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Leila Ashley Goreil Macdonald EDITORS Co-Founder Co-Founder Editor Editor Leila Goreil Ashley Macdonald CONTRIBUTORS Chantel Kelly Bittersweet Good-byes Taking Some Time Jordanna Lageer SPECIAL THANKS TO Redbubble 1 Manuscript has been an awesome creative project for Wow, it’s been a crazy few months. me and I have been so humbled by this experience. Check out this independent-artist Back in June 2018, Leila came to me with this exciting Town of Collingwood Having had the chance to interact with many readers based site that provides online new idea of creating our own magazine. I had little to no Book Outlet Canada and authors during our short time has validated that shopping to a myriad of interests. hesitancy because Leila had already done quite a bit of Ellen Hopkins books and reading are still popular and very much Search ‘Books’ and be amazed at 2 research on what it would take and had a startup plan Karen Elizabeth Hann enjoyed. the clothes, stickers, accessories and For those who love stationary and for us to follow with tons of ideas. Great! Julie McElwain more that is bookish and unique. pencils, check out these various The book DIY (page 11) was a great project that I loved COVER IMAGE Shop here. pencil styles. Shop here. doing and I’m sure you would too! It only took me 20 We’ve had a ton of support and excitement flowing in minutes to complete and still hangs on my wall. from friends, family, colleagues, and everyone we’ve Ellen Hopkins reached out to. We could do this and we would have a Julie McElwain is an amazing author and her books are great time doing it! No part of this publication may transporting - literally! You won’t be disappointed in be reproduced, shared, stored or picking up a copy of her In Time series. However, life is a cruel mistress and dealt us some transmitted by any means without curveballs. We want to provide our readers with our best written permission from the editor(s). This second and culminating issue for Manuscript work but between work, family and life in general, it’s Magazine of 2019 was a bittersweet creation for both been very hectic, stressful, and very humbling. © 2019 MANUSCRIPT Magazine Ashley and myself. Just as books give us plot twists, so does real life. Unfortunately, Ashley and I will be putting This is a very bittersweet issue for Leila and I as we take Please email our editor(s) or reach a pin into this creative project for the next little while, as some time away to get ourselves sorted. Please keep in out to us via the following social we navigate work, family and more. mind that we won’t be gone forever and we will be back media channels below. 3 and better than ever! I want to thank each and every one of you both writers, We’d love to hear from you. Personalize your books with stamps readers and everyone along the way, who have been Thank you so, so much to everyone who helped us and embossing kits. Shop here. supportive of Manuscript and me. bring this creative project to light and for all of your support throughout our journey. I’m not putting the book back on the shelf, just using a Our story is not yet finished; we’re just saving our spot bookmark for the next while. 4 with a bookmark. With love, ust in time for Spring and the good With love, weather, these bookish kicks will Leila show off your love of reading while Ashley keeping you stylish. Shop here.

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Audible is myself, have partaken in buying a order to understand. feel like life or death situations to place to find used books for cheap a great place to stream couple of boxes full of wonderful When is comes to shipping, it seems bookworms. prices. Who knows, you may even audiobooks or you can bookish goodies. To check the mail that Canada frequently gets the All in all, I love subscription boxes discover a new part of town on your download the Libby app and find your book box waiting for short end of the stick and it really is but sometimes I wonder if they’re Where can I read when I don’t have drive. and rent from your local library. you is exhilarating. unfortunate. worth all the money. any space? How can I get books on a low budget? 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in public, and sometimes in private. willing to admit — reluctantly — that McElwain: It’s nonstop. I read In Time: An Interview with Julie McElwain Because I think that may be jarring she’s in love with him. That doesn’t ton of books, blogs, and articles on Her Epic Series to readers as well, I’ve softened mean she’s ready to marry him, and on that era. I have the book, 1811 some of those rules in private that causes friction with Alec. Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, but By Leila Goreil conversations. One theme that continues to be now I usually turn to Louise Allen’s MANUSCRIPT: How did the idea Donovan, is unique and painful. Her The second obstacle that comes explored is how Kendra’s desire for Regency Slang Revealed, which for the A Murder in Time series parents abandoned her when she up is a woman in Kendra’s position independence clashes with Alec and organizes the 1811 dictionary in a come to you? was quite young, and she’s always wouldn’t be running about society the Duke’s sincere desire to protect much more practical and easy way felt like an outsider. She became alone. She’s finding ways around her. Kendra has the skills to protect to read. Both dictionaries help me McElwain: I had the idea rolling closed off in terms of personal that, but I spend a great amount herself more than most women, but with words that were used in that around in my brain for about relationships — which she doesn’t of time thinking how to get Kendra Alec and the Duke worry about her. era. One of the most surprising 