Summer 2024 was an amazing one, with fun readings (giving my own and going to those of other authors), a fabulous sidequest to visit Chicago for the first time, where I got to spend my birthday morning going through the archives and even sketching out a poem draft at the Chicago Poetry Foundation, and, finally, a great time at Capital Pride here in Ottawa.
For the first time, this year, my partner, spectacular queer speculative fiction and horror author James K. Moran, and I sold our books at the Ottawa Pride street market, part of the Pride celebrations held in Canada's capital towards the end of August. We sold alongside fellow Ontario authors the brilliant dark urban fantasy and horror writer Christian Baines and the fantastic YA and spec fiction author 'Nathan Burgoine. All three writers' numerous books are stellar and engaging queer romps with varying levels of darkness and styled for different ages. I highly recommend them, but beware you won't be able to stop at just one book for any of them!
I was absolutely wowed to meet so many readers at the Pride market, and the books of all four authors practically flew off the table into people's hands. I had no idea what to expect going into this endeavour, but attendees were passionate about reading, and truly interested in buying and talking about queer books, including poetry! It was a delight. And, all the people who brought their pets (from cats to dogs to cobras) out to the street fair made the weekend even better. It's definitely something we will consider doing again.
Hope you had an interesting summer, too!
Photo: Left to right: Authors 'Nathan Burgoine, James K. Moran, AJ Dolman and Christian Baines.
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