Paula Johanson

Neo-Liberalism has been a disaster leading to Giant Monopolies like we've never seen before!

Cory Doctorow explains the consequences of 40+ years of Neo-Liberal policies and deregulation of competition law.

I'm reading the Kobo edition with the 1st 3 Livi Talbot books. Adventure! Daring! Sibling interaction!

I think it's okay to buy second-hand books, supporting local small business. And libraries do pay for books (sometimes even for each borrowing). That's how many readers learn of books & authors they like.

Buying books from thrift stores & second-hand bookstores is supporting small local business. Visit libraries too! Get library cards, borrow books & ebooks & audiobooks 🙂

Libraries are awesome!
Yesterday we had a free Holiday Decorations Swap sharing 16 boxes of ornaments, lights & ribbon, & 6 xmas trees. Cleaned up the tinsel before a Lifelong learning class. Picked up 2 books from inter-library loan.

I do what I can, writing in English for educational publishers & a small press, giving review ebooks, supporting digital humanities internationally, & voting to support international aid.

Or Canada, or the UK, or Europe, or NZ, or Australia. Good libraries support books! And Public Lending Right in many countries sends an honorarium to authors of books in library collections.

To anyone who thinks people who pirated copies didn't have $ anyways so those aren't lost sales -- those are lost LIBRARY sales.
Request books! Libraries are great.

I have my books available on sixteen online vendors, and bookbub, and you can ask for them at local bookstores and libraries. Plus sometimes people ask for an ebook and yeah, like most writers I give review copies.

Oooh! I looked up moon phases in 1798 and the NOAA website helped me figure it out. Awesome!

That's a rotten thing for anyone to do to an author. It's bad enough when my books for educational publishers got pirated to train AI. I'm on disability and can manage not to pirate books.
Libraries and Project Gutenberg are free.
A Kobo Plus subscription is 99cents a month.

Also remember to take a dog break. Dogs are awesome.

Getting a new bike home can be a challenge!
I picked up mine, rode a few km to a friend's place, later rode 50 km home on the Galloping Goose trail nearly all the way. Lovely introduction to my recumbent trike! Bike trails are better than dodging trucks.

Reawakening Memory by Celu Amberstone books2read.com/reawakeningmemory Tommo's dream-world was a grim rocky desert plain, pockmarked with large craters, wisps of blue smoke curling around some of their edges. No sun or moon illuminated the dark sky, but now and then a fiery red light lit up the horizon followed by a thundering boom. I shuddered in spite of myself.

Here's a quote from Celu Amberstone's novel Reawakening Memory, fifth in her Tales of Tasimu series.
Need a gift for a fan of fantasy series with real-world elements? Get the complete series for #EBookGifts at books2read.com/amberstone

That must be an amazing book! Gotta read your review. Is Nalo Hopkinson in it? Or Bernadette?

Remember to look for not only authors for #EBookGifts but their publishers! A press like @tychebooks.bsky.social has many voices. Their website is like wandering in a neighbourhood bookstore.

Your books' bilingual Canadian elements remind me there isn't one solitary future with everyone identical & speaking one language.

A quote by Greta Thunberg stating that, "The one thing we need more than hope is actoin. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere." It's in white font on a blue sky background with puffy white clouds.

Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"

My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)

The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?

Because Greta is right ..

#EBookGifts Small press authors on books to get for gifts Saturday Nov 22

Tales of Tasimu series complete! Memory Reclaimed by Celu Amberstone Read all 6 books now books2read.com/taste

Celebrating the complete series Tales of Tasimu by Celu Amberstone for #EBookGifts!
Thrilling adventures in history and the natural world, at times dark, but with the strength of friends and family love.
Find all 6 books and more by Celu at kashallan.blogspot.com and books2read.com/amberstone

What a great theme for a #BikeBus special ride! Sounds like it was a fun day with this big peloton of kids riding together on quiet road, with costumes and some decorations.

I've always found @cycling2asylum.bsky.social's books read like real life through a science fiction paradigm.
Must be the #bicycles!
Go to xyr profile page and read reviews, interviews & more. These are great books (and thoughtful, too) to recommend for #EBookGifts.

Find books by Paula Johanson at your favorite digital store! Books by Paula Johanson

And to get copies of ebooks or paperbacks from over 16 online vendors, go to books2read.com/paulaj and click on any book's cover image. You can request paperbacks at your local bookstore and the public library! #EBookGifts

Doublejoy Books Doublejoy Books -- the eclectic publisher of various works of Canadian literature

It's #EBookGifts day! Some writer friends are posting on various social media platforms about how our ebooks make great gifts for the holiday season.
You can find my new books at www.doublejoybooks.com where there are nonfiction books, slice-of-life stories, and fiction. Choices!

These kits were soooo cool. One kid in my class had one. And a chemistry set the size of checked luggage. He made so many explosions in his room, the ceiling was spackled with...um.

All books from Jean-Louis Trudel | Bookstore Bertrand | Purchase print books and eBooks online A network of over 100 bookstores, more than 500,000 print books or eBooks, unparalleled expertise. It is possible to buy local on the Web!

SF Canada members mourn the loss of our own Jean-Louis Trudel, friend and supportive colleague, author of some thirty books, and stories, articles & works of criticism. Here's a link to some of his books. Ask for them at your library. bertrand.booksellers.ca/authors/jean...

On #ShamelessPromoFriday let's all oooh & ahh at Celu Amberstone's series Tales of Tasimu.
Now in ebooks and paperbacks
Six books, series finished!
books2read.com/taste
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Parliamentarians: Deliver Homes for All - Leadnow

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On #ShamelessPromoFriday I am shamelessly promoting my Slice of Life series.
No Parent Is An Island
Working Parent
Under The Plow
2 of the 3 are on sale at 99cents
All 3 are great reads of real life stories.
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It seems there's an actual social role for him! And this is the closest he has come to doing what people need.

Jean-louis Trudel nous a quitté. C'est une info très triste qui nous est parvenue. L'auteur canadien Jean-Louis Trudel est décédé ces jours ci lors d'une résidence d'auteur à Vilnius en Lituan

We are greatly saddened to learn of Jean-Louis Trudel's passing. What a staggering loss for our community. Our sincere condolences to his friends, family, and colleagues.