New cookbok offers step-by-step illustrations instead of text instructions
Visual thinkers are sure to love this new cook-by-picture concept cookbook. Picture Cook is a full-colour, hardcover cookbook that offers step-by-step illustrations instead of text instructions. It...
View ArticleBlurb helps you give the gift of memories this holiday
Looking for a personalized gift idea? Here are some suggestions from Blurb for giving a customized book or ebook. You could create a photo book, family history book, cook book or even a Facebook...
View ArticleTake a relationship health quiz
Is your inner child keeping you trapped in a bad relationship? Steve Fogel, author of Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, which is due out March 11, says there are five questions you...
View ArticleGuide offers modern twists on classic ‘dos
Want to know how to create braids, knots and buns? The New Braiding Handbook will show you how. The full-colour guide will help you master the trendiest twists, fishtails and updos. The book features...
View ArticleNew Joanne Kilbourn mystery by Gail Bowen being released March 3
The wait is almost over for fans of Canadian crime fiction writer Gail Bowen’s Joanne Kilbourn mysteries. The newest book in the series, 12 Rose Street, is being released March 3. After reading an...
View ArticleJohn Fogerty's strong work ethic continues
It might be an understatement to say that 1969 was a hectic year for John Fogerty. Then a member of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fogerty was the catalyst behind one of the most prolific years in rock...
View ArticleHard work is the foundation of Fogerty’s success
REGINA — It might be an understatement to say that 1969 was a hectic year for John Fogerty. Then a member of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fogerty was the catalyst behind one of the most prolific...
View ArticleProudflesh a decade of short stories
I’m a late-blooming writer. I had to find my way through marriage, widowhood, parenting, and 40 years of social work before I could concentrate on creative self-expression. I begin writing most...
View ArticleVictoria Park becomes Quidditch pitch
REGINA — Children were crouching on the moist grass in Victoria Park, eyes squeezed shut and tiny hands grasping halved pool noodles. Behind them, three lollipop-like hoops of varying heights towered...
View ArticleAm I The Only One: Struggling Being A Teen
It didn’t take long after my first book, Eating Myself Crazy, that I knew a second one was not far behind. However, the next one would be for teens. During my book signing events with Eating Myself...
View ArticleA passion for Canadian dolls inspired collector to self-publish book | Video
REGINA Lisa Healy has always loved dolls. As a child, she enjoyed playing with them. As an adult, she is passionate about collecting them. “I’ve collected dolls for over 20 years,” Healy said, seated...
View ArticleSharing My Life: Building the Co-operative Movement
Sharing My Life: Building the Co-operative Movement is my memoir of over 60 years on the importance of co-operatives in building the economy and social fabric of Saskatchewan. I want that this social...
View ArticleNo Place for Kids explores some dark issues
No Place for Kids (Wandering Fox Imprint, Heritage House Publishing, 2014), is the reissue of one of my books whose publisher went bankrupt more than a decade ago. Originally written as the other side...
View ArticleButton Hill a young reader’s tale
When I was a boy, fetching vegetables from the basement of my grandmother’s farmhouse filled me with dread. Time and again, my younger brother and I actually hid to avoid climbing down the rickety...
View ArticleWhen steamboats — yes, steamboats — knit Saskatchewan together | Video
Twas a dark and stormy day. As a storm battered a small steamship, passengers raced back and forth across the ship, their shifting weight putting it in even greater danger of capsizing. Finally, the...
View ArticleRead My Book, Tales of a Red-Headed Sea-Witch by J. E. Hunter
Growing up in Saskatoon, winter provided me with a lot of time to read indoors. I became interested in creative writing as a child, and that interest never passed, even when I went to the University of...
View ArticleSaskatchewan can be a strange place
I love strange things. This does not mean that everything I love is strange. In order to avoid vengeance from family members, I should clarify that my relatives are relatively normal. However, many...
View ArticleQC Read My Book featuring What is Love? by Jayna Nicholson
Ever since I was a child, I have loved writing and I have loved animals. I have always wanted to write the kind of story that you remember from your childhood and still find touching. What is Love: A...
View ArticleRead My Book featuring Mommy Needs The Potty! by Jenn Greschner
A long time ago I decided my intention in this life is to be brave, have fun and bring joy to others. Making adults laugh has always been easy for me. A sarcastic gag here, a sharp one-liner there and...
View ArticleIF NOT 4 U and Some Shoes by Laurie Nenson
The inspiration to write a novel about shoes came partly out of my own obsession with the wardrobe staple (an affinity I share with every single one of my gal-pals) but mostly in reaction to a...
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