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Lintusen Press. Author, poet, publisher, educator, Rotarian, Peacebuilder, penpal, exhausted human. Puhun Suomea. Je parles francais.

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Friday Nov 28 is the last Write-in at the Salmon Arm branch of Okanagan Regional Library. 6-7:30 pm. It's always easier to write away from home!

Come on down!

28.11.2025 06:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Every Friday in October and November, pop into the Salmon Arm branch of ORL for FRIDAY NIGHT WRITES! 6:00 to 7:30 pm Bring your own writing supplies. Get prompts from me or work on your own project. You know it's easier to write out of the house! #amwriting #localauthor #writingcommunity #SalmonArm

13.11.2025 11:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Notice of Local Author Book Fair on Oct 3 Fri at ORL Salmon Arm featuring a graphic of book spines

Notice of Local Author Book Fair on Oct 3 Fri at ORL Salmon Arm featuring a graphic of book spines

Local authors' event at Okanagan Regional Library Salmon Arm branch on Friday evening October 3. Come meet some authors, buy some books, get some books signed, celebrate literacy in our community

30.09.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Now is your best chance to find my books available for half price at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find my books and many more at www.smashwords.com/shelves/prom... all month! #SWSale2025 #Smashwords #IReadCanadian #CanadianAuthor #BCAuthor

01.07.2025 23:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#HappyCanadaDay
Let's celebrate the day with 16 #Canadian short stories!
#SorryNotSorry anthology
#IReadCanada #CanadianAuthors #shortstories including some #hockeystories #CanadianValues
Books2Read.com/SorryNotSorry

01.07.2025 11:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#HappyCanadaDay! Here's a great anthology of stories to celebrate #Canada from 16 great Canadian authors.
#IReadCanadian #CanadianAuthor #Booksky
#SORRYNOTSORRY
Books2Read.com/SorryNotSorry

30.06.2025 21:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sorry, Not Sorry edited by Shawn Bird Reviewed by Robert RuntΓ©If you are an Alberta separatist, a truck convoy supporter, or Fox News enthusiast, this anthology is probably not for you. For everybody else, this is a pretty great collectio...

Wow! What a great review!
www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
#OttawaReviewofBooks #IReadCanadian
#shortstories #Canadianauthors
#SorryNotSorryAnthology

17.06.2025 23:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The #SorryNotSorry anthology of Canadian stories is looking absolutely fantastic. Releases on Canada Day. Pre-orders coming soon. #amreadingshortstories #amreadingCanadian #IReadCanadian #amreading #CanadianAuthors #CanadianBooks

09.06.2025 23:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#amediting
again.
I feel like I've been editing for days, weeks, months.
Ah. Perhaps
Because I have been!
But it's the last 50 pages! There's light at the end of the tunnel.
#amwriting #IReadCanadian This is the #collaborativenovel workshopped at #WhenWordsCollide2024 #LintusenPress

31.05.2025 05:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So what's the real beef with Harvard, do you think?
Did they refuse him admission or something?

24.05.2025 01:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy International Fluevog Day! #IFD2025 I used up a store credit on these graphite (dark grey) Lili. Fingers crossed they fit well and look as great as I think they should! #FluevogShoes Did you celebrate today? What new shoe joined your household?

16.05.2025 07:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Word on Lake Writers Festival – a festival for all writers and readers

We're counting down the days until @wordonthelake.bsky.social Writers Conference at #SalmonArmBC #ShuswapLake May 16-18 2025. Check out WordontheLakeWritersFestival.com for all the details and when you can register last minute on site next weekend! #amwriting
#BCWriters #WordontheLake

12.05.2025 05:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's the first weekend of the month so I'm playing with #FuriousFiction prompts from Australian Writers' Centre. I've got a vote in there and something silk, and I've used angry and circle. Now to find a natural place for strike... 250 of 500 words. There's room! ;-) #amwriting #writingcommunity

03.05.2025 20:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Current submission calls: SORRY NOT SORRY ANTHOLOGY SHORT STORY CALL: Lintusen Press is looking for a variety of short stories celebrating Canada. THE BRIEF: Canadian authors are invited to contribute a story that is set in…

Just over 2 weeks left on the Lintusen Press #submissioncall for #shortstories from #Canadianauthors for their upcoming Sorry Not Sorry anthology. See the details at lintusenpress.ca/submissions
#writingcommunity, #amwriting #BCauthors #CanLit

30.04.2025 00:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Who's coming to #SalmonArmBC on gorgeous Shuswap Lake for @wordonthelake.bsky.social? Such an awesome, intimate festival where you dine with the presenters and network with other writers. Register now!
#amwriting #BCwriters #writingconference #ShuswapArts #writingcommunity SEE YOU THERE!

