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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 5d

Cooling is a top priority in data center operations. In order to think things through properly (and protect your thinking hat from catching fire), have regular breaks to cool down from reading and thinking. This advice is brought to you from 1608. #skystorians

A detail from a 1608 broadside showing a man with a thinking hat reading in a big book. His hat is touched from a fire that comes from above. Source: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN816080135

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Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · 4d

As strikes start (& continue✊🏻) on the eve of muni elections, I spoke with Daybreak Alberta about slates, strikes & what history has to teach us about our current turbulent times. My new novel explores Canada’s communist and KKK history #standwithteachers www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · 4d

Tara McCarthy & I spoke of secret societies, peace making and the KKK in Canada on the launch day of my new novel Revolution Songs. Take a listen Edmonton AM www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social · 7d

🎧 Have you heard the one and only @carissahalton.bsky.social on CBC yet? Don't miss this amazing interview! ❤️ 💛

#NeWestPress #RevolutionSongs #CBCListen #ReadLocal #BuyCanadian

New Interview. CBC Listen. With Carissa Halton author of Revolution Songs.

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la Vermeer @lavermeer.bsky.social · 8d

So very pleased to be at the launch event for REVOLUTION SONGS by @carissahalton.bsky.social, published by @newestpress.bsky.social. What a phenomenal turnout!

#books #reading #writing #publishing #events #yeg #alberta #history

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Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for being part of it!!❤️

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Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · 8d

Hey—We have the same book launch party day! Sorry I’ll miss yours tonight, but looking forward to reading❤️

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Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · 9d

Today’s the day! Buy REVOLUTION SONGS wherever great books are sold.
#canlit #historicalfiction #booklaunch

NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social · 9d

🎉 Happy Pub Day 🎉 to REVOLUTION SONGS and to @carissahalton.bsky.social make sure to get your copy now! It's a must read this fall!

#NeWestPress #RevolutionSongs #NewRelease #ABbooks #CanadianLiterature #CanLit #ReadLocal #BuyLocal #ReadCanadian #BuyCanadian

Book Cover: Revolution Songs by Carissa Halton. A stylized black and white mountains with a solid red sky and yellow text. Silhouettes of ravens circle.

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Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · Apr 6

Flour sack dresses could be far from sack-like, plain and dowdy. So resourceful! Novel research unearths the best stuff. (Also, my book launch my include a flour sack dress…)

#writersky #bookresearch #historicalfiction #histfic #vintagefashion

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NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social · Apr 3

You are invited to a double book launch! APRIL 30th | 7pm @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social

Featuring Sarain Frank Soonias and @wendymcgrath.bsky.social , with special guests @sjonespoet.bsky.social and Jaspreet Singh

Join this stellar NeWest line up for an evening of poetry, discussion, and snacks!

Event Poster: Poetry Launch. April 30, 2025 at 7pm. Audreys Books (10702 Jasper Ave, Edmonton). The Beauty of Vultures by Wendy McGrath & Danny Miles. All Wrong Horses on Fire that Go Away in the Rain by Sarin Frank Soonias. Featuring Wendy McGrath and Sarain Frank Soonias with special guests Jaspreet Singh and Samantha Jones.

Book Cover: All Wrong Horses on Fire the Go Away in the Rain by Sarain Frank Soonias. The background is blue-grey with white diagonal raindrops running from the top right, then turning into red flames at the bottom. The title and author name are hand-written at a matching angle.

Book Cover: The Beauty of Vultures poems by Wendy McGrath and photos by Danny Miles. A grey background with black camera details and red text. The title sits inside the camera lens, with author and photographer names wrapping around the lens.

Book Cover: Attic Rain. Poems by Samantha Jones. Raindrops run gently down a sky blue background, while a grid of ten by three bright yellow smiley faces sit on the left-hand side of the cover, various expressions on their faces, there expressions repeating across the rows.

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Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · Apr 6

Always finding ways to get out of my head.

Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · Apr 5

I do love this! “The revolution will be typewritten” 🙏🤞

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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · Mar 16

Contact me for info

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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · Mar 16

Join the SLOCOM Revolution!

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Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · Mar 20

Sometimes our brains just have a limit. As though it’s a good steed, I’ve been working hard to pay more attention when it says, “Rest, my friend. We both need it.”

#booksky #amwriting #writinglife

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Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · Mar 12

💥Book news. 👀 Watch til the end for the 📔title reveal

Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · Feb 25

Thx to everyone who borrowed Little Yellow House from the library in all formats! Every year, the Canada Council for the Arts mails $ to Canadian writers thanks to the incredible Public Lending Right Program. Not all countries have such a generous way of affirming writers’ IP and copyright. 🙏🇨🇦

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Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · Feb 1

Before the storm
Love locks
Eyes with death

It says
You are not the
Enemy

#flashpoem

Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · Jan 29

Vancouver Bound

white to green,
grey to blue,
transformation in an hour

Modern Life

#flashpoem

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Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · Jan 28

A book about the opportunities crisis creates for people who want to legislate hate. 😳 The characters are great, writing beautiful. My quibble is her choice to cut away or back flash the most interesting scenes. But a beautiful, timely, slower book about art & activism. 3.5/5
#booksky #amreading

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Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · Jan 17

My novel… every strategic planning I’ve ever helped facilitate… my life 🤗 let’s embrace the mess a little, right? Like even in nature, how natural is a straight line?

#goalsetting #reallife

Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · Jan 11

Set in Rome during the Nazi occupation, a priest with the help of his “choir” helps Allied POWs escape. I haven’t read anything about WWII set in Italy so loved that. But so much back & forth into the past, between characters I didn’t remember. Beautiful prose, but sometimes too much of it. 3/5 ⭐️

Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · Jan 8

New year, new office set up meant stringing new lights and adding way more desk space — ready to work ❤️

#amwriting #writinglife #homeoffice

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Carissa Halton @carissahalton.bsky.social · Dec 23

Happy solstice. The light is coming! (And on last night’s magical ski, I felt so grateful for the beauty of this land on which we live❤️)

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