@michaelblouin.bsky.social
National award winning Canadian author. Books on the moon with NASA. michaelblouinwriter.com. HARD ELECTRIC available now.
Had the honor today of being interviewed by @hollay.bsky.social for New Books Network Highly suggest this podcast, particularly Hollay's segments. Wherever pods are! (this episode coming soon) @anvilpress.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social @newpoetry.bsky.social @canlit.bsky.social
23.04.2025 22:16 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1"Hi Little Ceasars'? This is Pete, did I just text you an order for a large meat lovers or was that the nuclear codes?"
26.03.2025 22:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are fortunate to live in a truly great country. And, as writers, to receive reimbursement for books held in public libraries. Much appreciation to The Writers Union of Canada, The Canada Council for the Arts, and the Public Lending Rights Program. #canadacouncilforthearts #writersunionofcanada
04.03.2025 20:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
When your agent emails to congratulate you on having your novel land on the moon your inner 20 year old has to take a deep breath or two. (Yes, that's a baseball signed by astronaut John Glenn, and yes, it's in the novel I'm writing now, as is Mr. Glenn. ) #workharder
03.03.2025 20:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mission Control as Carolyn R Parsons' and my own novels successfully land on the surface of the moon last night with NASA and Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 .
02.03.2025 14:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blue Ghost Mission One Status Report: this is the Blue Ghost lander in low orbit over the moon yesterday. It is scheduled to land, carrying my novel "I am Billy the Kid" on Sunday. 20 year old aspiring write me is pretty excited. So am I. #anvilpress #cbcbooks #canlit
28.02.2025 22:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Custom design sweater sent to me by Montreal painter, youtuber and tattoo artist Jonathan Bourassa (details @cultivateyour_mind on IG), who is also a connoisseur of fine literature (i.e. mine...) Limited edition. Limited supply. You can catch his excellent videos here: @Betheother on YouTube.
27.02.2025 21:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was tone deaf to the mood of the country, glad it was changed. As someone else has said here: "If you want a X-border conversation, don’t start with their premise. Start with ours." This is not a time for clickbait.
22.02.2025 19:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In nine days my most recent novel "I am Billy the Kid" will attempt a lunar landing, joining "Skin House", already there, and "Hard Electric" due to launch in November. You can watch live on March 2 right here: youtu.be/3SSjzdj-ONw @anvilpress.bsky.social @canlit.bsky.social
20.02.2025 20:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
iPad edits showing up live on the desktop through the cloud. I can edit on the iPad anywhere and when I come back to the desktop the changes are already there, that's why this is a big help.) @anvilpress.bsky.social
07.02.2025 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is "making it" in Canadian publishing when some of your books are available from Walmart? We should all be shopping CANADIAN, but hey, Walmart... if I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere...
www.walmart.com/ip/I-Am-Bill...
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I don't read reviews on Amazon, but a reader kindly sent me this from Amazon regarding my current "HARD ELECTRIC". Now my favourite online review of all time:
"Did not buy this. I was charged $25.55. It does not work at all!!!! I see it’s now selling for 6.00. Demanding refund. Do not buy this"
Earth as seen from the spacecraft currently carrying my novel "I am Billy the Kid" to the moon to land alongside (though far from) "Skin House", already there. Our precious little blue marble.
As authors we can never fully imagine where our books will go!
This is so good.
04.02.2025 07:08 — 👍 45840 🔁 10826 💬 603 📌 587
Reader Janet Richards has coordinated her nails to the cover of HARD ELECTRIC! A hard reader pic to top! #AnvilPress #CBCBooks #canlit #poetry I've lost track of the number or reader pics to date, but it's a lot. Readers are the most important part of this whole thing. @anvilpress.bsky.social
03.02.2025 23:51 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Reader Hollay @hollayghadery post's today's reader pic! @anvilpress.bsky.social
02.02.2025 19:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
HARD ELECTRIC's first official revue. Read Local BC says (in part): "It’s cold outside! Warm up with Hard Electric, ...raw and gritty... Blouin’s vivid imagery and life-affirming edge explore heartbreak and resilience from late-night bars to sunburned motels." @anvilpress.bsky.social
28.01.2025 12:12 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
They keep on coming! Designer deluxe Robert John Paterson posts this reader pic (where's yours?) @anvilpress.bsky.social
28.01.2025 12:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
More reader pics this afternoon. Reader Mo says HARD ELECTRIC stands alone on her bookcase! Oh the places it goes! @anvilpress.bsky.social
27.01.2025 21:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A poem from a couple of years ago I forgot for HARD ELECTRIC. I'll just have to put another book together for it! (I don't drink anymore fyi)
The Problem that I Have with Drinking
gin always comes to me
with four-point plans:
“Look,” gin says, “First,
we’ll do this, and then…”
But we never do.
Reader Pic tonight from Signal Hill - downtown St John’s. Is there a better thrill for a writer than seeing the books out in the world in their own? @anvilpress.bsky.social
26.01.2025 23:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
•sarcasm on•
I have no idea what this might look like. You?
•sarcasm off•
Reader Jennifer French bought something in Newfoundland! Keep the reader pics coming! #anvilpoetry #cbcbooks #westwoodcreativeartists #canlit
25.01.2025 18:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interview starts at the hour mark in this link
Take heart. We're in this together.
#facebooksucks
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Tomorrow (Friday) morning around 8:00 I'll be in The Friday Special Blend on CKCU FM (93.1 in the Ottawa area) talking about HARD ELECTRIC from #anvilpoetry and who knows what else. Tune in! The coffee is free if you provide your own.
23.01.2025 23:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A veritable plethora of reader pics! Third this morning is from reader Jason. #cbcbooks #westwoodcreativeartists #anvilpoetry #canlit #AnvilPress
22.01.2025 15:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More reader pics! This one from martial arts kingpin and poet John Drudge! #cbcbook #canlit #anvilpoetry
22.01.2025 15:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of my favourite reader pics because it's from from one of my favourite writers, Carolyn R Parsons.
22.01.2025 14:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reader Christine Cosack sends this spectacular reader pic from "not the moon, but the western edge of Canada". You know how I love my reader pics (and my readers!). #anvilpoetry #AnvilPress #canlit
20.01.2025 22:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At 2:23 YouTuber (and wonderful painter and tattoo artist) Jonathan Bourassa has some very nice unsolicited things to say about my novel "Skin House". What a nice surprise! #influencer #likeandsubscribe
We never know where our books will go.
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