About the Author
Mix Hart
Mix Hart writes novels, the Peter-Not Pizzaface junior fiction series, picture books, and freelance articles, and is a blogger at Musings . . . by Mix Hart. Hart has lived all across Canada from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts including the Yukon as well as in the United Kingdom. She currently resides in Kelowna, British Columbia, where she and her husband are parents to three daughters and two dogs. Queen of the Godforsaken is her first young adult novel.
The level of hormones found in this edition of Read This, Then That is high (as is the love for Levi jeans and David Bowie). In both Live From the Underground and Queen of the Godforsaken we are introduced to a pair of teens in the 1980s who do not have the easiest lives. ... Read more
The 88th Academy Awards is this Sunday, and everyone is speculating who’ll take home the top prizes in acting (though, spoiler alert: they’ll go to white people). In CanLit, the main characters can display heart and villainy, conviction and uncertainty, cowardliness ... Read more
Get into the late-fall launch groove with our featured readings and launches this week, including two Brick Books Classics launches in Victoria and Toronto.
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Lots to do in this week in book events: including the ushering in of a new Giller winner! With a 3/5 chance of it being an indie book, we like those odds!
And of course, it's Remembrance Day on Wednesday, folks – please do take a moment to reflect in whichever way suits you ... Read more
Just because launch season is slowing, it's FAR from over: there's Words festival in London, plus all the great reading series and launches you could ever hope to shake a stick at (though we don't know why you would hope that, we respect your choices).
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Holy Toledo: there are THREE LPG40 events coming at'cha this week in St. John's, Vancouver, and Winnipeg! Not enough? There's also IFOA going down in Toronto, and some author readings mixed in for good measure.
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There's tons going on this week, including Vancouver Writers' Fest, our second LPG40 event, this time in Montreal, and the International Festival of Authors in Toronto and surrounding area. BUT: if you go and do anything this week, make sure you VOTE first. VOTE. VOTE. VOTE. ... Read more
WAKE UP from that Turkey-coma: there's literary events to be had. If you're in Toronto, be sure to celebrate the LPG's 40th Anniversary with us at Ben McNally this Thursday. And if you're not, there's tons of great things going on Canada-wide, like WordFest in Calgary! ... Read more
THIS WEEK: events with authors Jacob Wren, Jeanne Randolph, and Mix Hart, all happening in Western Canada.
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