It’s always a great time to go to Montreal and last weekend was no exception. I am lucky to live a short plane ride away. I met up with one of my closest friends for a girls’ trip (I’ve posted a bunch of photos on socials for those of you interested). One of the highlights of the trip was two beautiful editions of graphic novels, originally in German and translated into French, of Pride and Prejudice and Emma, by Claudia Kühn, Tara Spruit, and of course Jane Austen. Having been born and mostly raised prior to the Charter right to French education having been passed, my French is pretty atrocious, but I can read with only a little trouble, and since I already know the stories of these books so well, it’s a pleasure to pore over them.

I have no real writing news this month. I was the featured poet in the August 2025 issue of Scifaikuest but haven’t seen my copy yet, presumably because of all the silly buggers being played with international shipping right now. Otherwise, all of my time has been spent on prepping and priming the house we just bought so we can paint over the many, many drywall patches left after we had the original 1919 wiring replaced. It’s a cute little 2 bed 1 bath fixer-upper and I couldn’t be more thrilled about it, but we’re going to have to put in a lot of sweat equity to make it workable.

Next month I will begin substantive edits on my novel Aether and Ego. I’m new to the editing process from the author side so I am interested to see how it goes, and excited to get feedback from the editor Inanna is providing. I’ll keep you all posted on how that goes!