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QC Read My Book features Wood Buffalo by George Mercer
When I first heard the expression “dyed in the green” used to describe the passion of people who work for our parks and protected areas, I knew it would be the title of a book I would write some day...
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Regina author Byrna Barclay commends Save On Foods for supporting local...
Byrna Barclay has a new name for Save On Foods. “I keep calling it save on books,” the local author said of the south Regina grocery store. For the past six weeks, Save On Foods has hosted local...
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Four Murders in a Small Town by William Allan
I never thought I’d write a book, especially a fictional book. As a former Leader-Post reporter and copy editor, I was always interested in nonfiction. I have countless nonfiction books, and that’s all...
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QC Read My Book features And It Was Very Good by Ed Olfert
And It Was Very Good is a book that reminds us that … well, that life is in fact very good! And It Was Very Good, by Ed Olfert. In my short stories, which have appeared in the Prince Albert Daily...
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QC Read My Book features Forever Changed by Cheri Helstrom
Everyone has a story to tell. That is how the adage goes, and I believe it to be so. A few years ago, I wrote a piece for my writing class on the topic of Remembrance Day. Of course, my father came to...
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University of Regina professor releases book that takes another perspective...
According to a Regina author, the United States has been fighting the same war since its inception. Mark Anderson, a Luther College history professor at the University of Regina, has completed his...
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QC Read My Book features Good Morning Sunshine! A Mindfulness Story by Trina...
Fifteen years ago, I learned a principle that changed my life. If I just focus on living in the present moment, instead of replaying the past or worrying about the future, I would feel less stress and...
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Controversial author peddles book despite fourth venue cancellation
After having book signings cancelled at four locations in Regina, author Candis McLean took to the street, selling books and talking to people without an official venue. McLean, author of When Police...
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QC Read My Book featuring God in My Life: How God Speaks to Me, by Patricia...
My unique style of prayer began as a child. I would walk and talk with God, just like the early prophets of the Bible. During a car accident at age 17, I experienced a place of indescribable love while...
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QC Read My Book featuring Tales Of The Modern Nomad: Monks, Mushrooms and...
Will he use a knife? A definite possibility. How about a gun? No, I’ve been with him for hours and he can’t be hiding that. Does he have a gang waiting up ahead for an ambush? Hmm, that would make for...
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Bing Crosby, The Happy Hooker — and others he interviewed
Lorne Harasen decided to go mute. His guest too. The local radio host had been interviewing an American funeral executive, in town to talk to colleagues. The interview was good, if not great, and...
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QC Read My Book featuring There's WHAT in my WHAT? by Cherry Staszczak
When my children were born in the early 1980s, I did what I suspect most parents at that time did — I used Johnson & Johnson baby products. When my grandson was born 10 years ago, I made certain...
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Read My Book featuring Rescued, by Janice Howden
Rescued tells the story of Hawkeye, the Tibetan Terrier who was raised in a place where dogs are bred and sold for profit. He and his brother Freddie are forced to leave the “puppy mill” and head out...
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Read My Book features How to Self Publish Inexpensive Books and Ebooks, by...
Are you a first-time author? Have you already published your first book and didn’t like the experience? Or are you thinking of writing a book, but just dread the printing and marketing of it? Well, How...
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Read My Book featuring Yellow Dog by Miriam Körner
If someone told me 15 years ago I would live in a tiny log cabin I had built myself, surrounded by my sled dogs waiting for the first snow to fall, I would have laughed at them. “Nice dream, but I grew...
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Read My Book featuring Up the Creek! by Kevin Miller
Anyone who has grown up in Saskatchewan and then moved to another part of Canada inadvertently takes on a role they never anticipated: that of apologist for their home province. People who have driven...
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Read My Book features With Love, From Iraq by Maureen Haddock
With Love, From Iraq is a love story with a satisfying ending. It is the story of Saskatoon’s Wajid and Maysoon Toma, who faced dangerous circumstances while trying to leave Iraq. They owe their...
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New project encourages people to read residential school memoir
David Carpenter didn’t realize how many people The Education of Augie Merasty would touch when he wrote it. Flash forward a few years and the residential school memoir has been chosen for the inaugural...
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Augie Merasty, author and residential school survivor, dead at 87
Author and residential school survivor Joseph (Augie) Merasty, 87, died Monday morning in Prince Albert, according to a news release from University of Regina Press. Merasty was 86 years old when his...
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Author launches defamation suit against University of Regina professor
An author whose attempts to publicize her book last fall in Regina were stymied by protesters has launched a defamation suit against a University of Regina professor. Journalist Candis McLean, formerly...
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