September 6, 2016: Online book launch of The Spawning Grounds
- Thread starter Gail Anderson-Dargatz
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Hello everyone! And welcome.
As most of you know, The Spawning Grounds has been a long time coming, so I’m definitely celebrating the release of the novel today!
I’m thrilled that so many of my writer friends could join me here and on Twitter today. A little later we’ll all be talking about the things that stop us from finishing a project and what we can do about them.
But first, in upcoming posts, here’s more about The Spawning Grounds: the landscape behind it, why it took so long for me to write it, and a reading from it.
Please feel free to jump into the discussion here or on Twitter at #TheSpawningGrounds any time.
As most of you know, The Spawning Grounds has been a long time coming, so I’m definitely celebrating the release of the novel today!
I’m thrilled that so many of my writer friends could join me here and on Twitter today. A little later we’ll all be talking about the things that stop us from finishing a project and what we can do about them.
But first, in upcoming posts, here’s more about The Spawning Grounds: the landscape behind it, why it took so long for me to write it, and a reading from it.
Please feel free to jump into the discussion here or on Twitter at #TheSpawningGrounds any time.
Hi Gail, great to see your new book out. Read your piece in the Globe last weekend (or was it the weekend before?) I can't join for long here so I wanted to get a question out right at the start--Is it okay to do this? Just throw out questions? Realizing this might be out of order for what you planned, but it's the question I wanted to ask from the moment I heard about the book...
I remember you talking in the past about the intertwining of real life and your fictional work--fiction influencing life, I guess, though we usually think of it the other way around. I'm wondering if this novel has any of those elements, any ways in which the fiction you were working on seemed to have a hand a hand in what was going on in your life? (And I ask this without knowing much about what's going on in your life these days....)
I remember you talking in the past about the intertwining of real life and your fictional work--fiction influencing life, I guess, though we usually think of it the other way around. I'm wondering if this novel has any of those elements, any ways in which the fiction you were working on seemed to have a hand a hand in what was going on in your life? (And I ask this without knowing much about what's going on in your life these days....)
Here’s a book trailer for The Spawning Grounds, to give you a taste of what the novel is about. My husband Mitch Krupp took the beautiful photos that you see in this trailer and in the other videos I’m about to post. Music by Crossroad Magdalenes.
In my blog, the landscape that inspired The Spawning Grounds, you’ll see another video in which you’ll hear the full version of the song you heard in the book trailer, composed and performed by the Crossroad Magdalenes, Christina Foster and Greg MacLachlan.
Christina and Greg, can you tell us a little about the process of writing this song, Letter to the Blue (Beth’s Song)?
Angie, who is also with us today, asked Christina and Greg to write this song for a reading I did in Thessalon in June, for the Stories in the North festival. As soon as Mitch and I heard this beautiful song, we knew we had to find a way to use it. The videos that you see here today, including the reading, are the result.
Christina and Greg, can you tell us a little about the process of writing this song, Letter to the Blue (Beth’s Song)?
Angie, who is also with us today, asked Christina and Greg to write this song for a reading I did in Thessalon in June, for the Stories in the North festival. As soon as Mitch and I heard this beautiful song, we knew we had to find a way to use it. The videos that you see here today, including the reading, are the result.
