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Shona Cook
@shonacookto.bsky.social
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Publishing publicist. 🇨🇦

Posts deleted regularly as I'm not making the same mistake I made at the other place.
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alexanderchee.bsky.social
I do love that a year that began with Trump asking Canada if they wanted to be the fifty-first state ends with their Canadian cable gay hockey romance show pulling us along the floor like Ilya’s chair and we don’t want it to end—and it got tax-payer arts funding to boot.
December 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
it's got smaller because i've been eating it
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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dkmunro.bsky.social
If a kid visiting your house shows interest in a book on your shelves, the kid leaves with the book.

Those are the rules.
December 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
shonacookto.bsky.social
Not a single Canadian author on the Toronto Public Library’s “Most Borrowed” list for 2025.

blogs.tpl.ca/news-release...
Toronto Public Library unveils its list of the most borrowed books of 2025  |
blogs.tpl.ca
December 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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shonacookto.bsky.social
My history friends: the Canadian War Museum is hosting a celebration of historian Tim Cook’s life on Friday at 4 pm EST. In person in Ottawa and live-streaming on YouTube. Details👇

www.warmuseum.ca/events/dr-ti...
Dr. Tim Cook – A celebration of his life and legacy | Canadian War Museum
www.warmuseum.ca
December 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
shonacookto.bsky.social
My history friends: the Canadian War Museum is hosting a celebration of historian Tim Cook’s life on Friday at 4 pm EST. In person in Ottawa and live-streaming on YouTube. Details👇

www.warmuseum.ca/events/dr-ti...
Dr. Tim Cook – A celebration of his life and legacy | Canadian War Museum
www.warmuseum.ca
December 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
shonacookto.bsky.social
If you saw @healey.bsky.social’s THE MASTER PLAN, don’t miss ROGERS V. ROGERS.
If you missed THE MASTER PLAN, don’t miss ROGERS V. ROGERS. At #CrowsTheatre to Jan 17
Stage set with a boardroom table and eight chairs, covered by red lighting. A red video screen with white text reading ROGERS V ROGERS
December 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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victoriastrauss.com
New extortion scam email going round (this was received via a writer's website contact form). I've seen a number of these recently but without the money demand; the translation angle is also a new one
Name: Jeff Email: jeffersonzonon@proton.me Subject: Found your work on file sharing channels Message: Hey Michelle, how are you? So here’s something interesting—I found your work floating around online. Full PDFs. Multiple sites. No paywall, no control, no credit. Just… there. And it hit me: if it’s already leaking like that, your value is slipping faster than you think. And then I realized something else. I can push it even further. I can run your entire catalog through my translation app—takes about thirty minutes per language—and release your work across ten different markets without breaking a sweat. No permission, no courtesy, just pure distribution. Imagine your creations scattered everywhere, read by thousands… yet worth absolutely nothing to you. And honestly? I don’t want that. I’d rather not be the reason your career drops through the floor. That doesn’t help either of us. So here’s my offer: get in touch with me. Talk to me. Stop me from releasing these translations before they hit every file-sharing site and social feed out there. It’s simple. Reach out. Have 500$ —yes, that’s all. A small price to keep the value of your life’s work from dissolving overnight. But don’t wait too long. Silence from you just means I keep translating. And once they’re out, they’re out forever. You have 5 days. Your move
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM