Now tweeting like a crazy little bird!

Now tweeting as often as I can think of something interesting to say @missymarston

Lighting up the blogosphere, one crush at a time

I am delighted to be blogging for the National Post Afterword this week.

It started this way, with literary pretensions: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/06/25/missy-marston-missy-loves-margaret/



Then, very quickly, it became more like this: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/06/26/missy-marston-missy-loves-donald/



And then this started happening: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/06/27/missy-marston-missy-loves-aliens/





Then, as usual, it came to this: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/06/28/missy-marston-missy-loves-your-mama/

Love up your local bookstore on June 16th!

Collected Works Bookstore in Ottawa was born the same year as my youngest son -- I went into labour there. True story. The store was the first baby of my dear friends, Craig Poile and Christopher Smith. I was stunned by their resourcefulness and bravery. Entrepreneurs!

Fifteen years later it is as though it has always been there. It is part of the neighbourhood. People come for coffee, authors read, kids come for story-time. It lives!

This Saturday, June 16th, people will be gathering in bookstores accross North America for Save the Bookstores Day! to show their love for neighbourhood bricks and mortar bookstores. I will be at Collected Works with a dozen other local authors, reading, signing and shopping.

Come see us and buy books!

 http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/315625078520971/

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/

 http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/365946566789650/