10 years before I did anything. I trust — and focused on her career. from Point A to Point B in a way that It’s a tricky line. When does trying things that I found is how many love time travel stories and I love She is brilliant and self-sufficient. Yet is realistic both for that era and for to protect someone cross the line slang words we use today that were mysteries. I thought it would be being tossed back into the Regency Kendra’s more modern mindset. into trying to control someone? A used back then. the Duke, Rebecca, Sam… everyone really fun to combine the two, but era has changed everything. In the mom who insists their five-year-old The hardest part of research is around her are changing in small There are probably more obstacles, the historical research was very twenty-first century, she doesn’t hold their hand while crossing the spending hours reading from various ways because of their contact with but those are the two that come daunting so I put aside the idea, really need anybody. But in the street is controlling their child, but sources, finally making a decision her. I like the idea of people coming instantly to mind! and wrote two other mysteries that early nineteenth century, she finds their motivation comes from love to include that bit of information in from two very different viewpoints, ended up in my drawer. herself in the unusual position of MANUSCRIPT: Did you know that and a desire to protect their child. Of your own writing, and then coming essentially two different cultures, During that time, I gave an old TV needing other people to survive. A Murder in Time would become a course, Kendra would argue — and across a new source that disputes who learn to accept each other, find that I had from college to the son That forces her to open up, establish series? does argue — women should not your previous sources! Who do common ground, and grow because of a friend of mine. Just to give you relationships, learn to trust. She’s be treated like children. I think both you believe? The sources you’ve of it. an idea how old the TV was, it had also recognizing how intelligent McElwain: I have always envisioned sides have come to understand the spent the last three days reading, no remote control — you actually these people are. There is a natural As far as obstacles in writing it as a series, but a traditionally other’s point of view, but adjusting or do you go with the new source? had to turn the dial to change the arrogance to Kendra. She is a Kendra’s adventures, there are published author has so little control one’s behavior is another story, and I want to be as historically accurate channel! I managed to jerry-rig it so super-intelligent person in her own two. As an American, I have a very over whether that will be a reality. If we will see that battle continue in as possible, but sometimes it’s a my friend’s son, Dylan, could play right, but she’s from the twenty-first difficult time understanding the A Murder in Time hadn’t done well, it Caught in Time. judgement call. Peerage of England, and its use of would have ended there. Thankfully, his videogames. One night I was at century. She has knowledge that I also try to think of everything, titles. I had no clue how hard this there’s been enough interest by MANUSCRIPT: Do you have a their house for a party, and Dylan these people do not. On the other which, of course, is impossible. would be until I started writing this readers to keep it going! favourite character in this story and his friend, Sam — both super- hand, she doesn’t “understand old As I’m writing, I am always going series! I rely on the book, Titles And that you especially enjoy writing smart — came running for help technology.” That levels the playing MANUSCRIPT: You just published online to research when things Forms Of Address — A Guide To about? because the TV had gone wonky. I field. Caught in Time. Tell us about the were invented and the etymology Correct Use. But it’s still a constant checked it out, turned the dial and Kendra will always have frustrations evolution of the characters. McElwain: I have to say that I really of words. I’m constantly surprised headache, and I often lament that — voila! — the videogame returned. with this time period, where women enjoyed writing Dr. Poole in Caught and endlessly fascinated by what I didn’t send Kendra back to 1815 These amazingly intelligent boys really are second-class citizens. McElwain: In Caught in Time, in Time. He is such a curmudgeon. I find out. And as careful as I try to somewhere in America! On top of looked at me, shook their heads, She may never fit in — but she Kendra has been in the nineteenth He annoyed the heck out of Kendra be, there will always be things that I that, the way people addressed and said, “We don’t understand this never fit in the twenty-first century, century for several months now. because he refused to budge on miss. each other during this time was very old technology.” either. However, she is softening in While she continues to be frustrated how he thought women should formal. It seems archaic to me that Aside from making me laugh, the ways that she would never have if by the limits put on women in this behave, and tended to be so MANUSCRIPT: Betrayal in Time even a commoner addressed his experience started me thinking: she were in her own time period. era, she’s adapting. Her relationship grumpy. I probably would be just as is the fourth book in this series, wife or her husband as Mrs. And Mr. What would happen if a super- Also, when she first arrived in 1815, with Alec has deepened, and she is annoyed if I met someone like that coming out in 2019. Can you tell smart, modern day woman was Kendra was very in real life, but in us something about this novel? suddenly thrust back in time? The afraid of doing