This Sunday, I'll be reading and participating in a panel event titled Each Burning Tile: Writing About Race, Diversity, and Identity as part of this year's Word Vancouver Festival. If you're in Vancouver, do join us at Harbour Centre downtown--tickets to the festival are free, giving you access to all the other exciting events. You… Continue reading Reading at Word Vancouver 2022
Tag: fiction
In Conversation with Francesca Ekwuyasi
The past weeks have been hectic, what with a new role at work, a deadline for an anthology, manuscript consulting for SFU. However, I'm pleased to announce that I have been better at carving out reading time in the past months--I'll talk about the titles in another post. Recently though, I have had the pleasure… Continue reading In Conversation with Francesca Ekwuyasi
Restart
At the risk of jinxing a streak, I'll own up to being productive with my writing lately. I commit myself to a thousand words per session. My goal is to have a first draft of the second novel by summer's end. I have procrastinated about this for so long, thinking I need more research before… Continue reading Restart
Book Cover: The Cine Star Salon
Finally, I am sharing the book cover for my forthcoming debut novel, The Cine Star Salon. Love that it evokes that aspirational salon vibe while hinting at imperfections beneath the surface (check out that texture). A lovely work by Kate Hargreaves of coruskate.com. I promised an excerpt, but for now check out the synopsis at… Continue reading Book Cover: The Cine Star Salon
Writing Weary
Posting an excerpt may be a form of writerly laziness, but I fess up to being lazy these days anyway and for that reason, I've been careful not to publicize this blog. For now, this is just a quiet place for thoughts and noteworthy things I encounter as a writer. And what follows is a good example.… Continue reading Writing Weary
Leah Ranada 