Lisa Brideau
@lisabrideau.bsky.social
author of ADRIFT (out now), climate change policy nerd, weaver, ballroom dancer, cookie addict. In Vancouver. www.lisabrideau.com
When this time of year rolls around I think a lot about the challenge of book discoverability, how a small number of books get noticed relative to the tens of thousands that will come each year. I think of the awards that nominate the same titles. The best-of lists with mostly the same titles. 1/?
December 10, 2025 at 4:53 AM
When this time of year rolls around I think a lot about the challenge of book discoverability, how a small number of books get noticed relative to the tens of thousands that will come each year. I think of the awards that nominate the same titles. The best-of lists with mostly the same titles. 1/?
I don't know what happened, but sales of the paperback version of my book spiked to surprising levels over the past few weeks (very high for a book that came out in 2023!) - so that is a lovely pre-holiday gift to me. Thank you mysterious universe and book-buyers!!! #Adrift
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I don't know what happened, but sales of the paperback version of my book spiked to surprising levels over the past few weeks (very high for a book that came out in 2023!) - so that is a lovely pre-holiday gift to me. Thank you mysterious universe and book-buyers!!! #Adrift
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#bcbuylocal week kicks off today, and you can't go wrong with a book! Shop at indie bookstores because when you support local $63 out of every $100 goes back to BC compared to $14 from multinationals. Want to shop online? No problem, most local bookstores can accommodate: bit.ly/47BVJL1
December 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
#bcbuylocal week kicks off today, and you can't go wrong with a book! Shop at indie bookstores because when you support local $63 out of every $100 goes back to BC compared to $14 from multinationals. Want to shop online? No problem, most local bookstores can accommodate: bit.ly/47BVJL1
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Today's an excellent day to pre-order my poetry chap, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL, for the cool uncle or auntie in your life, and support a small but mighty press @gameoverbooks.bsky.social
www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/chil...
www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/chil...
November 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Today's an excellent day to pre-order my poetry chap, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL, for the cool uncle or auntie in your life, and support a small but mighty press @gameoverbooks.bsky.social
www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/chil...
www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/chil...
For folks who nominate short stories for awards in the sci-fi realms: I published my first ever short story in 2025 at Diabolical Plots! 🥳. So... I hope you'll... consider it?
(I know not how these things work, clearly): diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
Happy award nominating!?
(I know not how these things work, clearly): diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
Happy award nominating!?
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 AM
For folks who nominate short stories for awards in the sci-fi realms: I published my first ever short story in 2025 at Diabolical Plots! 🥳. So... I hope you'll... consider it?
(I know not how these things work, clearly): diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
Happy award nominating!?
(I know not how these things work, clearly): diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
Happy award nominating!?
I have to share this amazing plant I saw on my walk today. Google says it is a "harlequin glorybower (Clerodendrum trichotomum), also known as the peanut butter tree." Does anyone know about these???
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I have to share this amazing plant I saw on my walk today. Google says it is a "harlequin glorybower (Clerodendrum trichotomum), also known as the peanut butter tree." Does anyone know about these???
November was supposed to be my all-free-time-is-spent-writing month but it started with a dinner with friends (long overdue, v hard to schedule), and I have 2 speaking gigs I'm excited about, & another big non-writing project has poked its head into life with some urgency. But I did write tonight!
a cat laying on an lg laptop keyboard
Alt: a cat laying on an lg laptop keyboard "Writing"
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November 4, 2025 at 5:22 AM
November was supposed to be my all-free-time-is-spent-writing month but it started with a dinner with friends (long overdue, v hard to schedule), and I have 2 speaking gigs I'm excited about, & another big non-writing project has poked its head into life with some urgency. But I did write tonight!
Got my COVID and flu shots on Friday (free). Consider this a reminder in your timeline to go book yours before all the bugs start circulating for winter.
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Got my COVID and flu shots on Friday (free). Consider this a reminder in your timeline to go book yours before all the bugs start circulating for winter.
I just made some very exciting (to me) 2026 plans!!!
I registered for the Level 1 Bookbinding course with the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artist Guild. Hope to connect with other bookbinding nerds along the way - please wave if that's you!
I registered for the Level 1 Bookbinding course with the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artist Guild. Hope to connect with other bookbinding nerds along the way - please wave if that's you!
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I just made some very exciting (to me) 2026 plans!!!
I registered for the Level 1 Bookbinding course with the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artist Guild. Hope to connect with other bookbinding nerds along the way - please wave if that's you!
I registered for the Level 1 Bookbinding course with the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artist Guild. Hope to connect with other bookbinding nerds along the way - please wave if that's you!
I only feel capable of posting fall vibes photos right now.