fiction, writing McElwain: Bow Street Runner Sam idea sort of grew from there. something to him, he made Kelly is called upon to investigate change history, me smile. the grisly murder of Sir Giles MANUSCRIPT: You have written which could such a unique plot. Explain how MANUSCRIPT: Holbrooke. The victim was found change the naked in a church, garroted, with the plot develops over the series future. But as The historic and any obstacles that you came details of your his tongue cut out. Even more time goes on, perplexing, symbols that resemble upon while writing? she may become story are so rich. What was/ crosses mysteriously appear on the McElwain: Besides the murder less sensitive to dead man’s flesh during autopsy. that possibility. is the research investigation in each book, it’s really process like Sam immediately turns to Kendra about relationships. The background Kendra isn’t for you while Donovan to help him solve the of my main protagonist, Kendra alone in her writing? crime. This will bring Kendra back evolution. Alec, to London, and reunite her with Page 8 Page 9 MANUSCRIPT www.ManuscriptMag.com a few characters in past books. I Time, she’s learned to dance, so she think readers will also see Kendra can no longer stay on the sidelines continue to evolve, where she during balls. And interacting more Book Dahlia DIY becomes more involved in life. She’s with the Beau Monde has some Courtesy of: A Wonderful Thought Blog been an observer, standoffish, afraid surprising results. to participate outside crime-solving for fear it might affect the future, but MANUSCRIPT: By trade, you’re By Leila Goreil she’s slowing becoming a citizen also a journalist. Does that help or When I was looking at Pinterest for at a yard sale, but never read and of this new world that she’s found hinder you in your creative fiction easy paper or book-inspired DIY turned it into this artful masterpiece. 1 herself in. writing? (do-it-yourself) projects, I wanted (see left) MANUSCRIPT: You’ve written McElwain: Overall, I think it helps. something simple, inexpensive and The thing that I love most about such a successful story. What As a journalist, you are trained to could be easily incorporated into my this particular DIY is that you can helps you to keep writing more? organize your thoughts and words home interior aesthetic. use craft paper, wrapping paper, Why not just one book for in a concise way to tell readers a After a deep spiral of searching, I tissue paper, books and more and Kendra’s adventure? story. It’s not necessarily easy, but you know how to do it. Also, I’d came across A Wonderful Thought’s can create these in a variety of sizes McElwain: I couldn’t imagine say the editing process is familiar pin for this beautiful and totally and even mount them on different anyone from today being tossed to me. I don’t know for sure, but I customizable paper dahlia. surfaces to create seasonal and back into a previous century, and would imagine writers who haven’t custom designs. I read through and followed the readily accepting it. So, for me, that been forced to whittle their words easy, step-by-step directions and If you decide to take on this requires a longer process. Like any down to fit an allotted space in a produced this beautiful dahlia DIY, tag us in your photo with book series, I wanted to explore newspaper or magazine might have 2 that now hangs on a wall in my #manuscriptmagDIY on social Kendra’s life as it unfolds, and see more trouble “killing their darlings,” apartment hallway. I made mine media. We’d love to see your work! how her relationships develop and as they say. And finally, I’m quite using an old copy of a Charles how she may be changed by them, familiar with writing on deadline, Dickens novel that I had purchased Here are the easy steps to make and how she may change those which requires a certain amount your own paper (book page) dahlia. around her. Those changes can be of discipline. Writing itself requires little or they can be profound, and it discipline. I know a lot of people You’re Going to Need... seemed best done in a series. who talk about writing, but never 5 find the discipline to actually write. 1 Paper or a book with pages MANUSCRIPT: What’s one thing measuring 4” x 4” square you want readers to take away 2 Hot glue gun or tape from your A Murder in Time series? 3 Piece of cardboard 3 4 Scissors or paper cutter McElwain: What makes a home? Kendra doesn’t really belong in 5 6” piece of ribbon or string the early nineteenth century. She’s a modern woman. But in the Steps... Leila Goreil Image credit: twenty-first century, her family is nonexistent, and she is too caught 1 Cut your piece of cardboard into a circle - this is going to help gauge up in her career to have any true the size of your dahlia friends. As uncomfortable as the 2 Adhere your string or ribbon to the back of the cardboard Regency era is for her, she has fallen in love, and is developing 3 Cut your paper / book pages into 4”x 4” squares and you will also need relationships that she never had some cut into 3” x 3” squares before. So what makes a home — 4 Form your squares into cones using hot glue or tape to hold them in 4 our environment or the people in place that environment? 5 Begin to glue or tape down your cones around the outside of the MANUSCRIPT: What can readers cardboard. This first layer determines how wide your dahlia will be. Tip: expect for Betrayal in Time? Measure the space you intend to hang your dahlia from to avoid errors Please give us a hint! 6 Work your way around the circle, filling in with cones McElwain: As I mentioned, Kendra 7 As you work towards the centre, begin using the 3”x 3” squares to has another grisly murder to solve, create depth for the dahlia but in the months since Caught in 8 Hang or mount your dahlia (whichever you decide) Page 10 Volume 01 | Issue 02 Volume 01 | Issue 02 Page 11 www.ManuscriptMag.com Opinions of a Bookworm

