Love that can be seen from space

What a beautiful night! The launch party for The Love Monster was everything anyone could have hoped for. Beautiful weather, a great venue packed with beautiful humans. Tears, kisses, flowers, drinks. Book sales!

Thanks to Raw Sugar Cafe and Collected Works book store and every single person who attended. And thanks to Dan Ziemkievicz who took these magic pictures.

"As the story gets weirder, it becomes both funnier and unexpectedly moving." - The Globe and (frigging) Mail!

It is the first day of the long weekend. The sun is shining, the house is quiet. Except angels are singing. True story. Missy Marston from Iroquois, Ontario, who has written a novel about green aliens saving a woman named Margaret H. Atwood, is in the The Globe and Mail. Page R13. There is a picture of me, smiling. The caption beneath says: "Marston: weird, funny, moving." I would happily wear that T-shirt.

Here is a link to Jim Bartley's review in this morning's paper. Thanks, Universe.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/the-love-monster-by-missy-marston/article2436905/

Monster loves bookgaga!

What a nice Mother's Day present! Vicki Ziegler says "... everything about The Love Monster makes me smile." and posted the section, Everyone carries a kernel of sadness as her poem of the day:
 http://twitter.com/#!/bookgaga/status/201670338940116993

Thanks, bookgaga!

Look out, Montreal and Kingston!

Get ready: Daniel Griffin and I are coming to read at Paragraphe in Montreal on May 15th and A Novel Idea in Kingston on May 17th. Please come if you can!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1257201580#!/events/167723503354641/

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book launch! book LAUNCH! BOOK LAUNCH!

It will be the best Wednesday night ever in the history of Ottawa. For me, anyway.

Please come help celebrate the launch of The Love Monster at Raw Sugar, 692 Somerset West on May 23rd at 7pm. With any luck, there will be reading, laughing and all around good times. There will certainly be drinks.

http://www.facebook.com/events/329565950445981/#!/events/329565950445981/

Collected Works will sell books: http://www.collected-works.com/