January-March 2014 News & Events

My first review for 2014, by Susan Fish in the Guelph Mercury, ended with these lovely words, “Muse is a treat to read and would be a terrific book for a book club to feast upon”. In February, I had great fun being guest author at my first Muse book club and look forward to being invited to visit other Vancouver clubs reading Muse or Conceit. You can get in touch via my contact page; if you live outside Vancouver, I can skype you. To make Muse even more yummy for book clubs, Doubleday will be bringing out a smaller paperback, which will be published May 27, 2014. Less expensive than the French flap edition, the smaller paperback will have very readable print and a spiffed-up cover with a gold foil title plate. I’m also looking forward to the French edition of Muse, which will be published within the next year. The official announcement appeared on Quill & Quire on December 17: “Éditions Hurtubise has acquired world French-language rights to Mary Novik’s novel Muse. Ron Eckel arranged the deal on behalf of Dean Cooke of The Cooke Agency.”