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she/they, new books at https://doublejoybooks.com read more about my new books - go to https://books2read.com/paulaj and click on any cover image :) I wrote a book on earthquakes - during an earthquake!

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · Mar 10

My books, where to find them, how to support me

my new books books2read.com/paulaj
my backlist paulajohanson.blogspot.com
my friend Celu Amberstone's books books2read.com/amberstone

Buy my books & review them on the vendor's website
Ask a public library to get my books, then take 'em out
Thanks!

Find books by Paula Johanson at your favorite digital store!

Books by Paula Johanson

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 21h

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. - Bryan Stevenson

Pic of the day

#photography

Loutro Beach on the island of Crete. A small boat with a man in it hovers on top of turquoise water. In the distance, brilliant white stores and homes line the cove. There are no roads to get here. Boat is everything.

#greece
#travel
#sea
#holiday
#crete

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 16h

This webinar for writers is one of a series sponsored by @sfcanadawriters.bsky.social & @canadianauthors.bsky.social at no charge, just as if you were already a member.
Scroll down to see recordings of past webinars, too.
canadianauthors.org/national/pro...

Webinar Schedule | Canadian Authors Association

Ready to ramp up your writing career? Explore our webinars to discover tips and lessons on writing and related topics that can help you become an even better writer.

canadianauthors.org

Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 16h

There's still room to sign up for Susan Forest's FREE webinar!
Her topic is Book Bones. She'll lead us thru structures for novel skeletons.
(not spooky skeletons!)
Wednesday Oct 15 at 7pm Eastern time
Here's the link. Scroll down and register!
canadianauthors.org/national/pro...

Webinar Schedule | Canadian Authors Association

Ready to ramp up your writing career? Explore our webinars to discover tips and lessons on writing and related topics that can help you become an even better writer.

canadianauthors.org

Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 17h

Yup!
I've learned the answer that doctors & dentists are trying to get when asking for a description of my pain is not "I also have migraines! My scale is not a civilian's. I might say WATERMELON, or stare out the window."

(tooth pain is better, still working on abdominal pain)

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 17h

My favourite scene in the entire oeuvre of Canadian author Gail Bowen is her protagonist listening to a fellow professor say the first nice day in May he sets up a hammock & reads Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. On a good year, he gets past the first chapter.

Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 17h

I swear, even Kant's proofreader probably took breaks every ten pages.

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 17h

Friends give me little balls of yarn left at the end of a big project.
I knit baby booties & little dolls or animals, give them away. They've been as far as Germany, traveling with artists & scientists. And in my book Science Critters!
books2read.com/sciencecritters

Trending on Smashwords and other online vendors
Science Critters: knit and crochet your own weird & wonderful creatures
by Paula Johanson
books2read.com/sciencecritters

Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 17h

I don't wanna hear any more rumours about Fidel Castro being Justin's secret unacknowledged bio-dad.

Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 1d

OH JUSTIN TRUDEAU NO no oh no no no

My dude. No.

Oh no.

Oh god no.

What are you doing.

Oh, the cringy face I'm making.

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 23h

Before making duck with chanterelles for our Thanksgiving dinner, I am spending time with the proofs of my forthcoming book: thornapplepress.ca/books/the-ar...
I love the page design! I love the cover! So much to be thankful for...

computer screen showing most of a page of text

a book cover featuring a detail from a portrait

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 21h

A moth that looks like a spider! With aquatic caterpillars! ISN'T NATURE WONDERFUL!!

Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 1d

For #Arachtober, here is a spider that's not a spider. It's Petrophila jaliscalis, a jumping-spider-mimicking moth - see the face-on spider pattern, with orange legs and sparkly dark eyes? I love finding these - I think they breed in my small goldfish pond, because the caterpillars are aquatic. 🌿🐙

A macro photo of a moth, seen from the side, on brown bark. The moth has white wings with lots of dark speckles, and a pattern of four orange vertical stripes, plus a row of dark spots above, with reflective scales in the centers. The effect creates a pattern that looks like a jumping spider seen face-on; the orange stripes mimic legs, and the dark spots mimic a jumping spider's row of large eyes.

Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty much!

