesn’t arrive on a tray, but Chef Joshna Maharaj knows that institutional kitchens have the ability to produce good, nourishing food, because she’s been making it happen over the past 14 years. She’s served meals to people who’d otherwise go hungry, baked fresh scones for maternity ward mothers, and dished out wholesome, scratch-made soups to stressed-out undergrads. She’s determined to bring health, humanity, and hospitality back to institutional food while also building sustainability, supporting the local economy, and reinvigorating the work of frontline staff. Maharaj reconnects food with health, wellness, education, and rehabilitation in a way that serves people, not just budgets, and proves change is possible with honest, sustained commitment on all levels, from government right down to the person sorting the trash. The need is clear, the time is now, and this revolution is delicious.

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I am a huge believer in the healing power of healthy food. This book was both enlightening and at times frustrating that these institutions, that we should be able to trust to provide healthy food, will go back to unhealthy options when not pressured. This is a great book for anyone who:

-Enjoys foodie reads

-Would like a behind the scenes look at how menu decisions are made in major institutions.

-The progress and road blocks in making healthier options more widely available.

-Loves nonfiction.

Pub date July 2021.

[bluestownmusic]

Recensie: Best Seat In The House – My Life In The Jeff Healey Band

Recensie: Best Seat In The House – My Life In The Jeff Healey Band // @ecwpress @JHealeyOfficial

Best Seat In The House – My Life In The Jeff Healey Band Format: E-book / ECW Press Tom Stephen with Keith Elliott Greenberg

Tekst: Peter Marinus

De carrière van bluesrockgitarist Jeff Healey mag met recht kort maar, zeer, krachtig genoemd worden.

Hij werd in 1966 in Toronto geboren en raakte op 1-jarige leeftijd blind door een tumor in zijn oog. Hierdoor raakte hij beide ogen kwijt.

Dit weerhield…

[radiofreeskaro]

Radio Free Skaro #734 - WHO is the Doctor, Too

Radio Free Skaro #734 - WHO is the Doctor, Too, where @graemeburk and Robert Smith? join the show to talk about their new #DoctorWho book, Who Is The Docto 2, from @ecwpress!

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The world is going through a tough time right now with many of us hunkering down to try to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus (friends, by doing nothing we are doing our part). So we at Radio Free Skaro hope to try to entertain and educate you over the coming weeks as we usually do, and this week, Graeme Burk and Robert Smith?…

[kinziethings]

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya #audiobook #gender #QueerFiction #ECWPress #AudioInsider

The Official Description: In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she.

Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. One plus one makes one. Life begets life. We are the period to a sentence, the effect to a cause, always belonging to someone. We are never our own.

This is why we are so lonely.

She of the Mountains is a beautifully rendered illustrated novel that…

[brownanddickson]

On our way to meet Billy Jensen. #forestcitykiller #justiceforjackie #ssdgm @billyjensen @ecwpress @chaptersindigo https://www.instagram.com/p/B3dBGmzHJKm/?igshid=5fd6z4wj3x5l

[fanlit]

🏆 One of our 2021 faves: THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS by @premeesaurus @ecwpress. Here's the rest of our list: https://t.co/zb7lu2OWcc [GIVEAWAY!] https://t.co/TVU9rtbOA2