Tag: ontario

• Far, Far Away cover reveal!

  

  Today is the official cover reveal day for Mirror World Publishing’s anthology, Far, Far Away! Read all about this amazing collection of science fiction and fantasy coming out on June 17th, 2021! About Far, Far Away: “In a land far, far away… In a distant galaxy… Once upon a time… These are all ways to […]

  Brittni Brinn

  April 16, 2021

  publishing, short story

  adventure, aliens, ancient rome, anthology, author, canadian, coming soon, cover reveal, creativity, escapism, far far away, fiction, mirror world publishing, ontario, publishing, science fiction, SFF, short stories, space, speculative fiction, stories, time travel, windsor, yqg

• from Adventure Worlds

  

  Welcome to the humans behind Adventure Worlds Press, Ben Van Dongen and Christian Laforet! I’m going to be asking them some questions about publishing and how the new edition of The Patch Project came to be! Ben Van Dongen is the author of The Thinking Machine, The Neon Heart, and Broadcast Wasteland and co-authored the […]

  Brittni Brinn

  November 17, 2020

  events, the patch project

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• book launch

  

  Adventure Worlds Press will be hosting an online day-long celebration of the three books they’ve released this year – including A Place That Used to Be! After a couple of date changes, we’ve settled on FRIDAY, AUGUST 21st, 2020 as the day for the book launch. The launch will be held online through Facebook, with […]

  Brittni Brinn

  August 11, 2020

  events, sequel

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• a good secret

  

  So I’ve been keeping a secret from you all, which is why I’ve not been posting here very much over the past little while. It’s a good secret, which made it even more difficult to keep. But now that the period of silence is at its end, I can happily announce that I am one […]

  Brittni Brinn

  May 2, 2019

  writing

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• starting a full-time job and how it’s affected my creative life

  

  A month ago, I started a full-time job. Up until this point in my life, I’ve mostly worked part-time, fitting in shifts around my university studies and creative projects. Since moving to Windsor, I’d avoided even considering positions that required over 25 hours of my time per week. I thought full-time work would be a […]

  Brittni Brinn

  March 22, 2019

  writing

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• holiday draw

  

  Congratulations to Sarah O. for winning The Patch Project Holiday draw! You can watch the draw video here. The Green Bean Festive Market was a wonderful event! All of the vendors were cool and friendly, and there was a steady flow of people mingling and checking out the tables throughout the day. I’m very happy […]

  Brittni Brinn

  December 13, 2018

  events

  2018, author, author blog, books, christmas, debut novel, end of the year, events, festive market, fiction, first novel, holiday draw, journey, local, marketing, novel, ontario, post-apocalyptic, showing her teeth, tajana ristic, thank you, the green bean cafe, the patch project, windsor, winner, writer, yqgbooks, yqgrocks

• “intellectual gore”

  

  If you haven’t listened to Daniel Romano’s new track, check it out and tell me what you think because I’m a little obsessed. “…compliment the colours of our intellectual gore” is a lyric I keep coming back to. So good! Anyway! Hello, and here is a quick reminder that The Feminist Fair is taking place […]

  Brittni Brinn

  October 23, 2018

  events

  arts and crafts, books, comic, creativity, daniel romano, events, feminist fair, fiction, literature, ontario, showing her teeth, the patch project, vendors, windsor, writing, zines

• the first thursday, featuring Ben Van Dongen and The Thinking Machine

  

  For the next four Thursdays, I’ll be featuring a different book by a local author – and they’ll be featuring The Patch Project! It’s our version of a book exchange-style blog tour, and should be a lot of fun! First up is Ben Van Dongen, with his new cyberpunk novella, The Thinking Machine! The Thinking […]

  Brittni Brinn

  July 19, 2018

  guest post, review

  ben van dongen, blog tour, book review, creativity, cyberpunk, fiction, genre fiction, implants, local author, new book, novella, ontario, scifi, short read, technology, the thinking machine, thursday post, windsor