29.04.2025 19:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Hurry, Hurry! No time to lose!
Early bird rates for the Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival end on April 20! And the final day to register is April 27.
www.wordonthelakewritersfestival.com

18.04.2025 22:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Word on Lake Writers Festival – a festival for all writers and readers

Link to #WordontheLakeWritersFestival website: wordonthelakewritersfestival.com

20.04.2025 01:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#Writers! Heads' up! April 20 Early Bird Reg for #WordontheLakeWritersFestival closes! This lovely intimate festival May 16-18 2025 in beautiful #SalmonArmBC is a highlight of my literary year. You should come! Great presenters food & entertainment
#amwriting #CanadianAuthors #BCWriters #ShuswapBC

20.04.2025 01:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lintusen Press a collaborative micropress

Happy #BCBookDay!
I recommend picking up a book by BC publisher LintusenPress.ca like #PlatypusTales a quartet of quirky stories from 4 BC authors! #canadianauthor #IReadCanadian #BCBooks

17.04.2025 03:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Murdering Mr. Edwards ebook by Shawn L. Bird - Rakuten Kobo Read "Murdering Mr. Edwards" by Shawn L. Bird available from Rakuten Kobo. One obnoxious English teacher. Twelve Tales of his death. Norton Edwards, English department head, is the reigning despo...

Hey! KOBO Sale on #MurderingMrEdwards a darkly humorous novella where the English teacher is murdered by a different staff member in every chapter that Diana Gabaldon said is "Clever, funny, and totally engaging!" www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

10.04.2025 05:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I've been reading #DianaGabaldon 's A Breath of Snow and Ashes. Here's a quote about bad leadership (referring to Hodgepole)

08.04.2025 09:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I've been reading through #DianaGabaldon 's A Breath of Snow & Ashes ( #Outlander Book 6) set just before the American revolution, and finding all sorts of parallels with our times. #literature #IAmReadingHistoricalFiction #WhatGoesAroundComesAround

03.04.2025 23:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Criminal Code Federal laws of Canada

Looks like the federal Director of Public Prosecution should be laying treason charges against a sitting premier without delay and that premier should be removed from office immediately.
laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-4...

23.03.2025 22:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Heavens to Murgatroyd edited by Shawn Bird Reviewed by Robert RuntΓ©Lintusen Press is a small collaborative, Canadian publisher, best known for β€œMurdering Mr. Edwards,” wherein various classroom teachers each separately plot the death of the ob...

www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...

What a wonderful review of a fantastic project.
#HeavenstoMurgatroyd #IReadCanadian #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #LintusenPress

15.03.2025 23:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Pre-orders are available now.
A launch on Saturday, Mar 15, 2025 for this project to benefit a talented Ontario poet.
#HeavensToMurgatroyd
#IReadCanadian #shortstories #poetry #CanadianReads #WriterCommunity

11.03.2025 23:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Smashwords is having a huge ebook sale!
Check out all the Lintusen Press books at 50% off! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

#smashwords #ebookweek25

01.03.2025 23:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Smashwords is having a huge ebook sale!
Check out all the Lintusen Press books at 50% off! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

#smashwords #ebookweek25

01.03.2025 23:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Platypus Tales anthology is out!
A quartet of quirky short stories celebrating the delightfully odd from BC writers @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social @janetlw.bsky.social me and Chris McMahen
Find your retailer at Books2Read.com/PlatypusTales
#IReadCanadian #BCBooks #CanadianWriters #Readers #Booksky

01.03.2025 10:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A snowy day in Salmon Arm, so I did 2000 steps weaving through the aisles of Canadian Tires this afternoon. Found a set of ceiling lights though, snapped photos and got hubs agreement, so I'll pick those up next time. Not a very exciting #FamilyDay here.

18.02.2025 02:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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