Today, I wrote to @PascaleStOnge_ & @FP_Champagne to tell them that that Canadian creators and publishers are counting on them to fix the Copyright Act & stop great Canadian content from disappearing. Please join me! #cdnpoli https://www.ivaluecanadianstories.ca/creators.php
I want to acknowledge the artist who produced the cover for my latest book, the YA novel Into the Wind (published by Acorn Press and distributed by Nimbus Publishing).
That artist is Lio Lo, who lives in Nova Scotia after immigrating to Canada from Taiwan. She read the original manuscript and came up with a painting to depict the book’s opening scene. That artwork was only slightly modified to become the cover of the book.
Le Courrier de la Nouvelle-Écosse, the French-language paper for Nova Scotia, has reprinted the story originally published by the PEI newspaper, La Voix acadienne.
Un grand merci à ces deux journaux.
Here is the link.
Here is the article about my latest book prepared by Jacinthe Laforest for the Sept. 20, 2023 issue of the PEI’s French-language paper, La Voix acadienne.
Back on August 21, 2023, I spoke with Nathalie Geddry of Radio-Canada concerning my latest book, Into the Wind (Acorn Press, distributed by Nimbus Publishing.) Here is a link to that 14-minute conversation in French.
I have tended to resist using the word “retired” ever since I stepped away from Parks Canada 14 years ago, in the fall of 2009.
That is because I try to stay busy working on a variety of non-Parks exhibits. And writing books. Not every day, I suppose, but often enough.
Yesterday, I wanted to see if I had really been as busy as I imagined. I remembered that on my website (ajbjohnston.com) there was a list of different exhibits I had worked on ever since 2009. I took a photo, which is posted below.
It looks like I have had something to do with exhibits in 14 different museums / historic sites over the past 14 years. That’s not too bad, I think.
Because over that same 14 years I have also published six novels and five books of history.
Sure, I could probably have done more with my time, but still.
Here’s hoping my time (and output) is not quite done yet. There’s still the fourth and final Thomas Pichon novel to complete.
And who knows what else.