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Frances Peck
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New to the sky | Editor turned novelist | THE BROKEN PLACES, a Globe & Mail best book 2022, and UNCONTROLLED FLIGHT (NeWest Press) | East coaster gone west | francespeck.com
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Museum + tea + treats + authors = FUN! 🏠🍵🫖🍪🍰📖
Sunday, Nov 23, Log Cabin Museum, Saanichton (Vancouver Island). If you're on Vancouver Island, come on by!
A beige poster in the middle of which are head shots of three light-haired white women, (left to right) Edeana Malcolm, Frances Peck, Petra Krumme. The poster says Author's Tea, Celebrate Local Authors! November 23rd, 2 to 4 pm, $10 cash at door includes tea and light treats. Along the bottom is a line that says Talk and Tea series at the LogCabinMuseum.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Funding cuts are eviscerating BC arts organizations. I just donated to FBCW because the Fed has:
1. taught me a ton about the craft and business of writing
2. given me a network of writers to connect with and learn from
3. launched a MATCHING campaign - my favourite way to donate
bcwriters.ca/Match
Purple and gold poster with a laptop in the background, by the Federation of BC Writers (bcwriters.ca). Text says: "I'm spreading the word to support BC writers. Donate now! Every dollar up to $10,000 is matched." There is an image of 10 dollars expanding to 20 dollars, and a note in the corner that says "Words that multiply."
October 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Happy to be among the Lower Mainland authors at the Richmond Library's Writers for Readers event today, Oct 7. Come say hi if you're around! Until 7pm. Brighouse branch. 📚
Blond white woman in a red sweater standing behind a table of books, with library bookcases in the background.
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Seeking that creative spark? Paper Covers Rock on Salt Spring Island, Oct 3-4, is an affordable, multidisciplinary festival for writers and other creatives. I'll be there to teach my Sentences with Style workshop (Oct 4) and to soak up the inspiration.
Details: www.papercoversrock.ca
Image of a piece of paper, folded like a tent and covering a rock. Text says: "Paper Covers Rock, 3-4 October 2025, Salt Spring Island, BC; workshops, live readings, music, and creative sparks shared in good company."
September 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Sorry to miss the launch party for The Fiddlehead issue 304, which (I'm still pinching myself) contains an essay I wrote. I'll be downtown at Word Vancouver all day, wishing I could do two things at once. If you're free, the Fiddlehead launch is open to all: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Poster for launch party of The Fiddlehead's special issue 304, on Saturday, September 20, 2025, Fredericton Public Library, 12:30-3:00pm (Atlantic time). Beside the text is the cover of issue 304, which features a painting of a hand holding a s'more.
September 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Thanks, Indigo Robson, for including "The Broken Places" in this display of fiction set in Vancouver. Thanks, too, to @lisabrideau.bsky.social (whose "Adrift" is set nearby, in Nanaimo) for spotting and photographing!
Photo of a round table in a bookstore. A sign on the table says "Set in Vancouver." A number of books are piled on the table. The most visible are "She's a Lamb!" by Meredith Hambrock, "The Gum Thief" and "JPod" by Douglas Coupland, "The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf" by Timothy Taylor, "Kill All the Lawyers" by William Deverell, and "The Broken Places" by Frances Peck.
August 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Nice to see Meltdown, the science memoir by @snowhydro.bsky.social, in the North Vancouver District Public Library.😍📚
Cover of the memoir "Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist" by Sarah Boon. Cover background is a blue, grey and white glacier with two silhouetted figures climbing it. A red sticker in the corner says "New!"
August 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Give your writing project (or yourself) a kick in the you-know with my Getting Unstuck workshop. On beautiful Bowen Island, Sep 13, 9:30-11:30 am. Still some seats left. Register:
www.writeonbowen.com/event-detail...
Poster for Write on Bowen Festival of Readers and Writers, www.writeonbowen.com, featuring a head shot of female author Frances Peck, blond hair, wearing blue, with the text: Getting Unstuck: Get out of the muck and back into the magic! Saturday, September 13, 9:30 to 11:30 am, Bowen Island Public Library Annex.
August 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Is your writing blocked? "Getting Unstuck" is the theme of a workshop I'm leading on Sat, Sep 13 (9:30-11:30am), at the Write on Bowen Festival of Readers & Writers.

Cross the ocean to a Pacific island (i.e., hop the ferry to Bowen!) for this inspiring weekend.
www.writeonbowen.com
Blue and white poster for Write on Bowen Festival of Readers and Writers, September 12-14, 2025. Poster says: "Come write with us on beautiful Bowen Island! A weekend of words, craft, and connection. www.writeonbowen.com Discounted early bird registration now open!"
