Annabel

Front cover of Strays, an anthology. White cover with a washed out oil painting of a person with dark hair cuddling a tabby cat over their shoulder, in purple and orange tones. The bottom is the title, a list of the authors and "edited by Annabel Townsend" in a black serif font.

Very proud to announce that our 2025 Fiction Anthology, Strays, is off to print! Featuring new short stories from ten Saskatchewan writers.
Pre order here: petes-press.square.site/shop/pre-ord...

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50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath

50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

Our Pete's Press book stall, a table with a dark green cloth, covered with paperback books and our Pete's banner with the cat logo and gold text

We're at Holy Rosary Cathedral for the Cathedral Holiday Craft Market! Selling books while nestled between cozy scarves and hot chocolate. It's the perfect combo! Here til 4pm, #yqr #booksky

For August, added a bold for poetry. I always intend to read more poetry and almost never do. Sad that it took Andrea Gibson's death to move me from following their work online (mostly through Button Poetry on FB) to actually ordering a book.

Also *cough* hi Annabel! Your book was such a fun read ❤

Found you!! Thanks so much for this, glad you enjoyed it!

Journey of a bike advocate. Goes on bike ride - smile emoji Experiences the danger - shocked emoji Approaches city council - straight face emoji nothing changes angry enoji person throwing a molotov cocktail Dreams of ending car culture

The Journey.

Creative developed w/ @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Irony of ironies: a bot just repostes my book...about bots.

Go man goo!!!

HopeStreet book cover showing neon lit skyscrapers looking up into a cloudy sky, title and author are in yellow block caps

The Cover!!!

Due to technical incompetency, the cover reveal is actually underneath...

But either way I'm excited!! HopeStreet is coming out soon with @petespress.bsky.social !

#booksky #amwriting 📚💙

It's to research "hopelessness in relation to climate change" which sounds both fascinating and terrible. But my bestie from years ago now works there so that's a big draw..plus we can already cope with the cold, and it's a long way from the meth lab to the south of us, shall we say.

Everyone outside the US should ditch Microsoft Office. It's not safe and it's a disrespectful beast when it comes to worker frustration.

I know, a good friend is currently living in Oulu.

Ponderings of the morning:
Do I apply for a postdoc in Finland?

Congratulations yooooo!

Yep, congrats!!

Weirdly red, but cute heart-shaped aurora tonight, Regina SK. Terribly fuzzy phone photo

The bright scarlet aurora right over our house was a bit unnerving tonight until I noticed it was heart shaped!

Repost with an iconic fictional band

Day 11: about ~1200 handwritten in the car

Day 10: handwrote *some* words by firelight. Romantic but not efficient.

Day 9: my cumulative total has got lost in a mess of multiple computers and a notebook. But I did do 1648 words today.

Not unrelated: nearly 14 years since we left that area faaaaaar behind and never looked back. 🇨🇦

'We're afraid of walkable distances now?' — conspiracies and the '15-minute city' - ABC listen The polite world of urban planning has become the latest target of conspiracy theorists. In recent weeks, the 15-minute city concept — where neighbourhoods provide life's essentials in 15 minutes by f...

“We’re afraid of walkable distances now?” I was one of the first to go after the liars & conspiracy theorists who targeted the “15 Minute Cities” message. Here’s my interview with Aussie National Radio with @greenj.bsky.social — give it a listen, and think about how we should push back on ALL lies.

That wasn't the word I used.

🚨 If you are an author wanting to file in the Anthropic class action case

I have been trying... My first book got scraped and so did a bunch of my PhD papers. Unfortunately that particular lawsuit only covers you if you were published in the US. No hope for Canadian books even if they were scraped at the same time.

Wait, does that mean we'll get bike lanes?

I found this year's to be easier than last time? Or maybe I am just building a tolerance. Not pleasant either way.

Sharrows used to make sense in theory, but are now mostly useless and possibly dangerous Road sharrows are about as effective as trying to protect yourself from a charging rhino with a wet paper towel

Sharrows used to make sense in theory, but are now mostly useless and possibly dangerous.
momentummag.com/sharrows-use...

I mean Coopers, 🤦‍♀️ sorry