I can’t believe we’re less than two months away from the release of Aether and Ego! If you’re interested in reading it, please request it from your local library and/or pre-order it.

I spent all day yesterday setting up Facebook event listings for many of the events I’m doing to promote the book. I think I can even consider this a book tour! If you’re in Halifax, Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Edmonton, or Calgary please come say hello.

I was interviewed by the lit podcast arm of Oratoria Magazine on Sunday. Look for that linked to come out this Friday.

I’ve been posting some stop-motion videos of adapting Hugh Thomson’s 1984 P&P illustrations for A&E: examples 1, 2, 3 & 4. I’ll post some more through the summer. They are a joy to create!

I am sure there’s a bunch of promo I should be doing that I just don’t know about. Inanna has been very helpful telling me about things to do and handling a lot of promo themselves, but still, you can’t know what you don’t know, y’know?

Next up on my task list is reaching out to folks who post reviews online and asking them for one. You can help me with this by getting a copy through NetGalley and posting a review to Amazon or Goodreads or wherever else you like.

Publications: I had a couple stories come out a couple weeks ago: "Facial Deficits," about an facial allotransplantation recipient, which I wrote while I was working for the ENT department at Vanderbilt after escorting the guy who did the first face transplant in the US all around our campus (he was there to give grand rounds, IIRC, and was very generous answering my questions), in Blood + Honey, and then "Possible Purposes of Plastic Buttons" which is set at Vanderbilt during an inconvenient alien invasion, in Fiction on the Web.

Things that are bringing me joy this week: Angine de Poitrine and Count Binface.

Currently reading: Last time I mentioned Ravenous by Sara Cooper, which I was partway through, and the ending did not disappoint. Without spoiling anything, I’ll say I spent the last two chapters just saying “holy shit” increasingly loudly.

I’m back working at the community health centre, which means two 45-60-minute commutes/day, adding 1-2 books/week. I read the Heated Rivalry series (which should be called the Game Changers series but TV trumps book in the cultural zeitgeist, so.), which was of course fun and sexy, but also surprisingly arc-y, in that future books have moments that hint at how things are going for characters from previous books, like fun little Easter eggs.

Also recommended: A Bird on Every Tree by Carol Bruneau, The Summer War by Naomi Novik, and Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline.

I also read One Sunday Without Desire by Cecelia Frey but I hesitate to recommend it because it’s so weird and kind of a bummer (so of course I loved it).

Hope you all have wonderful weeks!

_{For full disclosure, if you buy any of the books linked above from Bookshop, I’ll get a tiny commission, which I normally promise to spend irresponsibly but this month would go to fixing our chimney.}