Sarah Butland's Blog

With the many book genres out there, and undeniable talent of authors, choosing my next book from my To Be Read pile(s) is always a wonderful challenge. Every book on my shelf (and in my closet, dresser and stacked in a corner) teaches me something about myself, about life and about living, even the fictional [...]

When helping organize Read by the Sea, a local literary festival, I discovered David A Robertson, an Indigenous highly-acclaimed author of an outstanding amount of books. When I first reached out, with some other invitations sent, the request was for him to read from The Theory of Crows, a fictional novel, though based on other [...]

While her website alludes, Michelle Robinson‘s start began in the UK but, like many good stories, her setting changed and now we can officially celebrate her as a Canadian author. There’s no particular reason I’m starting with her in this new segment, I just am. I discovered Michelle quite by accident as I heard of [...]

If you’ve been following my blog and subscribed to my newsletter, you would know that I have been allowing other authors to take over my blog each month to share their stories. Reflecting on this, and the time it was taking to seek out such authors and encourage others to visit, I realized I needed [...]

A revived segment of my blog is The Author Takeover, where an invited guest is asked to contribute a blog to my site. This allows my readers to connect with more authors and celebrate the world of literary in a different way. Today, welcome Canadian author Francene Gillis as she talks about her love of reading, recovering [...]

A revived segment of my blog is The Author Takeover, where an invited guest is asked to contribute a blog to my site. This allows my readers to connect with more authors and celebrate the world of literary in a different way. Today, welcome Canadian author Ivanka Fear as she talks about her love of Scholastic book [...]

A revived segment of my blog is The Author Takeover, where an invited guest is asked to contribute a blog to my site. This allows my readers to connect with more authors and celebrate the world of literary in a different way. Today, welcome Phyllis Entis as she talks about her love of Carmel-by-Sea, Pen to Paper [...]

Day two of my journaling through Chelene Knight’s Safekeeping: A Writer’s Guided Journal for Launching a Book With Love. Yes, there were many other insightful questions and activities to do since my first post, and I will definitely be exploring those avenues, maybe even here at a later time, but this one spoke to me, [...]

I know, I know, I tried this before with Pam Grout’s E-Squared and admittedly didn’t complete it, but I wanted to try it again with Safekeeping: A Writer’s Guided Journal for Launching a Book with Love by Chelene Knight. I also promise to complete E-Squared when I can. As I am reading this to review [...]

A revived segment of my blog is The Author Takeover, where an invited guest is asked to contribute a blog to my site. This allows my readers to connect with more authors and celebrate the world of literary in a different way. Today, welcome (Shayam) Korey Steckle, a recent guest of OC Publishing, as he talks [...]