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As I write this opener, I am currently in how I read her book. It made it was an adult, and even then it was O sitting in my car, waiting for the easier to identify with everything rather begrudgingly tolerated. But T reception of my friend’s wedding she wrote. To make myself sound these words that would get me in celebration to start. I’m alone, super creepy, I just feel like it’s trouble as a teen are now a coping MOVEI S looking slightly odd sitting in a pretty easier to relate to someone that I mechanism for me as an adult. If I’m dress, reading a book with the title stand a decent chance at meeting feeling stressed out, anxious, and/ of Nobody Cares, but whatever. It’s someday. (As much as I love Chris or crowded, swearing is the easiest taken me a few weeks to read this Evans (my future hubs) and Gal and fastest help for me. And that’s April 2 April 30 book, but it was because I identify Gadot (my future BFF), the chances okay. Because as long as I am being with everything the author wrote, of my meeting them are miniscule). respectful of those around me, I can After NOS4A2 (pron. Nosferatu) and I didn’t want to miss a thing. But the girl is local. Ish. And we do what I need to do to make myself Anna Todd (suspense/horror novel adapted by AMC) This book was eye opening to me. I have lots of stuff in common. She feel better in that moment. So even Joe Hill have never identified with anyone so finally taught me that despite what if I’m saying things under my breath much in my life (Sorry to my family other people say, it is okay for me to or just in my own head, it is a help to and friends, but this woman is my swear; to say the words that most me. I’ll answer for my choices when spirit animal, I’m confident in this good Christian people won’t say out I’m dead. fact). loud. Sorry Anne, if that wasn’t your April 5 May 10 intention with this book, but that’s So thank you Anne, for giving me My love affair started with a trip to some of what I got out of it. permission to say whatever I damn The Best of Enemies The Rosie Project the public library. I had some movies well want. The rest of the world just to return, new ones to pick up (hello And that is important to me. I have needs to fucking deal with it. (Sorry Osha Gray Davidson Graeme Simsion Harry Potter marathon), and was ADHD, Anxiety, and Depression mom and aunties.) I am who I am, waiting in line to check out. The tendencies. I just recently went on and I will not apologize to the world public library in Collingwood has medication to help out with the at large for what I need to do to started a program called, “blind date later two deals. Side note: Anxiety keep myself sane and as happy as I Pet Sematary with a book”. They wrap a book in and Depression tendencies are life can be. I need to take care of myself May 17 plain brown paper, cutting out only cards I’ve been dealt, not problems before I am able to help others Stephen King the area where the bar code is. I or issues. My true issues in life are around me. I guess my question for The Sun is Also a Star tend to be a little picky about the being addicted to shoes and coffee all of you readers is this; whatever books I read because I have to be and often not having the money your doing, are you being authentic Nicola Yoon in the right mood for different types. to pay for either. Back to recently to yourself and your belief system? So this was a bit of a risk for me. deciding to go on medications; It’s Because I finally know that I am. April 21 But low and behold, God used the been about three months (as of program to help me out. (Now this is the beginning of March) of being The Impossible: The Miraculous Story A Dog’s Way Home where I lay down a little disclaimer: on the meds, and I’m still figuring of a Mother’s Faith and Her Child’s (A Dog’s Purpose 2) I am a Christian. I was raised in a out how I feel about it. While the Resurrection (Breakthrough) Christian home, I go to church pretty medication is helping me get back W. Bruce Cameron much every Sunday, I teach Sunday to who I am, there are still days Joyce Smith school, and I have a personal where my anxiety gets the better relationship with Jesus. This will of me. But one thing I definitely Order your copy become useful info in a little bit.) struggle with is the fact that when of Nobody Cares here April 26 Enter in the book of Nobody Cares I’m having a bad day, swearing . by Anne T. Donohue. helps me cope. Now I know that this may sound odd to most people, The Aftermath She is an author from Cambridge, but in a Christian home swear Rhidian Brook Ontario. It’s a city not too terribly words were forbidden while I was far away from where I live. Figuring growing up. Like, none at all, until I this out made a huge difference Volume 01 | Issue 02 Volume 01 | Issue 02 Page 13 Page 14 Feature Interview www.ManuscriptMag.com INTERVIEW: Ellen Hopkins I read or hear in the news. Some more. When I travel, I try to write at at me. Okay, a few people gripe Opening up about writing and her next novel story, or even a statistic, that nails least an hour or two every day. This sometimes, but that’s their problem. Credit: Ellen Hopkins my attention and makes me think it includes vacations, holidays, and would be the basis for a great book. weekends. Writing is my career, but MANUSCRIPT: What’s the worst Other times it might be something a it’s also my heart. Not writing makes part of being a writer? reader shares. My readers regularly me unhappy. Hopkins: Budgeting. The money tell me their stories, and while I don’t want to write their personal journeys, they just might inspire a character or plot thread.