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Scott Overton @sftruenorth.bsky.social · 1d

Join Canadian Authors and SF Canada for another FREE webinar this Wednesday October 15 at 7pm Eastern. Susan Forest presents "Book Bones" the structure of stories, including novel skeletons like the three-act structure, the Hero's Journey and more. Register here: canadianauthors.org/national/pro...

Webinar Schedule | Canadian Authors Association

Ready to ramp up your writing career? Explore our webinars to discover tips and lessons on writing and related topics that can help you become an even better writer.

canadianauthors.org

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 1d

Ick.
A real artificial intelligence would be something worthy of study. Whatever ChatGPT is aint intelligence.

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🍂k a r e n @andthenisleep.bsky.social · 2d

— Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 2d

Glad to see Celu Amberstone's collection Refugees And Other Stories is trending in the top 5% of Native American & Aboriginal fiction at Kobo's Spooky Stories Sale!
www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
There are aliens, ghosts, a dragon and a troll in these stories ... and more!

Now in Kobo's Spooky Stories Sale!
Refugees And Other Stories
by Celu Amberstone
books2read.com/refugees

Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 2d

Susan's Book Bones webinar is live on Wednesday Oct 15! Register now for your space to attend.
Scroll down at this link: canadianauthors.org/national/programs-and-services/webinars/

Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 2d

Literature students! Ask your professors what Indigenous writers are on the reading list. Then give them Refugees And Other Stories by Celu Amberstone.
Ebook is 99cents for the rest of the month on over a dozen online vendors at books2read.com/refugees
Ask for the paperback at your library!

Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 2d

Ooo nice to see sales of my books this week!
Find all my new books from Doublejoy Books at your favourite online vendors, or ask for them at your local bookstore & library at books2read.com/paulaj

Now in Kobo's Spooky Stories Sale!
Small Rain And Other Nightmares
by Paula Johanson
books2read.com/smallrain

Trending on Smashwords in History!
King Kwong: Larry Kwong, the China Clipper who broke the NHL colour barrier
Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Child of Nature
Charles Tupper: Warhorse
by Paula Johanson
find them all at books2read.com/paulaj

Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 2d

It's nice to have an appropriate book to promote at 99cents during Bat Appreciation Month.
I've been asked to do a live reading online of Bat Poop Sparkles, & record it. Apparently spinning in my office chair while saying "Pew! Pew! Pew!" adds appeal to the page on penguins.
books2read.com/batpoop

Photo shows a bat hanging upside down from a gutter.
It's Bat Appreciation Month!
Bat Poop Sparkles
by Paula Johanson
books2read.com/batpoop

Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 2d

Can't tell who buys my bio of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Could be #Canadian #history buffs or maybe canoe fans.
Yes, Trudeau #paddled more miles in a #canoe than ANY other Canadian prime minister; probably more than ALL the rest put together even including his son Justin.
books2read.com/trudeau

picture shows a red maple leaf, book cover and words saying:
you DID know he paddled canoes, right?
Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Child of Nature
by Paula Johanson
books2read.com/trudeau

Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 2d

I recommend Dweller on the Threshold, in ebook or audiobook.
Nothing bad happens to the cats.

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 2d

I'm still a fan of Ticket to Ride, both the board game and the computer version.

Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 2d

I remember the march to exorcise the Pentagon!
Okay, I was 6 and saw news reports.

Misandrosaurus Hex @bexone.bsky.social · 2d

I swear to god Gen Z/Alpha/what the fuck ever’s unholy terror of ever being “cringe” is gonna be the thing that actually ends us

I will give white boomers one thing and one thing only: they showed up and they fucking exorcised the Pentagon live and on air to try and end Vietnam

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 3d

After being diagnosed with "stress" and "eating Xmas ornaments causes red-dyed vomit" Yuri also was booked for a dental the end of this month, so feel free to share my book links with your friends, family, exes, neighbours, and that creepy woman around the corner who keeps insisting she needs hugs.

Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · Aug 14

I have had nearly $2000 in vet bills in the past month with more coming in the next week.

Feel free to buy books. Any books. All of the books.

You can also buy direct from me: payhip.com/kristadball

You can also support my patreon: www.patreon.com/c/kristadb1

Thread of books below.

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! Buy Skyla's interesting books at www.skyladawncameron.com.
Her cat IS very expensive, as Krista says (and her own cat had an expensive vet bill for stress, so she knows)

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