Mary Novik, The Globe and Mail
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 Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, was as glamorous as promised. About 200 women attended and Vancouver blogger Zoe captured the evening. We’re all hoping that Random House and Chatelaine bring Bookstravaganza back next year. A review of Muse by Dana Hansen appeared in the September issue of Quill & Quire and a substantial profile of me by David Chau appeared in the Best of Vancouver issue of The Georgia Straight. My blog, “Getting into the Mindset of Solange,” was included in Shaun Smith’s Fiction Craft column at Open Book Ontario, and my influence interview (with a caricature of me) came out in The Globe and Mail. A review of L’amante del Papa (the Italian translation of Muse) appeared in Economia Italiana. For more details about these reviews/interviews, please see Resources and Critiques, where you’ll find additional support material as well.