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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Sep 30

Local authors' event at Okanagan Regional Library Salmon Arm branch on Friday evening October 3. Come meet some authors, buy some books, get some books signed, celebrate literacy in our community

Notice of Local Author Book Fair on Oct 3 Fri at ORL Salmon Arm featuring a graphic of book spines

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Jul 1

Now is your best chance to find my books available for half price at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find my books and many more at www.smashwords.com/shelves/prom... all month! #SWSale2025 #Smashwords #IReadCanadian #CanadianAuthor #BCAuthor

Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Jul 1

#HappyCanadaDay
Let's celebrate the day with 16 #Canadian short stories!
#SorryNotSorry anthology
#IReadCanada #CanadianAuthors #shortstories including some #hockeystories #CanadianValues
Books2Read.com/SorryNotSorry

Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Jun 30

#HappyCanadaDay! Here's a great anthology of stories to celebrate #Canada from 16 great Canadian authors.
#IReadCanadian #CanadianAuthor #Booksky
#SORRYNOTSORRY
Books2Read.com/SorryNotSorry

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Jun 17

Wow! What a great review!
www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
#OttawaReviewofBooks #IReadCanadian
#shortstories #Canadianauthors
#SorryNotSorryAnthology

Sorry, Not Sorry edited by Shawn Bird

Reviewed by Robert RuntéIf you are an Alberta separatist, a truck convoy supporter, or Fox News enthusiast, this anthology is probably not for you. For everybody else, this is a pretty great collectio...

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Jun 9

The #SorryNotSorry anthology of Canadian stories is looking absolutely fantastic. Releases on Canada Day. Pre-orders coming soon. #amreadingshortstories #amreadingCanadian #IReadCanadian #amreading #CanadianAuthors #CanadianBooks

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · May 31

#amediting
again.
I feel like I've been editing for days, weeks, months.
Ah. Perhaps
Because I have been!
But it's the last 50 pages! There's light at the end of the tunnel.
#amwriting #IReadCanadian This is the #collaborativenovel workshopped at #WhenWordsCollide2024 #LintusenPress

Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · May 24

So what's the real beef with Harvard, do you think?
Did they refuse him admission or something?

Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · May 16

Happy International Fluevog Day! #IFD2025 I used up a store credit on these graphite (dark grey) Lili. Fingers crossed they fit well and look as great as I think they should! #FluevogShoes Did you celebrate today? What new shoe joined your household?

Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · May 12

We're counting down the days until @wordonthelake.bsky.social Writers Conference at #SalmonArmBC #ShuswapLake May 16-18 2025. Check out WordontheLakeWritersFestival.com for all the details and when you can register last minute on site next weekend! #amwriting
#BCWriters #WordontheLake

Word on Lake Writers Festival – a festival for all writers and readers

WordontheLakeWritersFestival.com

Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · May 3

It's the first weekend of the month so I'm playing with #FuriousFiction prompts from Australian Writers' Centre. I've got a vote in there and something silk, and I've used angry and circle. Now to find a natural place for strike... 250 of 500 words. There's room! ;-) #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Apr 30

Just over 2 weeks left on the Lintusen Press #submissioncall for #shortstories from #Canadianauthors for their upcoming Sorry Not Sorry anthology. See the details at lintusenpress.ca/submissions
#writingcommunity, #amwriting #BCauthors #CanLit

Current submission calls:

SORRY NOT SORRY ANTHOLOGY SHORT STORY CALL: Lintusen Press is looking for a variety of short stories celebrating Canada. THE BRIEF: Canadian authors are invited to contribute a story that is set in…

LintusenPress.ca

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Apr 29

Who's coming to #SalmonArmBC on gorgeous Shuswap Lake for @wordonthelake.bsky.social? Such an awesome, intimate festival where you dine with the presenters and network with other writers. Register now!
#amwriting #BCwriters #writingconference #ShuswapArts #writingcommunity SEE YOU THERE!

Word on the Lake @wordonthelake.bsky.social · Apr 26

May is our festival May 16-18. If you are unable to do the whole weekend, you can just attend a day, or the Friday night’s Café Lit or the Saturday evening Banquet. Tickets to the evening events are limited so waste no time to get yours at wordonthelakewritersfestival.com

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Word on the Lake @wordonthelake.bsky.social · Apr 18

Hurry, Hurry! No time to lose!
Early bird rates for the Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival end on April 20! And the final day to register is April 27.
www.wordonthelakewritersfestival.com

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Apr 20

Link to #WordontheLakeWritersFestival website: wordonthelakewritersfestival.com

Word on Lake Writers Festival – a festival for all writers and readers

wordonthelakewritersfestival.com

Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Apr 20

#Writers! Heads' up! April 20 Early Bird Reg for #WordontheLakeWritersFestival closes! This lovely intimate festival May 16-18 2025 in beautiful #SalmonArmBC is a highlight of my literary year. You should come! Great presenters food & entertainment
#amwriting #CanadianAuthors #BCWriters #ShuswapBC

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Apr 17

Happy #BCBookDay!
I recommend picking up a book by BC publisher LintusenPress.ca like #PlatypusTales a quartet of quirky stories from 4 BC authors! #canadianauthor #IReadCanadian #BCBooks

Lintusen Press

a collaborative micropress

LintusenPress.ca

Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Apr 10

Hey! KOBO Sale on #MurderingMrEdwards a darkly humorous novella where the English teacher is murdered by a different staff member in every chapter that Diana Gabaldon said is "Clever, funny, and totally engaging!" www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Murdering Mr. Edwards ebook by Shawn L. Bird - Rakuten Kobo

Read "Murdering Mr. Edwards" by Shawn L. Bird available from Rakuten Kobo. One obnoxious English teacher. Twelve Tales of his death. Norton Edwards, English department head, is the reigning despo...

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Apr 8

I've been reading #DianaGabaldon 's A Breath of Snow and Ashes. Here's a quote about bad leadership (referring to Hodgepole)

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Apr 3

I've been reading through #DianaGabaldon 's A Breath of Snow & Ashes ( #Outlander Book 6) set just before the American revolution, and finding all sorts of parallels with our times. #literature #IAmReadingHistoricalFiction #WhatGoesAroundComesAround

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Mar 23

Looks like the federal Director of Public Prosecution should be laying treason charges against a sitting premier without delay and that premier should be removed from office immediately.
laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-4...

Criminal Code

Federal laws of Canada

laws-lois.justice.gc.ca

Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Mar 15

www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...

What a wonderful review of a fantastic project.
#HeavenstoMurgatroyd #IReadCanadian #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #LintusenPress

Heavens to Murgatroyd edited by Shawn Bird

Reviewed by Robert RuntéLintusen Press is a small collaborative, Canadian publisher, best known for “Murdering Mr. Edwards,” wherein various classroom teachers each separately plot the death of the ob...

www.ottawareviewofbooks.com

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Mar 11

Pre-orders are available now.
A launch on Saturday, Mar 15, 2025 for this project to benefit a talented Ontario poet.
#HeavensToMurgatroyd
#IReadCanadian #shortstories #poetry #CanadianReads #WriterCommunity

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Mar 1

Smashwords is having a huge ebook sale!
Check out all the Lintusen Press books at 50% off! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

#smashwords #ebookweek25

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Shawn L. Bird @shawnlbird.bsky.social · Mar 1

Smashwords is having a huge ebook sale!
Check out all the Lintusen Press books at 50% off! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

#smashwords #ebookweek25

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