Catherine Little‘s (Toronto Branch) picture book, Twelve in a Race (Plumleaf Press), illustrated by Sae Kimura and published March 30, 2022, is a read-aloud rhyming book that retells the origin story of the Chinese zodiac in an engaging and creative manner, while teaching children about the history and culture of Canadians of Asian descent.
Genni Gunn’s (BC Branch) novel Tracing Iris has been published in Italian as Alla Ricerca di Iris by Les Flâneurs Edizioni. Genni will be in Italy to promote the translation and present the book at ten different venues – Rome, Bari, Rutigliano, Monopoli, Siena, Forte dei Marmi, Viareggio, Torino and two in Udine – from…
Betty Guenette (Member at Large) will have her mystery novel, A Burning We Will Die, available April 19 through Renaissance Press. An amateur protagonist, Erin Rine is a community Registered Nurse who literally trips over her dead patient in our Northern Ontario woodland. See the video prelaunch, book cover, trailer and author reading at Renaissance…