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Hopkins: I do as much primary research as I can. This involves in-person, telephone or online interviews with people who have faced the issues I’m writing about. So, with Tricks, I spent time talking to teen prostitutes on the street, and by email. Then I do a lot of secondary research—with experts, MANUSCRIPT: What is your on websites, through magazine or writing process? I earn comes in once every six newspaper articles and books, etc. months, so I have to make sure Hopkins: It may interest you to I don’t spend too much today to MANUSCRIPT: How much time do know that I don’t write drafts. make paying my bills next month you spend writing every day? Because each poem flows so impossible. And I’m sooooooo not a specifically into the next, each must math person! By Ashley Macdonald Hopkins: When I’m home and not be pretty much “right” before I move under deadline, at least six hours. MANUSCRIPT: What’s the best Not one to shy away from for adults and 14 New York Times Hopkins: The truth is, I started Under deadline, that could be much on. That means I may spend those controversy, Ellen Hopkins has Bestselling novels in-verse, Ellen Crank as a kind of personal journey, six hours creating just three pages, advice you’ve been given as a tackled addiction, teen pregnancy Hopkins dives into her writing to try and understand what had especially in the early part of the writer? and suicide in numerous best-selling process with us. Everything from just happened to six years of my book, when I’m just getting to know Hopkins: To write the stories that novels. researching her books to the best life… and what had happened to my characters and learning their scare you the most to write, and and worst things about being an my beautiful daughter, no longer so stories. I do, however, spend many never self-censor. Having started writing since she author, Hopkins divulges all. beautiful. I didn’t start it looking for hours in prewrite, creating those could put pen to paper, Hopkins’ publication, let alone expecting the characters. I get to know them MANUSCRIPT: When did you first published piece was a brilliant MANUSCRIPT: In what order do book to become the phenomenon it almost all in my head. Some writers know you wanted to be a writer? haiku at the young age of nine. you suggest readers read your has. But the story inside is universal. do elaborate charts, family trees, In high school, just about every books Addiction, of one kind or another, etc. Others outline plot. I do neither. Hopkins: Pretty much from the first creative writing contest she entered touches almost everyone. As I So, when I complete a book, I do time I realized the power of “story.” was hers for the taking. Hopkins: It really depends on if So I guess I was in high school when people prefer reading books that wrote, I understood the importance one read-through for glaring errors, of the story. Now that she’s clean, then send it off to my fabulous I decided that, though I did take a Several of her books are based on go together back to back or what. wide life detour that finally brought personal experiences, including The earlier books rely much more my daughter understands its editor, who I trust to tell me if importance, too. something isn’t working. me back to my dream of writing as her first novel, Crank, which was on form than the later ones, which a career in my thirties. Keep striving inspired by her daughter’s addiction have more dense text. But here’s a MANUSCRIPT: Crank, Glass, MANUSCRIPT: What’s the best for those dreams! They don’t always to methamphetamine. A few link that shows what goes with what, and Fallout are all based on your part of being a writer? come easily or right away. years after Crank was published, and the order they were written in. life but what inspired your other https://www.bookseriesinorder. Hopkins continued the story in her books? Hopkins: Everything! I get paid to MANUSCRIPT: Will you ever make subsequent novels, Glass, and com/ellen-hopkins/ do what I love. Is there anything your books into movies? finally, Fallout. Hopkins: I always say inspiration is better than that? I set my own MANUSCRIPT: What was the everywhere, you just have to reach hours, don’t answer to a boss, Hopkins: Movies aren’t really up to With 20 nonfiction titles, four novels inspiration for Crank? out and grab it. Often, it’s something and don’t have anyone griping me. A film company has to take an Page 16 Volume 01 | Issue 02 Volume 01 | Issue 02 Page 17 MANUSCRIPT www.ManuscriptMag.com