August 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Perfect pairing of fruit and fiction. 💥
The novel Uncontrolled Flight, which has a largely orange-and-gold cover, photographed on a flat surface with rows of orange-and-gold apricots underneath.
July 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Warmest congratulations on this hot Duncan day to Sarah Boon on her debut memoir, Meltdown. Sarah is signing books at Volume One until 1pm! ⚡📚🖋 @snowhydro.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social
Two white women standing side by side with bookshelves behind them. Left, Sarah Boon; right, Frances Peck holding Sarah's book, Meltdown.
July 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Can't wait to join veteran book editors Iva Cheung (@ivacheung.com‬) and Leslie Vermeer (@lavermeer.bsky.social‬) for a panel on editing your book or other long manuscript! July 14, 2pm (Pacific).

The online Writing Intensive is a super deal. $75 for a full pass.
www.bcwriters.ca/event-619191...
Orange and gold poster on a brick wall. The poster has a gold fountain pen nib at the top and says Writing Intensive: Revision Quest, online July 14-18.
July 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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What a treat to see @snowhydro.bsky.social and her debut memoir, Meltdown, featured in the summer issue of BC Bookworld!
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BC Bookworld article with, on the left, a photo of a brown-haired white woman wearing a toque and parka against a backdrop of mountains. On the right is the text, with a headline that says "Glaciers and grizzlies."
June 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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How did I not know this until now? #spelling #writers #editors
Oval-shaped white sign hanging on a white fridge, with dark lettering that says "stressed spelled backward is desserts."
May 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Writing the Breakout Novel remains my favourite book on writing craft. Can't wait to share it in this Zoom book club, May 15! ✍📚 Free for FBCW members; $10 for non-members.
www.bcwriters.ca/event-5963546
Bright green poster entitled Book Club for Writers, Federation of BC Writers. On the left, a round photo of Frances Peck, a middle-aged white woman with blond hair. On the right, the cover of Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass. The date along the top says Thursday, May 15, 7pm.
May 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I'm on the planning team for this one-day publishing conference, June 8, Shipyards district, North Vancouver. A first-rate roster of industry experts and authors will be there.
💥EARLY BIRD RATE ENDS MAY 1.💥
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-vancou...
Superimposed over a photo of a pier, the ocean, and the Lonsdale Quay building on the North Vancouver waterfront are the words Save the Date, The Vancouver International Publishing Conference, June 8, 2025, presented by The Self Publishing Agency.
April 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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May 8, 2-4pm, I’ll be at the Capilano Library in Edgemont Village (North Vancouver) for a book club featuring my novel THE BROKEN PLACES. Free drop-in event. No need to register. More here: nvdpl.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=174...
Against a background of ocean water is the cover of the novel The Broken Places on the left, and a photo of Frances Peck, a white woman with blonde hair, wearing a blue top and scarf, on the right.
April 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Head and shoulders photo of David Bowie in a tuxedo, with the Bluesky logo in upper righthand corner.
April 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Need to leave 2025 for a while? Plant yourself in 1914, when the mighty Empress of Ireland went down in the St. Lawrence River. @evelazarus.bsky.social has written a detailed, human account of what happened during a major Canadian event that has been largely forgotten.
Cover of the book "Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck," by Eve Lazarus. Against a cream-coloured background is the front half of a passenger ship sailing through layers of blue-grey letters and memos that look like ocean.
March 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Only 10 days left to enter the North Shore Writers' Association's annual writing contest. Low entry fees, talented judges, cash prizes, and publication of winning pieces in RIVULETS, a new literary anthology. Details: nswriters.org/annual-writi...
Green and white poster advertising the North Shore Writers' Association 29th annual writing contest. It contains text on the categories (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's and young adult), prize amounts, and other info that is available at the link in the main post.
March 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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In good news, I have seen Becoming Led Zeppelin and have achieved a state of rapture.
Poster for the documentary "Becoming Led Zeppelin," with the four long-haired male musicians playing and singing in the foreground.
February 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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First snow day this winter here in North Vancouver. Hours of books and tea ahead.
Grey and white garage with snow-laden shrubs, trees, and power lines all around.
February 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I love everything about this oven mitt, including the (endangered) comma after the interjection.
Beat-up oven mitt, orange with white spots, that has cartoon of girl looking through hoke sin slice of Swiss cheese. It says "Fu k, I love cheese."
January 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Gone, baby. Gone.
Brown and gold image of fireworks and party ribbons, with message that says "Happy New Year 2025" and "Bye, Twitter." Beside message is a screenshot that says "Your account is deactivated."
January 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Oops. Haven't read it yet and hope, bearing in mind author, there's a clever rationale for the comma.
Cover of novel "Surrender, Dorothy" by Meg Wolitzer, with a woman in turquoise sun hat in foreground, and two other urged figures in background, which is a beach.
January 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM