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2010 Click here for photos and SPiN writing group highlights
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| February 27, 2010 |
Inspiration for writing Conceit, in The Guardian, Review section, p.19 print edition, along with a photo of John Donne's effigy. Many thanks to Alice Owen in England for spotting this! Also at The Guardian's Book Blog, February 22, 2010. |
January 29, 2010
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A very welcome review of Conceit by Mirella Patzer at Historical Novel Review blogspot. |
| January 5, 2010 |
"The Writing Life" by June Hutton at Eric Forbes's Book Addict's Guide to Good Books is a wide-ranging, intriguing piece on her own writing and other Canadian novels she admires. June is one of the three novelists in my writing group, www.spinwrites.com |
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Winter
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When the Winter 2009-10 issue of Be magazine appears, it will include Joe Wiebe's article on the SPiN writing group (Mary Novik, Jen Sookfong Lee, and June Hutton) with a photo by Cory Dawson.
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| January 1, 2010 |
Conceit is available as a Kindle edition at Amazon.com. |
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2009
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November 17, 2009
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In her Tuesday essay at The Globe and Mail on-line, Joan Clark calls Conceit and Annabel Lyon's The Golden Mean "breakthrough" books. This becomes the opening salvo at Steven Beattlie's "The Historical Fiction Rant" at That Shakespearean Rag. |
| November 7, 2009 |
Terri Baker presents her paper, "Into the Spaces Left by Men: Mary Novik's Womanly Vision in Conceit," at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco. |
| September 4, 2009 |
My guest post, "Telling Time by Flowers," is up at wondersandmarvels.com |
| July 2009 |
Theresa Rae Baker receives her MA degree for "Renaissance Parables of Duplicity in Vanora Bennett's Portrait of an Unknown Woman and Mary Novik's Conceit." |
| July 2009 |
Q&A with Mary Novik at Powell's Books. |
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June 1, 2009
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Conceit is now available from the Random House website as an e-book. You can also browse and search Conceit on-line. |
| May 13, 2009 |
Holly Faith Nelson includes Conceit in her roundup on Donne in Years' Work in English Studies, Vol. 88 (Oxford University Press, 2009). |
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May 2, 2009
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"Strength in Numbers: A Powerhouse Writing Group", a profile of our writing group, SPiN, in the Vancouver Sun, p. C6. |
| April 22, 2009 |
"From Workshop to Writing Group," my blog on the SPiN Writing Group at the Writers' Trust Blogspot. |
| April 2009 |
"That Dickensian Quality," a review of Conceit at goodreads.com by Shannon, followed by reviews and comments by other Goodreads members. |
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April 21, 2009
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"Workshop with Mary Novik at VPL," Heidi Greco reports on a fun night at her blog Out on the Big Limb. |
| April 4, 2009 |
Review of Conceit by Aurillia at her blog, "I'll Have My Cake and Eat Yours Too." |
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March 14, 2009
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"Through a Glass Darkly," review of Conceit by Linda Rogers, The Pacific Rim Review of Books, No. 10 (Fall/Winter 2009), p. 10. |
| March 14, 2009 |
Alan Bradley, author of Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, has been making lovely comments about Conceit at various places, including The National Post blog today. |
| March 13, 2009 |
"Conceit by Mary Novik," review by Christine Bode at her blog, Scully Love. |
| March 8, 2009 |
"Now We Three Are Six," about our SPiN wriiting group, BC Book World, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring 2009), p. 33. It's on p. 11 of this on-line copy. |
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February 24, 2009
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"A Tour of the Maritimes", my blog about my trip to the Atlantic, is up at the Insiders' Blog at BookLounge.ca. Here is Part 1, followed by Part 2. |
| February 24, 2009 |
"Raising gems, together: How three Canadian writers banded together to help each other bring their first novels into the world", by June Hutton, Jen Sookfong Lee, and Mary Novik, Tuesday Essay, The Globe and Mail on-line. Click here for more about our writing group, SPiN. |
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February 19, 2009
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My second novel, Muse, set in 14th-century Avignon, has sold to Doubleday Canada. Announcement in Quill & Quire. |
| February 18, 2009 |
"Writing Group Makes Good," article on SPiN writing group by Sarah Treleaven in Quill & Quire, March 2009, p. 7. |
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February 16, 2009
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Edward O'Connor, "The Poet and His Headstrong Daughter", review of Conceit in The Fiddlehead, No. 238 (Winter 2009), pp. 98-100. |
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February 12, 2009
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Enter the draw to win Conceit, the book of the week at Wonders and Marvels, and read my guest blog, An Extraordinary Love Story. |
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January 26, 2009
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"It Was Treason to Give Away Something That Belonged to Me," review of Conceit by Kenneth MacKendrick at www.chapters.indigo.ca. |
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January 17, 2009
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"A Delicious Banquet of a Book", review of Conceit by Sylvie Fitzgerald in The Telegraph-Journal (Canada East), p. G6. |
| January 8, 2009 |
"About the Novel Conceit", review by Anne Compton, News@UNB. |
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January 1, 2009
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The paperback of Conceit has gone into a third printing. |
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2008
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| December 2008 |
Abebooks has announced its Canadian Books of the Year -- The Top Ten Hottest New Canadian Books for 2008 -- and Conceit is on the list!
