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Wise words from Maya Angelou.

We wish you a peaceful and healthy holiday season from the DigiWriting Team!

We want to send out a big thank you to everyone who we have worked with this year!
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Happy Winter Solstice! Grab a good book and celebrate the arrival of winter and the holiday season.

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Everyone needs their alone time...perhaps writers more than anyone! Do you agree?

Holiday Book Sales Tip: Offer a small gift as a limited time offer!
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Thank you to those who fought, and continue to fight, for our freedom.

As we celebrate the many blessings in our lives this Thanksgiving, we are reminded of the people that supported us along the way. Wishing everyone a with family and friends! Eat well, laugh lots and curl up with a good book! What are you grateful for?

Since we are based in a theatre town, we are watching the trends very carefully. Some are more comfy with crowds than others right from the start but book signings, poetry readings and launches have mostly been virtual until now. Could this be a way back?

Live Nation Will Require Vaccines or COVID Tests for Artists and Audiences The new COVID policy goes into effect October 4.

Isn’t Heidi Sander, something? We agree! - Theresa

Lyricist Marion Adler: Five Things You Need To Write Powerful And Evocative Poetry An Interview With Heidi Sander

I don't know about you but I still have a hard time concentrating on dense text. Something about a year and a half of stress and brain fog has slowed my focus. So I have turned to YA novels that keep me engaged and thinking but often have clearer story lines. We are always encouraging authors to post their own writing on Goodreads and to use their literary knowledge to review great reads for others. Here's a recent list of Young Adult books to help you pass those dog (eared) days of summer. Are you or your kids reading the next great breakaway hit?

~Theresa Albert

Get Hyped for Young Adult Week 2021! Compelling coming-of-age stories, touching teen romances, and boundary-breaking genre tales: that's right, we're shining a spotlight on the joys of y...

Do you have a favourite podcast? Here's one we like around here that gets us thinking from different angles. Helpful to boost creativity!

Hidden Brain Recent episodes of Hidden Brain podcast can now be found at hiddenbrain.org. Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world-– and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain's host Shankar Vedantam reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, the biases that sha...

Our director of comms, Theresa Albert is always reading up on what is new and next. She shared this with the team (to support her theory that voice and sound is the future, we suspect ;~)

Council Post: Changing Trends In The Publishing Industry The easy access to electronic platforms services the demand for instant content, but print is holding up.