October 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I only feel capable of posting fall vibes photos right now.
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On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT.
The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...
The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT.
The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...
The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...
I'm visiting my hometown and just had a lovely time with a book club at the Cole Harbour Library talking about Adrift and climate change. I love book clubs so much, they have all been so thoughtful and kind in their discussions of Adrift.
Love love love these conversations!
(ALSO MY DAD CAME! )
Love love love these conversations!
(ALSO MY DAD CAME! )
October 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I'm visiting my hometown and just had a lovely time with a book club at the Cole Harbour Library talking about Adrift and climate change. I love book clubs so much, they have all been so thoughtful and kind in their discussions of Adrift.
Love love love these conversations!
(ALSO MY DAD CAME! )
Love love love these conversations!
(ALSO MY DAD CAME! )
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Just a couple of seats left in my Saturday workshop at this Salt Spring Island festival. www.eventbrite.ca/e/paper-cove...?
October 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just a couple of seats left in my Saturday workshop at this Salt Spring Island festival. www.eventbrite.ca/e/paper-cove...?
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Hey everyone!! I am starting a chapbook press!!!
rev your engines and write your pitch letters and send them off at paperbillpress.ca!
We are as expansive as a chapbook press can be!! now taking fiction! poetry! non-fiction! criticism! hybrid! You write it? we want it!!
rev your engines and write your pitch letters and send them off at paperbillpress.ca!
We are as expansive as a chapbook press can be!! now taking fiction! poetry! non-fiction! criticism! hybrid! You write it? we want it!!
October 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Hey everyone!! I am starting a chapbook press!!!
rev your engines and write your pitch letters and send them off at paperbillpress.ca!
We are as expansive as a chapbook press can be!! now taking fiction! poetry! non-fiction! criticism! hybrid! You write it? we want it!!
rev your engines and write your pitch letters and send them off at paperbillpress.ca!
We are as expansive as a chapbook press can be!! now taking fiction! poetry! non-fiction! criticism! hybrid! You write it? we want it!!
Reposted by Lisa Brideau
Are in planning to be in North Vancouver tomorrow night? So am I! I'll be giving a talk and showing off some photos from my new book Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck. It's at Lynn Valley Library on Lynn Valley Road at 6:30 pm evelazarus.com/book/beneath...
September 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Are in planning to be in North Vancouver tomorrow night? So am I! I'll be giving a talk and showing off some photos from my new book Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck. It's at Lynn Valley Library on Lynn Valley Road at 6:30 pm evelazarus.com/book/beneath...
I'm old. Us old people write blog posts.
Here's one I posted recently about creativity, learning, and art residencies: www.lisabrideau.com/post/writing...
Here's one I posted recently about creativity, learning, and art residencies: www.lisabrideau.com/post/writing...
Writing and Learning
This post is about learning. And I'm going to front load an end result of learning: the first short story I ever sold is now available to read on Diabolical Plots! Please be as excited as I am about t...
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September 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I'm old. Us old people write blog posts.
Here's one I posted recently about creativity, learning, and art residencies: www.lisabrideau.com/post/writing...
Here's one I posted recently about creativity, learning, and art residencies: www.lisabrideau.com/post/writing...
Potluck has been a regular caterer of events in my life in Vancouver - if you can support this amazing social enterprise, please do! And a friendly reminder that if you organize catering for your org/event, find a social enterprise or Indigenous company to direct your $$ to.
This DTES non-profit that helps people get jobs is on the brink of closing. Here's how you can help
This DTES non-profit that helps people get jobs is on the brink of closing. Here's how you can help
To the people who work there, the Potluck Café Society is more than a paycheque; it is a lifeline.
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September 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Potluck has been a regular caterer of events in my life in Vancouver - if you can support this amazing social enterprise, please do! And a friendly reminder that if you organize catering for your org/event, find a social enterprise or Indigenous company to direct your $$ to.
Oof, this article, so much truth about publishing challenges that exist today. This is a must read. thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it
thewalrus.ca
September 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Oof, this article, so much truth about publishing challenges that exist today. This is a must read. thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
Got on stage last night and read the opening of the novel I'm currently working on. And realized mid-read that it's kind of gory. (By "kind of", I mean "very".) Fortunately, there is a lot of crossover between sci-fi and horror so the audience wasn't traumatized (I don't think).
September 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Got on stage last night and read the opening of the novel I'm currently working on. And realized mid-read that it's kind of gory. (By "kind of", I mean "very".) Fortunately, there is a lot of crossover between sci-fi and horror so the audience wasn't traumatized (I don't think).
I'll be in Halifax/Dartmouth in Oct for the first time since my debut novel came out!