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| December 2008 |
Review of Conceit by Jeanne Shami, Wascana Review, Vol. 41, Nos. 1&2 (2006 [2008]), pp. 131-138. A long, authoritative essay on Conceit, W;t, The Calligrapher, and the "voiceprint" of John Donne. |
| December 4, 2008 |
Conceit is included in "The Ten Best Historical Novels I Read This Year" by Margaret Donsbach at HistoricalNovels.info. She reviews Conceit here. |
| November 25, 2008 |
My writing partner, Jen Sookfong Lee, has been chosen as one of the panelists for Canada Reads for 2009. She'll be championing Fruit by Brian Francis. |
| November 19, 2008 |
I talk from my Vancouver home about the inspiration for Conceit on my first YouTube video. |
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November 15, 2008
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At My Book Reviews, Samia calls Conceit "engrossing and beautifully written" and at The Written World, Kailana compares it to other novels with eccentric female characters. |
| October 29, 2008 |
Sandra Gulland interviews Mary Novik as her first guest at her impressive historical research blog, Baroque Explorations. |
| September 9, 2008 |
Jared Bland interviews Mary Novik in his Five Questions series for The Shelf on The Walrus Blogs. |
| Fall 2008 |
Conceit is included in "Cultural Engagements with John Donne," a graduate course taught by Brent Nelson at the University of Saskatchewan and simultaneously by Jeanne Shami at the University of Regina. |
| September 2008 |
Join the Celebration of John Donne by reading the Donne quotes and posting your favourites at Mary Novik's Facebook Wall. |
| August 27, 2008 |
An exposé about the contents of my big slouchy bag is up at Shawna Lemay's blog, The Capacious Hold-All. |
| August 14, 2008 |
Only two weeks after publication, the paperback of Conceit has gone into a second printing! |
| August 2008 |
Lara Hinchberger interviews Mary Novik in a podcast on the Chapters website (at the bottom of the page). |
| Aug 2, 2008 |
Sheryl MacKay's conversation with Mary Novik on North by Northwest, CBC Radio One. |
| July 30, 2008 |
Merlin posts an Author Spotlight on Mary Novik at Chapters On-line Community. |
| July 29, 2008 |
The gorgeous new Anchor Canada paperback of Conceit arrives in bookstores! |
| July 15, 2008 |
monnibo reviews Conceit at her blog, Monniblog. |
| June 19, 2008 |
My office bares all on Writers' Rooms page at the Vancouver International Writers' Festival. |
| May 2008 |
Review of Conceit in Historical Novels Review (U.K.), Issue 44, p. 26. |
| April 26, 2008 |
At the BC Book Prizes gala, Mary Novik's Conceit was awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for 2008. See photos of the gala, the list of winners of the BC Book Prizes, the blog by Gail Anderson-Dargatz, the Vancouver Sun report, The Peak story, and the CBC Arts story. |
| April 25, 2008 |
Caroline Skelton awards her own tongue-in-cheek prizes--including the "I can smell the cobblestones award" and the "bad sex award"-- to the five finalists for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (The North Shore News, p. 19). |
| April 19, 2008 |
We've now touched down from our flight back to Vancouver after touring communities along the Yellowhead Highway from Prince Rupert to Prince George, and back! There's a great authors' blog and a photo album from the tour, and local coverage can be found in The Prince Rupert Daily News, April 11, 2008; The Prince George Citizen ("Authors Reach out to Students", April 18, 2008), and other northern papers. |
| April 2008 |
Conceit is Janet Nichol's pick in "Room Recommends", Room, Vol 31, No. 4, p. 101. |
| April 10, 2008 |
CS Richardson wins an honourable mention from the Alcuin Society for the design of Conceit. See three video clips in which Richardson talks about book design here. |
| March 27, 2008 |
"Instructors up for Book Prizes," Janaya Fuller-Evans, The Voice, p. 3. |
| March 6, 2008 |
Conceit is a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. See BC Book Prizes website for details about the events leading up to the prize ceremony on April 26 and the tour I'd be on of Northern BC April 13-18. Blogged by Gail Anderson-Dargatz and Rather Be Reading. |
| Spring 2008 |
Conceit reviewed in Trek, UBC Alumni magazine, p. 34. |
| January 14, 2008 |
Mary Novik is interviewed by Nancy Lee for Booming Ground in the University of BC's Creative Writing program. |
| January 1, 2008 |
Mary Soderstrom announces on her blog Recreating Eden on January 1, 2008, and again on April 2, 2008, that "Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes . . . and Mary Novik's Conceit were the two best Canadian novels I read last year." |
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2007
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| December 21, 2007 |
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Inkslinger admires Conceit in spite of herself in a review at her blog The Overdecorated Bookcase. |
| December 2007 |
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Mary Novik reads from Conceit and talks about the inspiration for the novel in two sound files at Authors Aloud. |
