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A quick reminder before I scurry back to the writi A quick reminder before I scurry back to the writing cave! Please join us this upcoming Sunday Dec. 10 @ 7pm ET / 5pm MT for some kickass crime fiction and fantastic company!! 

Registration is free!!! Come support indie booksellers and learn a new cocktail and kick off a noir-tinged holiday season maybe 🖤 

Tell your friends!!!! 

#linkinbio #inthedarkweforget #harpercollinsca #noiratthebar #dcnoiratthebar #authorsofinstagram #crimefiction
#nofilter close-ups of some of our 🎄ornaments: #nofilter close-ups of some of our 🎄ornaments:
1. a cute penguin we picked up at like Pier 1 (remember them?) maybe 10 yrs ago?
2 & 3. do you get a vintage vibe from these? They’re silvered glass baubles from the 1970s. I don’t know the exact age because my mum bought them when I was a kiddo.
4. this was part of a set of painted wooden ornaments my mum bought in the early or mid-80s. I don’t remember which year but I do remember going Cmas ornament shopping with her every Boxing Day at Eaton’s (remember them, fellow Canadians?)

These aren’t particularly stylish or elegant but I love continuing to build memories and traditions with them with my kids 💗

What about you? Do you have beloved or cherished ornaments / holiday traditions you’ve brought from your childhood into the present? ☺️
“You’re a triple-decker sauerkraut and toadsto “You’re a triple-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauuuuuuuce!” Classic tunes for tree trimming day 😁🎄🌟
Y’all I am so grateful to be part of the @sincna Y’all I am so grateful to be part of the @sincnational community and to’ve gotten to contribute as VP/Prez/Immediate Past Prez + as founder & Chair of the DEIJB Advisory Cmte ❤️‍🔥

Also currently in deadline-land so am stealing Jen’s post for #welovesinc day! 🌟

But Im goin’ live with @jahenn and others at 5pm MT to share the love. The reel will be posted on @sincnational later if you miss us live. 😘

Posted @withregram • @jenjchow I’m thankful to have served as president on the @sincnational board and that I’m currently immediate past president. The Sisters in Crime community is so generous, and I’ve made close friends from it. Hooray for Sisters in Crime! #WeLoveSinC
Im not saying Im jealous of anyone who gets an ARC Im not saying Im jealous of anyone who gets an ARC but Im not _not_ saying it either… 😁

Make sure to preorder your copy, lovelies, by visiting @wandamowrites’ link in her bio! You just know this’ll be another incredible book ❤️‍🔥

Posted @withregram • @wandamowrites HERE IT IS!!! My new book comes out June 18th and you can preorder it now by clicking the link in my bio. I cannot tell you how much I love this cover!🩷🩷🩷 @williammorrowbooks knocks it out the park every single time with my book covers!! If you like thrillers with a dash of social commentary, romance and characters to fall in love with, then you might want to get your order in now for WHAT YOU LEAVE BEHIND. Huge thanks to my amazing team at @williammorrowbooks and @aevitas_creative. And special love for my extraordinary agent @lorigalvin and my awesome editor @heyitsasante. Now I’m off to weep while staring at this beautiful blessing of a book!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH to my friends who create fab pos THANK YOU SO MUCH to my friends who create fab posts like this so I can repost bc Im at capacity with my WIP deadline!!! 😅😅😅

Lovelies, please read @eaaymar’s summary below of this incredible lineup I get to be a part of! 

Im excited to leave the writing cave for this great event on Dec 10th 📌. #linkinbio 

Posted @withregram • @eaaymar DC's next Noir at the Bar is virtual (and free!) and takes place on Sunday, December 10, at 7 pm ET. The lineup of writers is SO GOOD! Check it out:

@drrramina - author of #FASHIONVICTIM, KISMET, and the upcoming ALMOST SURELY DEAD (one of the first books from Mindy Kaling's own imprint!)

@saradivello - author of THE BROADWAY BUTTERLY (selected by Entertainment Weekly as a Best Book of summer 2023) and host of the popular interview series, Mystery and Thriller Mavens

@taralwrites - Multiple award-winning author of ONE NIGHT GONE, THE MOTHER NEXT DOOR, and THE WEEKEND RETREAT (which just received a loving review from Publishers Weekly!)

