Kate Tell-Tale Heartfield

Good morning! My novel MERCUTIO is out in the UK today. The best thing I've done. My thanks to my editor Jane Johnson, my agent Jennie Goloboy, to Leo Nickolls for the cover, and to Maxim Reston for the audiobook:

Good morning Ottawa and other Ontario municipalities! Let's go vote!

Well that is a pleasant surprise in Brazil! It looked bad an hour ago.

Until today, I, a non-American, thought the Cheesecake Factory was a cheesecake factory. That's on me.

Card payment at restaurants Cars Smog Acid rain Cheese Smoking, i.e. less of it Deodorants Streaming audio & video quality Star Wars The paper for comic books Acceptance for diverse sexuality & gender expression - and we better not let these MFs take us back!

Brussels sprouts

Friday lunch! I went to make scones to use up the cranberries, remembered as I dumped the butter into the flour that my oven is broken, and made bannock instead. In addition to appliance death week, this is also surprise! brake repair week. But lunch is good.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Today's newsletter:

The Quantum Dawn is out soon! (Today in UK!) Derek and I both had debut novels in 2018 (The Quantum Magician for him), and for a while we both stepped back from other work to focus on novels and wrote together in the library. So I feel a kind of vicarious pride in this series, ha. It is excellent.

I have a weird announcement. On and off for the last five years, as a contract writer, and as a senior writer on staff, I've been hoping to be allowed to say where I worked. Today I finally got the green light: I've been working on the next Mass Effect. 1/6

Nooo Ullmark 😬

Following the Alberta referendum like clockwork.

People gathering in a coffee shop on a sunny afternoon to talk about books, with pistachio croissants and kids playing chess at a nearby table: Can recommend.

News you can use! The Chatelaine (also published as Armed in Her Fashion) is my first and weirdest book. It you liked Mercutio, you will probably like The Chatelaine, which has a similar vibe and time period. (Late 13th/early 14th c.) (And vice versa!)

Took the day off so I could be a guest at a bookstore book club this afternoon. Book clubs are so great and I love speaking with them when I can.

Yep yep this. I'm not celebrating over here. Sure, we've postponed (another) separatist referendum bid (they're not going to give up, because the people funding them and pulling their strings are not), but. *Confirmation* that Alberta is mostly bigot by volume? Not fun.

Anyway I just said no to an invitation, please clap (the invitation was cool, just sometimes no is the answer)

Had a lovely time at Can*Con* this weekend. I am exhausted and my cat is miffed but I hugged a lot of friends, saw a lot of smiles I haven't seen in too long, and had some great conversations about art and life. Such a well run con. *plus a few hours at Wakefield Writers Fest today, also lovely

This was great!

OK it is true that I spent much of the con yesterday in aunty mode but I can confirm that I did in fact return the baby

Looking forward to more Can*Con today! I'll be dashing off to the Wakefield Writers Festival this afternoon, but at Can*Con until 12:30.

Lovely day at Can*Con, catching up with friends and connecting with readers. Tomorrow I am on two panels: Writing for a Big IP at 10 a.m., and The Limitations We Bring to Reinvention at 11:30 a.m.

Good morning! Today I am off to Can*Con at the Brookstreet Hotel in Ottawa. I'll be signing in the vendors room (which is open to the public without a ticket) at 11 a.m.

flight angels have an 11 year old boy in Bemidji (with citizenship) who father was deported to mexico. he is broken without his dad. family is requesting a flight for a visit, it would have to be unaccompanied, due to status issues. it is $2100. can we raise this? i am @ziibiing on venmo.

I don't make it to the Main Branch of the Ottawa Public Library often lately but today I had research to do in the Ottawa Room. Stopped to admire the Gerald Trottier murals, among the few things I'll miss about the building. Petition to keep this public art accessible: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/a-...

Just spent a wonderful hour with an online book club talking about The Embroidered Book with readers who had the kinds of experiences I hoped readers would have with it, and asked deep questions that made me think, and man, there is nothing better. Balm for the tired author.