September 6, 2016: Online book launch of The Spawning Grounds

[Michelle Barker]

Well thanks Michelle! Gail and I just fell in love with the song when we first heard it. So beautiful.

The song and the photos fit together so nicely.

 

[Rosanna Battigelli]

Your photos are stunning, Mitch! And I love the music! I first heard this lovely song in Thessalon on June 25th, at Stories in the North! Love The Crossroad Magdalenes!

 

[Gail Anderson-Dargatz]

Here I am Gail. Glad to celebrate with you!

Hello Ann (wave!). I just received my copy of @Ann_Eriksson’s novel The Performance in the mail this week. The novel is on the shelves October 1. Check it out: Eriksson: http://www.anneriksson.ca/

 

[Mitch Krupp]

Thanks so much Rosanna!

 

[Gail Anderson-Dargatz]

Beautiful trailer. Exquisite photos.

Hello Michelle! Michelle Barker has had terrific success with her children’s book A Year of Borrowed Men. The book has been nominated for a Chocolate Lily Award and was released in the US this year and has been reviewed in some great places: Kirkus, Horn Book Magazine, School Library Journal. Congratulations Michelle!

 

[Mitch Krupp]

Hi Ann! Good to see you here.

 

[Daniel Griffin]

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.

Beautiful music, great pictures.

 

[Emily De Angelis]

The combination of the song and the images in the trailer almost make me cry. They have an emotional resonance that I feel so strongly...

 

[Ann Eriksson]

Beautiful trailer Gail and Mitch.

 

[Christina Foster]

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.

Hey all. We (Christina and I) are both big fans of the book "The Cure for Death by Lightning" and we were asked to write about it for the event "Stories in the North" which featured readings by Gail and workshops for writers with Gail. I guess we view writing as sort of a transcendent experience whereby we (if we find the right atmosphere) can dial into the same frequency or world or theme or whatever you want to call it that Gail was using when she wrote the book. We tried out best to connect to the same emotional, spiritual, and thematic atmosphere that Gail was connected to when she wrote the novel. I like to think it worked out okay because Gail liked the song! She also felt that the song tied in thematically to her new novel, which is why she is using it to promote it.

 

[Gail Anderson-Dargatz]

Is it okay to do this? Just throw out questions?

Hey Daniel!! Absolutely. I'll answer in just a few minutes ... juggling here!

 

[Ann Eriksson]

Hello Ann (wave!). I just received my copy of @Ann_Eriksson’s novel The Performance in the mail this week. The novel is on the shelves October 1. Check it out: Eriksson: http://www.anneriksson.ca/

Wave back

 

[June Hutton]

Gorgeous trailers and music. A person could get delightfully lost in all the imagery.

 

[Christina Foster]

The combination of the song and the images in the trailer almost make me cry. They have an emotional resonance that I feel so strongly...

Thanks Emily. That's great to hear. It's a strange experience writing artistically and creatively about someone else's artistic and creative work. I'm glad to hear that it resonated with you. Great art breeds and inspires great art. The more we can spread that message, the more we can make the world a magical creative place.

 

[Gail Anderson-Dargatz]

Here is my reading of chapter one of The Spawning Grounds. Again, music by the Crossroad Magdalenes. Photos by Mitch Krupp.

http://www.gailanderson-dargatz.ca/...desk/278-gail-reads-from-the-spawning-grounds

 

[Liisa Kovala]

Great art breeds and inspires great art.

Oh! I love that! The combination of images, music, literature is so captivating.

 

[Christina Foster]

Well thanks Michelle! Gail and I just fell in love with the song when we first heard it. So beautiful.

While we're ranting. Kudos to Mitch Krupp for also connecting to the spirit and theme and atmosphere of Gail's work and indirectly our song with his beautiful photos.

 

[Gail Anderson-Dargatz]

I'm looking forward to seeing Gail at the Vancouver Writers Fest, event #46 Oct. 20

Me too!!

I’ll be doing events right across the country this fall. Check out the Random House site for details on events in your area.

 

[Mitch Krupp]

While we're ranting. Kudos to Mitch Krupp for also connecting to the spirit and theme and atmosphere of Gail's work and indirectly our song with his beautiful photos.

Thanks so much Christina. Knowing Gail's work so well and then mixing that with your and Greg's beautiful music and the photos was really quite overwhelming at times.

 

[Gail Anderson-Dargatz]

As you can see from the Dear Reader note on my last link, The Spawning Grounds took me nearly a decade to write. There were a lot of reasons for this, that all came down to “life.” Writing takes time and energy and when we have work and family, that time and energy is hard to find.

How about you? What stops you from finishing that book project? And what solutions have you found? Please jump right in!