James Grady - legendary author of SIX DAYS OF THE CONDOR

@jennifergenevievegordon - Multiple award-winning author and co-host of the popular podcast, Vox Vomitus

@sgwong8 - National bestseller and Anthony award-finalist of IN THE DARK WE FORGET and former president of @sincnational 

And the event will feature a custom cocktail demonstration from mixologist @shinobipaws!
 
Hope you join us! Register here or in mah stories: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/dcnoir2023
Quick reading update before I scurry back into the Quick reading update before I scurry back into the writing cave: 

I did find parts of Harrow the Ninth slow for me but I looooooved the eventual payoff. Beautifully done. Now onto Nona! 

#authorsreadingforfun

(In case you’re curious, I like to read genres different from whatever Im writing. Im still bangin’ away at my latest psych thriller so SFF it is!)
Addendum: homemade raspberry jam on regular ole gr Addendum: homemade raspberry jam on regular ole grocery store-bought lemon cranberry scones. I can taste summer ☀️
I finally made this year’s jam! That was basical I finally made this year’s jam! That was basically my day. 😅
We harvested all the berries from our backyard during the summer but I didn’t have time to actually make the jams. (Thank you, freezer!)
Swipe to see some behind the scenes pics ☺️
For the curious: I don’t do a hot water bath; I turn the freshly-filled jars upside down to create the vacuum seal. It was a little like summer in my kitchen again—briefly anyway ☀️
My dad would have been 88 today. This photo was fr My dad would have been 88 today. This photo was from a wee family day trip to Victoria in March 2000, two months before he died. That’s him with my mum on the ferry. 
We had a complicated relationship. It’s wild to realize he’s been gone 23 yrs. I wish he could’ve known my amazing kids. I miss him.
Started a reread of this bad girl today
🖤💀🖤💀🖤💀🖤

#readingisgood #gideontheninth #tamsynmuirauthor
Look how cute we are @emi_writes_words! #nofilte Look how cute we are @emi_writes_words!

 #nofilter pic snapped by Richard Smith in the stacks @stalbertlibrary during #starfest2023 

#atomweight #emisasagawa #tidewaterpress #inthedarkweforget #sandrasgwong #harpercollinsca #canlit #canadianauthors #BIPOCauthors
#Halloween photo drop! #nofilter on the jack o la #Halloween photo drop! 
#nofilter on the jack o lanterns obvs so you can get the full effect 😁
First pic (also unfiltered) was early in the festivities. Our first kiddies came at 17:22, last duo was around 20:15 or so. 3 hours, maybe 35 kiddies, incl. teens all dressed up & delightful, still have too much candy 😅

Hope you all had an evening of joy, too, a bright spot in our dark times. 🩷

(Last pic: what sort of socks does a witch wear in those pointy black boots?)
THIS. WAS. SO. MUCH. FUN 😍😍😍 (video clip THIS. WAS. SO. MUCH. FUN 😍😍😍
(video clip from my world famous Speed Round!)

[Edited to add: Not that there’s anything wrong with Star Wars of course]

@emi_writes_words is an AMAZING interview with fascinating anecdotes and I am so honoured to have been a part of her debut book tour ☺️
Thank you, @stalbertlibrary & #starfest2023 !!!

#emisasagawa #atomweight #tidewaterpress
#sandrasgwong #inthedarkweforget #harpercollinsca #authorsofinstagram #canlit
In the @stalbertlibrary “green room.” Whaddaya In the @stalbertlibrary “green room.” Whaddaya think? The wayward locks definitely did whatever the heck they wanted, didn’t they? 😂
Well, the show goes on, regardless. On stage in 20!

#starfest2023 #stalbertlibrary #emisasagawa #atomweight #sandrasgwong #inthedarkweforget
I'll be on stage in only a few hours with Emi Sasa I'll be on stage in only a few hours with Emi Sasagawa for the St. Albert Readers Festival! Tix still available #linkinbio 

Come on down to see what weird shape my hair will be in by then..! I'm still working it out! 😂

But no matter what my wayward locks decide, I can promise you Emi and I will have an interesting and lively conversation including books, writing, publishing, identity, and privilege. 

Come on out and join us! Doors open at 18:30. Event begins at 19:00. @audreysbooks will be on hand and I hope you'll come support a debut author with me!! ❤️ 

#stalbertlibrary #starfest2023 #atomweight #tidewaterpress #emisasagawa #sandrasgwong #inthedarkweforget #harpercollinsca #authorsofinstagram
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