you do not have to do racism to experience “the frisson of transgression” you can simply shoplift an eyeliner pencil or cheat on your husband instead
There are many amazing roadside attractions in Canada, but few are as famous as the Wawa Goose.
Built shortly after the Trans-Canada Highway was completed through the area, there have been three versions of the goose.
This is the story.
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The Craven Road community art gallery (Toronto).
I also like Type Books and Book City (both have multiple locations). Bakka-Phoenix for speculative fiction.
Hopeless Romantics bookstore on Queen W if you like romance! (I haven't been to their new location, but went to the old one.) They also have a pop-up in Union Station with Little Ghosts (horror bookshop), which is close to the convention center. Ends in May.
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Result! Just received from Grammarly:
"Hi,
Thank you for reaching out.
After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces."
1/
🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky
The Ultimate Pi Day Party is $3.14 in ebook.
He wants to throw an amazing Pi Day party and she owns a local pie shop, so he hires her to cater the party. But no matter how much time they spend together, he’s not going to fall in love with her…at least that’s what he tells himself.
Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie is just $1.99 (USD/CAD) in ebook this month.
Emily Hung, author and barista, is the last single daughter. To get her mother off her back about her single status, she fakes a relationship with the son of her parents’ friends.
Pi Day is coming up soon, and I have two romances with pi(e) in the title!
1) Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie
2) The Ultimate Pi Day Party
Just doing a little math on the difference in royalties I receive on adult books vs kids books and hardcover vs paperback:
50,000 copies of an adult novel in HC
=
1,500,000 copies of a children's illustrated chapter book in PB
Blows my mind. 50k vs 1.5M
NEW COVER NEW COVER NEW COVER!
I've been dying to show off this incredible piece of art by Martina Fačkova, and here it is!
On October 6, 2026, you're all going to meet Judith Ban, and I cannot wait.
“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”
I know it's only March, but I believe that "sloppelganger" is 2026 Word of the Year
🌸 She has arrived 🌸
A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS, the Regency romp starring a cunning society lady who is looking for a fake marriage but instead falls for a genderfluid poetess, is out now.
Full synopsis, buy links, etc: tjalexander.com#books6
apparently the dad decides to solve the love triangle by making the two suitors jump off a cliff?? (whoever survives is the winner)
anyway, as a romance author, I'm amused
lost film stories (which I consider "research" right now) are the best
it takes about a week for my appetite to return to normal after this type of chemo.
it might be a library book. I did not want to pick it up.
Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.
Just learned of Daughter of Dawn, a 1920 film with an entirely Native American cast. It was feared lost, but...
"In 2005, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art's Brian Hearn was offered the film for $35,000 by a private investigator, who had been paid for a job with the film."
We've had some warm weather in Toronto, so I went out for gelato twice in the last three days. Snow is supposed to return later this week.
Got myself a library card for the first time in a decade. Mostly for access to movies/documentaries through Kanopy.
Currently behind by $20 so please find it in your hearts to bid. Unless you WANT me slapped by a burrito sized carbohydrate in which case search for Meryl's items lol
www.32auctions.com/organization...
yes, it has revealed lots of brown maple leaves, plastic bottles, Tim Hortons cups...and in front of my building, it appears a hardcover book (!) was buried in the snow.
His younger brother Ralph was also an actor and died just a few years ago. You may know him as Tran in New Girl.
They end up together at the end, and there are even a few lines of Chinese (Taishanese/Toisanese).
The bad people are the white guys!
This is a B movie, not a high-budget production, but these things are noteworthy for an American movie that's almost 90 years old.
In 1937, they starred in Daughter of Shanghai. Watch the second clip here to see them together. He plays an FBI agent...possibly decades before there were any actual FBI agents of Asian descent!
