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September News, Reviews, & Interviews
Events for Muse began with a pleasant book club evening at Book Warehouse (Black Bond Books). This year at Word Vancouver, the driving rain and gale-force winds drove us inside the Vancouver Public Library. I read from Muse in the Blenz coffee shop, a much warmer venue than the Canada Writes tent would have been outside. The first West Coast Bookstravaganza, held in the… Read More
August & September 2013 YummyMummyClub.ca Events
Muse has been spotlighted by YummyMummyClub.ca as a featured book club read with this groovy headline, Gratify Your Addiction For Historical Fiction. Lots of yummy things are going on here, including a book draw if you “click here to spill it”. Also, twenty lucky Twitter Book Club members can win free copies by retweeting the @BookaliciousCA #MuseNovel contest on Friday, August 23 until midnight ET. The Twitter book club chat will take place on Wednesday, September 18 from 9:00-10:00 pm ET using the hashtag #MuseNovel. Not only will you get a chance to chat with other yummy readers, but you can ask me–that’s @MaryNovik2–any question you want, as long as you stay within 140 characters. Read more
August Reviews of Muse
Reviews of Muse are coming in daily–three on August 17 alone! Athena McKenzie reviews Muse in the Globe & Mail, Robert J. Wiersema reviews Muse in The Vancouver Sun, and Jennifer Pawluk reviews Muse in the Winnipeg Free Press. And there’s more. Teresa Goff reviews Muse in the August issue of Trek Magazine and I am interviewed by Tracy Sherlock of The Vancouver Sun (reprinted in… Read More
Booktrailer for L’amante del Papa
Emanuele Sana has won the best director award at the Caffeina Festival in Viterbo, Italy, for the booktrailer he created for L’amante del Papa, the Italian edition of Muse, which was published by Newton Compton Editori today, July 25. Here’s a photo of Emanuele receiving his award. Read more
July publication of L’amante del papa
A few days ago, I received the cover for the Italian edition of Muse, to be called L’amante del Papa, which means The Pope’s Lover. The cover features the 14th-century gate to the Palais des Papes in Avignon, where Muse is set. Today, I found out the publication date. L’amante del Papa will be published much sooner than I expected, on July 25, 2013, actually a few weeks before the Canadian edition. Newton Compton Editori has done a great trailer for it, which you can watch on the Muse page. Read more
The first reviews of Muse are here
There’s probably a reason Fifty Shades of Grey was published in the month of June and Ulysses came out in February.” Thus spake The Toronto Star in its June 28, 2013 essay, “The Best of Summer Reading,” which included a list of the top 20 books for summer reading. I was very happy to see that my novel, Muse, was on the list and also to read the first review of Muse, by Joan Givner, in the Summer 2013 issue of BC Bookworld. Thank you, Joan, for the nice things you say about my novel. The review is on page 22 of this on-line copy. Read more
August 13, 2013 – my second novel, Muse, will be published by Doubleday Canada
The excitement is building as the publication date for the Canadian edition of Muse approaches. An Italian edition will be published by Newton Compton Editori with the provocative title, L’amante del Papa, followed by a French-language edition from Éditions Hurtubise. I hope to have publication dates soon and a title for the French edition. Can it be any more racy than the Italian one? I’m eager for my first glimpse of the foreign book covers. I’m feeling like a very lucky gal these days. Read more
Frankfurt Book fair
The Frankfurt Book fair opens today. My agents at Cooke International have taken my second novel, Muse, and an Italian publisher is already interested! Buon giorno, everyone! Muse will be published by Doubleday in Canada next year.
Fascinating essay on language in Conceit and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
“Codling,” by Seana Graham, at the blog Confessionofignorance. This is is a fascinating essay on language in Conceit and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Thanks, Seana!