Let Yo’ Creative Flag Fly!
October 9, 2014 |
Hello friends! Danielle Krysa aka The Jealous Curator talks about your inner critic and how to…well, shut it up. As a kid, I remember spending the good...
Most Exciting Book of the Year
October 8, 2014 |
Christmas came early on Thursday, Oct. 2nd when I received my copy of DIRIGIBLE DREAMS by C. Michael Hiam from ForeEdge / UBC Press. I have actually...
Undeniable
October 7, 2014 |
Science has never been my strong suit but I did watch a lot of Bill Nye the Science Guy when my kids were growing up. I loved...
Have you seen The Dirty Apron Cookbook?
October 3, 2014 |
Happy Friday! Today is a wonderful day as my sample of The Dirty Apron Cookbook just landed and I can hardly wait to go home and get...
Rep Picks!
October 2, 2014 |
Hi guys! I want to make sure everyone is checking out our monthly Staff Picks on our scrolls (see above). If you click on any of our...
Time to Boost Your Vitamin D
September 30, 2014 |
After a glorious summer and fall we had a bit of a rainy day here on Vancouver Island. With a shorter greyer day one feels a definite...
Sad News
September 29, 2014 |
I don’t even really know how to begin this post. Last week Jim Deva died. Jim was co-owner of Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium, an LGBTQ...
Do You Have a to-be-read pile?
September 26, 2014 |
Happy Friday! Yesterday was the first full day of autumn and here in Vancouver it came in with rain and wind. No doubt at all that summer...
Sept Eats ‘n Tweets
September 25, 2014 |
Hi guys! We had our monthly office Eats ‘n Tweets this week and it was delicious! Karen slaved away and made us a chicken arugula salad with toasted...
Spy Food
September 24, 2014 |
I divide my reading week like this: nonfiction books that require concentration on weekends, and fiction on weekdays. When I am particularly busy, I read spy thrillers....
Creating Inner Spaces
September 23, 2014 |
http://http://www.enneagramquiz.com/quiz.html What’s your enneagram? I just received a sample of Inner Spaces – Paul Vincent Wiseman & the Wiseman Group published by Gibbs Smith. It...
A little surprise
September 19, 2014 |
I am not your typical reader of graphic novels but I have enjoyed quite a few of them now and have just started and am really liking...
The Big Toronto Mail Out
September 18, 2014 |
Hi guys! Well we did it! The Toronto team finally took the plunge and followed the Vancouver office in doing a group mail out. We were warned...
On the Edge
September 16, 2014 |
I just finished reading On the Edge – Edward St. Aubyn’s novel about the New Age movement which is coming out from Picador next month. Set mainly...
Open Housing!
September 15, 2014 |
Twice a year we host open houses in our Vancouver and Toronto showrooms, and invite accounts to come in and check out new books. I’m officially in...
What are you doing this weekend?
September 12, 2014 |
Hello and happy Friday. We have survived the Winter catalogue mailing and the weekend looms. See if you can guess what my plans are: What are you...
Toronto Cooks
September 10, 2014 |
You know when you work hard to make money and decide not to spend it on frivolous things, like fancy shoes, and you’re so proud of yourself...
The Fall Chapter
September 8, 2014 |
In many ways fall is the beginning of a new year. Students head back to school, (at least in most provinces,) and in the book business we...
Time for Catalogues
September 8, 2014 |
So we’ve all been talking about the changing of seasons around here, and at the Ampersand offices that means catalogue mailing. I love that mailing time means...
You can feel Fall in the air
September 5, 2014 |
Happy Friday! Even though I don’t want summer to be over, that crispness in the air has arrived, along with the low mists over the blueberry fields...