In what should come as no surprise to anyone who has talked to me for longer than forty-five seconds, I self-identify as a geek feminist. How could...
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This weekend I am leaving, not on a jet plane, but on a ferry boat. Where am I headed, you ask? That’s right! Lorna, Ali and myself...
British Columbians have always been known for being rebels, perhaps because the rain makes our socks wet and we transfer that annoyance onto The Man. So in...
This week I did a mini road-trip to visit some of my bookstores a little further out in the ‘burbs. While Surrey and Langley aren’t very far...
You know in movies about Business People™ where they all meet around a boardroom table and there are fancy chairs and someone Very Important talks about something...
Everyone around me has gone crazy. They’re all “getting healthy” and “cutting out carbs” and “not eating entire family-sized bags of chips for dinner,” all because it...
I made my triumphant return to the Ampersand Inc. Vancouver offices on Monday to face a daunting task indeed… catalogue mailouts. For a whole week, Ali and...
It’s the last Friday before Christmas. This means it’s time for the annual, “Oh my God I haven’t bought any presents and the malls are insane why...
I apologize in advance. There will be very few exclamation marks in this post (“Who are you and what have you done with Dani?!”) and it will...
I’m back from sales conference! My head is full of new books and my TBR (to be read) pile has grown by about a million ARCs. ...
We’ve just about wrapped up with Vancouver’s Spring 2016 conference. Remember those old Looney Tunes cartoons where Sylvester gets a bonk to the noggin and little birds...
I was feeling a pretty uninspired to write my weekly blog post. The weather in Vancouver has been “meh” at best and absolutely soggy at worst. To...
Warning! This photo-dump includes: Showtunes Talk of Harry Potter wands Overuse of exclamation marks Proceed with caution! -Dani
I’ve spent the last few days driving around and visiting some of my favourite North Island stores. While Vancouver Island and its booksellers have been lovely,...
Unless you actively avoid the internet (if so, congratulations on finding a way to read this blog!), you probably know that it was Back to the Future...
In one of my forays into the wilds of the internet, I turned up this fantastic Spooktober Reading Bingo card from Julie Israel’s blog: I love...
I just finished reading A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab this week and excuse me, why aren’t I living in Red London right now?!?...
It feels like I got back from my roadtrip ages ago but, really, Ive only been back a week. I finally have the time to share some...
I’ll keep this one short and sweet since you’ll be getting a full report of my travels next week. I’ve done just over 1100kms in four days...
I’m hitting the road next week to head up to the Okanagan on my first road trip as a book rep. I’m visiting a bunch of my...