Stephanie Domet

Category: book news and views

  • Blowing my mind

    My cousin Darlene emailed me the other day to say she saw someone reading Homing on the subway in Toronto. Some total stranger, whose friends have read my book and loved it, and so she’s reading it too. This completely undoes me, somehow. To think of my little book out in the big world making…

  • All I’m writing these days is lists

    Ain’t it the truth. Lists, lists, lists. I just made three: a master list, my sub-list and Kev’s sub-list. Later, I might make a list of the lists I have to make. My brain is swirly and the only cure is listing. Once, when we were on vacation, after a time of great list-making and…

  • Whoops, forgot one!

    Perhaps it appeared I was avoiding this question from Lynn, since I plain old skipped over it yesterday: How do you fit regular writing into your days, on top of full time work at CBC? Is your writing time carefully scheduled? Do you stick to scheduled writing times? Do you set yourself mini deadlines along…

  • See you tonight?

    Just a quick note that Atlantic Book Awards Week is underway…lots of events this week. Tonight I’ll be at the Company House on Gottingen Street at 8pm. There’s a book panel featuring the nominees for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award: Mark Blagrave, Catherine Banks and Ian Colford. We’ll be talking about the…

  • Last night and next week

    Kev has been on tour the last month with Steve Bowers, Norma MacDonald and Christina Martin. They call it the Whisky Hymnal tour and it’s been amazing. Four great singer songwriters, singing their great songs, telling stories, playing on each other’s tunes and taking pot shots at each other. I made it out to four…

  • Digging in the dirt

    Sometimes I forget to look up. I get so deep inside what I’m doing…full time job, editing a book, writing Fallsy Downsies in my head, being married, trying to keep the house from falling down…I just lose sight of everything around me. Or, I make a set of assumptions about what’s likely happening. I decide…

  • Flexibility

    Went to yoga tonight, with the usual monkey mind and ring of pain around my shoulders. Left a little calmer and a little less cramped up. Met a woman there named…well, doesn’t matter what she’s named. Anyhow. There was a chair set up for her, to accommodate her yoga practise. Pretty much the first thing…

  • Among writers

    The fiercely fantastic Sue Goyette hosted a writers’ salon at her house this afternoon. It was awesome, in a word. So great to sit in a beautiful green room, with good snacks, a glass of port and writers and poets for company. We discussed the necessity of writing for happiness and the reality of working…

  • Busy busy

    I’ve added a bunch of stuff to the sidebar, including dates you can find me out and about, reading and such. Plus, lots of links to click if you’re into that kind of thing.