Book Review interest. That said, there is some interest, so it’s always possible! All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven MANUSCRIPT: What would you say to readers who are in similar By Ashley Macdonald positions as your characters? Lightning Round Hopkins: My best advice is that help I had All the Bright Places by and there is gain. Adventures and Favourite color? is available, and it’s always better Jennifer Niven recommended to me isolation. RED! by a friends and I was told that it’s to ask for help sooner rather than I think this is a book that should be later. Sometimes just talking about a a combination of two books, one of Biggest vice? which I also just recently read. The read by everyone, in order to help problem can open up a whole new people try to better understand Red wine first, is The Fault in Our Stars by realm of possibilities. Somewhere, mental illness. If you or anyone you there is a person who will care, so John Green and the other is Eleanor Pets? know is struggling with thoughts never feel all alone. & Park by Rainbow Rowell. I wasn’t quite sure what my friend meant of suicide or is a Suicide Survivor, Two German shepherds, one cat, please follow any of the links below. MANUSCRIPT: Is there another inside and outside fish but after having read All the Bright book in the works? If so, can you Places, I now understand. Get your copy of All the Bright give readers a hint? Favourite music? today. Jennifer Niven tackles the subject of Places Rock, grunge, some country, big Hopkins: There’s ALWAYS a book death in a very gritty, yet eloquent band in the works. Next up, to publish way. All the Bright Places starts Prevention in October 2019, is Sanctuary Favourite band? with Violet Markey on the edge of Highway. It’s a politically charged the bell tower at her high school Canadian Association for Suicide Pink Floyd YA that takes readers into a very “You are not alone. after surviving an accident that kills Prevention near future that could well become her sister, Eleanor. We also see Music when you write? IMAlive our future if we don’t step up and It is not your fault. Theodore Finch, who just recently None demand our country’s leaders return came out of his “Sleep”, on that The LifeLine Canada Foundation to true representation of We the Favourite TV show? Help is out there.” same tower and thinking about People. jumping. After talking them both out American Idol - Jennifer Niven of it, Theodore builds a friendship Support Favourite food? with Violet, albeit reluctantly on her part, by convincing her to work on To Write Love On Her Arms Fries (but I avoid them, or else . . .!!) a class project together. The story Canadian Association for Suicide takes off from there. The theme of Three words that best describe Prevention — Coping with Suicide death and the reluctance sounds you? Loss a bit like The Fault in Our Stars, Passionate, articulate, devoted. doesn’t it?

Coffee or tea? As the book develops, you see Coffee. Black. Three cups every secrets start to emerge, which morning. brought me back to Eleanor & Park. It’s clear that these two people want to be together but secrets and other obstacles stand in their way. I think Niven did a wonderful job in writing All the Bright Places and it’s no wonder that it’s been made into a movie. There’s so much character development and moments that leave you wondering what will happen next. It’s clear, even in her “Author’s Note”, that this book has been wanting to get out. There is pain and there is joy. There is loss Page 18 Volume 01 | Issue 02 Volume 01 | Issue 02 Page 19 MANUSCRIPT Book Outlet Annual Book Box Sale 2018 vs. 2019 By Ashley Macdonald If you’re a book lover in North Needless to say, most (if not all) of day, last year I went somewhat later America, you’ve probably heard of my book hauls come from Book in the afternoon and I was a little Book Outlet. If not, Book Outlet is a Outlet. disappointed. bookstore where you can buy books for discounted prices. They have On top of all the great titles and By the time I got there, it seemed brick and mortar stores in Thorold, rewards you can get with Book like all the good books had already Ontario as well as in Buffalo, New Outlet just by shopping with them been taken even though staff were York. If that doesn’t work for you, and being a member, they also host constantly refilling the tables. Not a great event once a year. only that but a lot of the books I they also have an online platform: Image credit: Book Outlet Canada book in better condition. Staff get a few more. Unfortunately, I was www.bookoutlet.ca or www. was finding were quite severely Every year, Book Outlet holds their continued to keep restocking the only able to find one audiobook in bookoutlet.com, depending in which damaged; i.e. ripped or absent Annual Book Box Sale for three days tables with more and more books the whole sale. My thought was that country you reside. covers, bent pages, water damaged, only during March Break. I’ve had etc. and in comparison, I would say they had already been all snatched Right off the bat, all their books are the absolute pleasure of attending that there were a lot more books up during the previous two days. If at least at a 25% lower price than for the last two years. When you get Although I filled a box last year, a lot this year than last, especially in the you’re going looking for audiobooks, if you walked into Indigo or Barnes there, you get a 18” x 10” box to fill of them I took only because I didn’t Young Adult section. I would recommend you don’t as and Noble. Plus, they have a few with as many books as you can. want the experience to feel