Book Club Member Creations
Our book club members all have a love of reading. Some also have bookish creations which we're pleased to spotlight.
Book club member, Kimberley Palsat co-founded an independent publishing press. Orbis Tertius Press is a Canadian book publisher of innovative & challenging works. They are a platform for international writers, past & present, to showcase their abilities; that is why they consider submissions of all lengths. The Marianas Trench by Ryan Madej is one of their novels available here via Amazon in Canada & here internationally through Lulu.
To find out more about this indie press or be considered for publication, check out the Orbis Tertius Press web site.
Book club member, Karen Van Drie, is on the board of a new grassroots start-up of publishers, translators, and librarians. It's called the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative. Their goal is to get more of the world's literature into English-language libraries. Currently, only 3% of what is published in English every year has been translated from another language. Karen has suggested a goal to school libraries worldwide to have two books from every country in the world. That's less than 400 books. Completely doable!
In 2019, the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative announced its inaugural translated young adult award. This prize continues every year. See past honorees & next year’s prize here, or follow the initiative’s hashtag across social media: #GlobalLiteratureinLibrariesInitiative.
Book club member, Jo Jackson has written a gripping tale using her two-year stint in Egypt to pull you deep into a story set in Cairo.
A secret held, a fear unspoken. Green gates and a flame tree – just as her mother described. The bolt screeches back…
It is 2011. Egypt is in the grip of the Arab Spring as journalist Maha Rhodes flies to Cairo. Born in Egypt, but raised in England, Maha no longer knows who she is. Finding out becomes important. Events draw her into the political mayhem. She experiences the passion and violence of the revolution and is confronted by her own naivety. How will her life be changed as a web of lies and deceit unfolds?
Too Loud a Silence will take you to Egypt. A beautiful, poignant and, at times, brutal story based on real events.