-> I'd love to meet folks & talk about climate fiction, climate reality, writing, amnesia, all the things!
Oct 8: Library book club, Oct 9: Halifax Gals & Pals book club, Oct 11: book signing at Indigo Dartmouth!
-> I'd love to meet folks & talk about climate fiction, climate reality, writing, amnesia, all the things!
Oct 8: Library book club, Oct 9: Halifax Gals & Pals book club, Oct 11: book signing at Indigo Dartmouth!
September 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'll be in Halifax/Dartmouth in Oct for the first time since my debut novel came out!
-> I'd love to meet folks & talk about climate fiction, climate reality, writing, amnesia, all the things!
Oct 8: Library book club, Oct 9: Halifax Gals & Pals book club, Oct 11: book signing at Indigo Dartmouth!
-> I'd love to meet folks & talk about climate fiction, climate reality, writing, amnesia, all the things!
Oct 8: Library book club, Oct 9: Halifax Gals & Pals book club, Oct 11: book signing at Indigo Dartmouth!
I'll be in Halifax/Dartmouth in October - my first time home since my book was published! I have 1 day left where I could fit in a book club meeting if anyone is part of a club that wants to read Adrift & have me pop by. Send me a message/email by Sept 25th if this might be your book club!
September 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I'll be in Halifax/Dartmouth in October - my first time home since my book was published! I have 1 day left where I could fit in a book club meeting if anyone is part of a club that wants to read Adrift & have me pop by. Send me a message/email by Sept 25th if this might be your book club!
I'm relatively new to writing short stories, having always gone in for big novel projects. So when I sent my first story out on submission, it was mostly because seeking rejection is a hobby for me & it costs nothing to take a shot & you never know what might hit. Still, imagine my surprise...(1/?)
September 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I'm relatively new to writing short stories, having always gone in for big novel projects. So when I sent my first story out on submission, it was mostly because seeking rejection is a hobby for me & it costs nothing to take a shot & you never know what might hit. Still, imagine my surprise...(1/?)
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I'm VERY VERY excited to share that the first short story I ever sold is now available to read on Diabolical Plots:
"The Glorious Pursuit of Nominal"
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
🤖
Please read & enjoy!
(Does Bluesky show posts with links? Comment with a robot emoji if you see this?)
"The Glorious Pursuit of Nominal"
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
🤖
Please read & enjoy!
(Does Bluesky show posts with links? Comment with a robot emoji if you see this?)
September 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I'm VERY VERY excited to share that the first short story I ever sold is now available to read on Diabolical Plots:
"The Glorious Pursuit of Nominal"
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
🤖
Please read & enjoy!
(Does Bluesky show posts with links? Comment with a robot emoji if you see this?)
"The Glorious Pursuit of Nominal"
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
🤖
Please read & enjoy!
(Does Bluesky show posts with links? Comment with a robot emoji if you see this?)
I'm VERY VERY excited to share that the first short story I ever sold is now available to read on Diabolical Plots:
"The Glorious Pursuit of Nominal"
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
🤖
Please read & enjoy!
(Does Bluesky show posts with links? Comment with a robot emoji if you see this?)
"The Glorious Pursuit of Nominal"
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
🤖
Please read & enjoy!
(Does Bluesky show posts with links? Comment with a robot emoji if you see this?)
September 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I'm VERY VERY excited to share that the first short story I ever sold is now available to read on Diabolical Plots:
"The Glorious Pursuit of Nominal"
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
🤖
Please read & enjoy!
(Does Bluesky show posts with links? Comment with a robot emoji if you see this?)
"The Glorious Pursuit of Nominal"
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
🤖
Please read & enjoy!
(Does Bluesky show posts with links? Comment with a robot emoji if you see this?)
I was at this event, it was awesome! You may have missed the event but the book is apparently an instant NYT bestseller, so I think you'll be seeing it around! A novella about leftover robots starting a noodle restaurant, but really about so much more. Thanks to Iron Dog Books for hosting!
Vancouver, BC! I am so excited to be at Iron Dog Books tonight, 8/12, talking about Automatic Noodle with the brilliant @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social and YOU. 7pm!! Doors at 6:30!! There will be noodles, robots, and brief, joyful moments of freedom from tyranny. irondogbooks.com/events/30790...
Book Launch: Automatic Noodle with Author Annalee Newitz | Iron Dog Books
Indigenous-owned bookshop serving metro Vancouver
irondogbooks.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I was at this event, it was awesome! You may have missed the event but the book is apparently an instant NYT bestseller, so I think you'll be seeing it around! A novella about leftover robots starting a noodle restaurant, but really about so much more. Thanks to Iron Dog Books for hosting!