like it you may be disappointed. Unlike in 2018, I actually lost track different options for online buyers, was a waste. After all, I’d spent two What’s the best part? The whole of time while at the sale and only Overall, I had a great time and I such as myself. All orders over $45 hours scouring tables and bins for box and everything in it only costs realized I’d been there for quite thoroughly enjoyed myself. When gets free shipping, otherwise, it’s a books. Presently, I’m planning to $35, taxes included! All additional some time when my feet started to I got home, I added up the retail flat rate of $5. donate quite a few of those books. books can be purchased at their hurt. value of everything I got and it was Another great perk is when you Scratch & Dent pricing of $3 for soft The decision for going this year just under $640! I’d say my $35 was This time, I filled my box and I’m sign up for an account, you can cover and $4 for hardcover. The only was to go earlier in the morning extremely well-spent. If you get the ecstatic to say that they’re all books immediately start earning points! stipulation is that the lid of the box and I found the experience a lot chance to attend the Book Box Sale I plan on reading (hopefully) this Every order you make, whether in must be able to close flat. more enjoyable. It was still fairly next year, I would highly recommend year. As of right now, I’ve already person or online, you earn points, busy when I arrived and it steadily it! This year, the Book Box Sale was read two of the books I got and it’s which you can redeem for additional got busier and busier the longer I held from Thursday, March 14th to been less than a month since the Follow Book Outlet Store on money off your bill. Not only that but stayed. Though I still found a lot of Saturday, March 16th and I marked sale! Facebook and Instagram to keep up Book Outlet also has a monthly quiz books that were damaged, similarly myself down to go on the 16th – to the year before, I was able to to date with latest news and other you can take which will award you On my commute to and from a lesson I learned from the year keep searching and find the same bookish events! 10 free points! before. With Saturday being the last work, I’ve been listening to more audiobooks and thought the Book Box Sale would be a great place to

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telling anyone about that. ideas… everything is I might one day publish a new and fresh and book of his journals. Shedding Light on Debut Author Karen Elizabeth Hann MANUSCRIPT: What do you want fun. Then when readers to take away from your the meat of it MANUSCRIPT: Is books? all must be there another book currently By Ashley Macdonald Hann: For religious readers, I want built upon the bones, it turns in the works for them to think about why and how the Sonatas of Debut author Karen Elizabeth Hann have sisters, but the dynamic is into a lot more they follow their faith leaders. I want Grace series? took some time to answer a few nothing like that between Mia and work. them to understand that what a Can you give questions for MANUSCRIPT readers Kate, and the family is very different faith leader says isn’t necessarily readers a hint? about her first book and what’s next. in general. But I was able to draw what God says, and I want them to on my own experiences and that of examine their long-held beliefs to MANUSCRIPT: Hann: As most MANUSCRIPT: As a newly my family in the way that everyone understand precisely why they hold For readers who sonatas are in four published author, what have been dealt with Mia’s mental illness. them. I want them to see that those are struggling with parts, there will be some of your greatest challenges? I chose the issue of HIV stigma we hold up as examples of faith being HIV positive or four Sonatas of Grace because it was something that was Hann: I didn’t do much research are human and fallible. I also want have thoughts of suicide, books altogether, featuring very strong when I was growing ahead of time, beyond how to get people to look at the sociopolitical what advice would you give them? the same cast of characters with your book up on the major retail up, and although it does seem to issues I bring up in my stories. a few new additions. The second platforms. I knew nothing about be easing as the AIDS pandemic Glory in the Flower deals with HIV Hann: Seek proper medical one is indeed in the works, and it marketing or how to get the word settles, there is still a great deal of stigma and mental illness, both of attention. Mental illness is a picks up mere days after Glory in out… I’m still learning that process. misinformation and prejudice. The which are highly controversial in the disease, just like any physical the Flower ends. Kate and Ollie I just put it out and somehow hoped advent of social media puts people’s church. I cannot count how many illness. There should be no shame are dealing with parenthood and that it would magically become lives in the spotlight, and I wanted to times a well-meaning Christian in seeking treatment. So far as HIV