| December 2, 2007 |
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Gail Anderson-Dargatz chooses Mary Novik's Conceit as the book that she is championing for Fall 2007 in The Ottawa Citizen and other periodicals. |
| December 1, 2007 |
Conceit is chosen by The Globe and Mail as one of its Best Books of 2007, p. D6. |
| December 2007 |
Quill & Quire chooses Conceit as one of its Books of the Year for 2007. |
| November 25, 2007 |
Another great review of Conceit at a blog, this time by Cipriano at BookPuddle. |
| November 17, 2007 |
John Miedema reviews Conceit on the blog at his Slow Reading website. |
| October 2007 |
Books in Canada ranks Conceit as #2 on their Top 15 Bestselling First Novels list, right after Ami McKay's The Birth House. |
| October 21, 2007 |
"Poetry and Religion Mix with Hypochondria in 17th Century", review of Conceit in The Times Colonist (Victoria). |
| October 17, 2007 |
Andrea Penney interviews Mary Novik in A Conversation about Conceit on Take 5, CIUT 89.5 FM Toronto. |
| October 2007 |
Conceit is the featured book at Bookclubs.ca Resources include a bookclub guide and an interview (Q&A) and an audio interview with editor Lara Hinchberger. |
| Fall 2007 |
"17th-century Immersion: Donne & Daughter," by Gudrun Will, Vancouver Review, No. 15, p. 25. |
| October 14, 2007 |
"When Passion Raged: Novel Charts Complex Relationship Between Poet John Donne and Daughter," by Joe Wiebe, The Edmonton Journal. |
| October 13, 2007 |
"A New View of John Donne: Novel Mixes History, Grotesque Fantasy," by Pat Donnelly, The Montreal Gazette, Books Section, p. 14 |
| September 18, 2007 |
"Two Vancouver Writers on Giller list," by Rebecca Wigod, The Vancouver Sun. |
| September 17, 2007 |
The nominees for the Scotiabank Giller Prize for 2007 were announced, and Conceit was on the list! A Quill & Quire article links to reviews of the books. |
| September 16, 2007 |
Review of Conceit by Kathryne Kouk in What's on Winnipeg. |
| September 10, 2007 |
Discussion thread on Conceit begins in the Booklounge.ca group on Facebook. |
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September 8, 2007
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"Mary Novik's Conceit: A Magnificent Novel of 17th-century London. Donne, Pepys, Walton--and you are there," review by Jim Bartley, Globe & Mail, pp. D1, 8, 25. |
| September 7, 2007 |
Profile of Mary Novik, "Passion Inspires Conceit," by Caroline Skelton, North Shore News, pp. 15-16. |
| September 1, 2007 |
Virtual launch of Mary Novik's Conceit and Gail Anderson-Dargatz's Turtle Valley at Gail Anderson-Dargatz's website. |
| September 1, 2007 |
"A Passion Out of Time," review of Conceit by Joe Wiebe, The Vancouver Sun, p. C10. |
| September 1, 2007 |
Mary Novik's debut novel Conceit published by Doubleday Canada. |
| August 28, 2007 |
Department of Eating My Words: Good Books Division, comment on Conceit at Mary Soderstrom's blog, "Recreating Eden". |
| August 20, 2007 |
Starred review of Conceit in Quill & Quire by Mary Soderstrom, September 2007, p. 59. |
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Highlights from the SPiN Writing Group
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| January 2010 |
Be magazine (Winter 2009-10) will include Joe Wiebe's article on the SPiN writing group (Mary Novik, Jen Sookfong Lee, and June Hutton) with a full-page photo of SPiN by Cory Dawson.
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| April 22, 2009 |
"From Workshop to Writing Group," Mary Novik's blog on the SPiN writing group at the Writers' Trust Blogspot. |
| Spring 2009 |
"Now We Three Are Six," about our SPiN writing group, BC Book World, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring 2009), p. 33. It's on p. 11 of this on-line copy. |
| May 2, 2009 |
"Strength in Numbers: A Powerhouse Writing Group," a profile of our writing group, SPiN, in the Vancouver Sun, p. C6. |
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March 2009
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"Writing Group Makes Good," article on SPiN writing group by Sarah Treleaven in Quill & Quire, March 2009, p. 7. |
| February 24, 2009 |
"Raising gems, together: How three Canadian writers banded together to help each other bring their first novels into the world", by June Hutton, Jen Sookfong Lee, and Mary Novik, Tuesday Essay, The Globe and Mail on-line.
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| June 9, 2007 |
"The spin women are writing pals--for life" Column on SPiN writing group by Cheri Hanson, The Vancouver Sun, p. C8.
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| March 10, 2007 |
Listen to Mary Novik, Jen Sookfong Lee, and June Hutton in a conversation with Sheryl MacKay on North by Northwest, CBC Radio One |
| May 27, 2006 |
"The New Writing Groups: More Writing, Less Merlot" Article on SPiN by Cheri Hanson, The Vancouver Sun, p. C10. |
| June 19, 2003 |
"Summer Inspiration for Literary Aspiration" SPiN profiled in article by John Burns, The Georgia Straight, p. 29. |
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