In Review: The Week of October 28th

On the Blog

~ We made a Halloween card game out of some of the monsters and scary protagonists found in the pages of our CanLit titles in this month’s DLY. Download your own copy here.~ We explored the literary talents of D.G. Jones’ poetry in our Poetry in Motion column as well as Jamie Tennant‘s fiction: his debut novel is our Friday Reads pick this week.~ We wrapped up our (Women’s) Writer’s Block series for Women’s History Month with the amazing Margaret Christakos

Around the Web

~ Bookstore hopping: only read this article if you’re okay planning your vacations around the locations of awesome bookstores via Bookriot~ If you have strong feelings about the Oxford comma then this article may be of interest to you: 6 Punctuation Marks Hated By Famous Authors via Mental Floss~ If you’ve noticed a lot of books with ‘girl’ in the title, you’re not the only one: FiveThirtyEight investigates the trend.

What Else We’re Reading

We had three amazing authors read out our Boos & Books event at the International Festival of Authors here in Toronto this past Tuesday. They’ve inspired us to pick up their latest works with their fantastic performances!