Smashwords is the first website to pre-release my new novel, Winter’s Rage. You can purchase the e-book here: Smashwordshttps://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/BWLCalder. My three earlier novels are also 50 % off on Smashwords until the end of July. Winter’s Rage will officially release in August.
Canada Day 2021 will be subdued or cancelled in most Canadian cities due to COVID-19 and the investigations of graveyards at former indigenous residential schools. My small effort at reconciliation has been to re-read my friend Joan Crate’s novel, Black Apple (Simon and Schuster Canada, 2016) about a Blackfoot girl taken from her family on the reserve to a residential school in southern Alberta in the late 1940s. Black Apple deals with all the horrors we’ve heard about the residential schools — children separated from their families and culture and given Christian names; subjected to brutal beatings, sexual abuse, and infectious illnesses that ripped through the institutions. Black Apple is fiction, but I found the story characters and situations gave me a depth I miss from current media reports.
Today, on the BWL Author’s blog, I write about how my novels got their designs https://bwlauthors.blogspot.com/
Amazon has finally decided to recognize Canada as the originator of paperback books. This means BWL no longer has to publish my books on Amazon.com with the higher USA conversation prices. BWL can now publish the books on Amazon.ca and price them to the Canadian marketplace. My books will still be available in the USA and worldwide.
Here’s a page of books on Amazon.ca with writings by Susan Calder and more. Amazon.ca : Susan Calder I’m not the Susan Calder who wrote the book on microwave cooking, although her name prompted me to buy her book years ago. The page doesn’t include e-books for A Deadly Fall and To Catch a Fox, but you can find the kindle formats by clicking on the titles. I’m pleased to see a couple of short story collections that include my writing: Passport to Murder, Coast Lines and Coast Lines 2.
One of my projects this spring has been cataract surgery. Today, I write about my own and painter Claude Monet’s experiences with this on the BWL author blog https://bwlauthors.blogspot.com/
On today’s BWL author blog I offer my 2 pence on the Meghan and Harry’s infamous interview with Oprah Winfrey. The couple has come a long way since their wedding almost three years ago at Windsor Castle.
The pandemic is still at the top of most of our minds, but when it is finally over will writers want to put it behind them or explore it in their stories? I ask this question on today’s BWL Author blog.
In my BWL author blog post for the new year, I discuss how how I get my ideas for my stories.
I hope your Christmas celebrations were happy this year, despite the difficulties. Calgary was fortunate with its weather. A few days before Christmas, we got a huge dump of snow, which made for a pretty holiday season. The weather turned relatively mild after that. High temperatures slightly above freezing and abundant sunshine continue into January. I find our city parks crowded on weekends, with people making the most of what’s available during Calgary’s lockdown. Between writing, reading, clearing out my basement clutter and outdoor activities, I expect to have plenty to keep me occupied this winter. Best wishes to you all for a healthy and happy 2021.