where to go next in their lives. Mia visible to the world. But it takes a examine how the notion of Internet friend or relative has told me that is concerned, I’m not a medical continues to navigate life with a little more than that. celebrity affects how they cope with if I had more faith I would not have professional, but as far as one’s serious mental illness. One thing unexpected crises. the mis-wired brain I have. For my daily life is concerned, my thoughts I like to do as a writer is toss my too intense. I never worked on MANUSCRIPT: Glory in the Flower non-religious readers, I’d like them are similar. Cast aside shame. An characters into a situation that that scene alone, not in any of my MANUSCRIPT: Impulses of Deeper is your first book. What was the to see a hopefully realistic look at illness is an illness. Having one seems absolutely impossible and revisions. Birth is a prequel to Glory in the writing process like for you? the world of faith and understand doesn’t make you dirty or bad. then watch as they struggle to come Flower, how did this come about? the complexities of obligation, love, People should not be prejudiced to terms, so we’re going to see Hann: For me, stories tend to come MANUSCRIPT: How did the story family, fear, hope, and belief that we against you for that. Of course, it’s a some heavy tragedy. out of a few ideas or images. I of Glory in the Flower come to be? Hann: The character of Peter Wentworth was, initially, supposed who live there must grapple. person’s responsibility to keep from get an image in my mind, people MANUSCRIPT: One thing your Hann: Since my teens, I’ve wanted to be minor, a little nod to two spreading an illness, but nobody or objects, and I start to build MANUSCRIPT: What’s your readers and fans should know to write something about power very dear friends of mine. There should be cast out from society or something around it. Who is that favourite part of the writing about you is… dynamics within the church and are some inside jokes with that family just because there is a virus person who would look like that how easily corruption can grow. So process? character that only a few people in their blood. And so far as I’m Hann: I am extremely political, and and be doing that? What might their that was at the back of my mind. will ever understand. I’d originally Hann: Coming up with the concerned, it’s nobody’s business that comes out in my work. I know lives be like? What brought them to I’d also had a few flashes of image planned Glory in the Flower to be a characters and the initial plot how that virus came to be there. I don’t write in a way that fits the that place? From there, it builds. As that stuck with me… a pair of lovers standalone. But as soon as it was conventional “Christian Fiction” I move along, I gather other ideas lying in a field; an elaborate pipe MANUSCRIPT: What do you do published, people started asking mold, and that is deliberate on my from what’s happening in the news organ; a beautiful woman with a when you’re not writing? me about sequels. So I had to part. The old paradigms are no or my own life, until I have enough malformed hand running through a think more about the characters. Hann: I’m a community organizer longer working. We have to explore layers and angles for a story worth darkened parking lot. As I examined It surprised me how many readers and activist. I run protest marches something new. telling. I often stop and start… work these images and wondered who resonated with the character of and work on community-based on something for a while, then set it those people could be and what Peter. I started thinking more about initiatives like gathering blankets for Get your digital copy of Impulses aside, then pick it up again. It’s the might happen around a pipe organ, him, who he was, and how his and those in need and raising money for of Deeper Birth and Glory in the joy of having ADHD. But the process the story began to build. I actually Ollie’s relationship had developed, self-defence classes for vulnerable Flowers on Amazon. works for me. worked on this book on and off as well as how they had developed women and girls. I also edit books for over ten years, as I was going MANUSCRIPT: What was the individually as human beings. for a local military history publishing through grad school, going through hardest scene for you to write in There is obviously a rich history of company. And I hang out with my my own crises of faith, and going Glory in the Flower? adventure with the two of them. cat a lot, because he’s awesome. through the process of being The actual incident around which His name is Severus Snape, and Hann: Mia’s suicide attempt. I diagnosed with BPD and learning Impulses of Deeper Birth is arranged he was an abused little stray. He’s actually had a friend remain with how to live with the condition. The may have some slight root in fact, now fat and sassy and endlessly me as I wrote it because it was book isn’t autobiographical... I do but that’s about as much as I’m displeased with his human-slave. 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