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Huge congratulations to Tracey Lindberg and George Littlechild on being named a finalist for the 2026 Indigenous Voices Awards for published prose AND shortlisted for the 2026 Danuta Gleed Literary Award with THE CREE WORD FOR LOVE! 🎉

Hard to believe we're under two weeks away from the release of COUNTY ROAD SIX (@doubledayca ), my new novel about the wilds and wildlings of North Simcoe County. There are some exciting events and appearances on the way, so keep an eye out in the coming days, weeks, and months. I'm honoured to share this beautiful cover (created with a photo from the real Simcoe County) with the kind words of @Waub , @NathanHillBooks , Cherie Dimaline, @Plettsky , @MichaelFarrisSmith , @HarmerLiz , and @Carleigh_bakes . Authors I admire greatly, and am lucky to know. Pre-order the novel now or grab yourself a copy at your local bookstore on May 19th: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/774603/county-road-six-by-kevin-hardcastle/9780385700887 Thanks for reading, all. Believe in your dreams... #AmReading #Novel #Fiction #CountyRoadSix #Rural #Ontario #Canada #CanLit #Bookstagram

Massive congratulations to Kyle Edwards on being named a finalist for the 2026 Amazon First Novel Award with the incredible SMALL CEREMONIES! 🎉

Huge congratulations to Saeed Teebi (YOU WILL NOT KILL OUR IMAGINATION) and Rick Westhead (WE BREED LIONS) on being named finalists for the 2026 Trillium Book Award! 🥳

Happy release day to Lainey Feingold, Reigné Gilbert, Chancey Fleet, and Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech, out today from Taylor & Franics 💙 You can order a copy through the link in our bio! ABOUT DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY ETHICS: Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Techis a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities. This book introduces the first Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework - an action-oriented, three-part tool designed to influence, change, and disrupt patterns of exclusion with values, actions, and questions. Thirty-nine disabled and nondisabled authors from ten countries and one commonwealth apply this framework across technologies, sectors, and countries. The editors and authors - with over 600 years of combined accessibility and disability advocacy experience - aim to build a world that recognizes disabled people’s right to fully participate in every facet of digital life and to offer organizations an ethics lens to help eliminate the financial, legal, privacy, security, health and safety, and other risks and harms of disability exclusion. Through stories, recommendations, strategies, and other guidance, this book looks at a wide range of topics through a digital accessibility ethics lens: from gaming, hackathons, design, and burnout to procurement, AI, healthcare, cybersecurity, and more. It is for technologists, educators, students, marketers, policy makers, lawyers, and everyone who believes in a digital world for all of us. As the world grows more digital, as AI is marketed everywhere, and as the number of people with disabilities expands, there has never been a more crucial time to expose, explore, and act at the intersection of ethics, disability, and digital accessibility.Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Techoffers a roadmap to show us the way.

We are so thrilled to welcome Jillian Smart to CookeMcDermid! She is represented by Martha Webb.

Congratulations to Andrea Gunraj on a lovely review from The Globe & Mail and a fantastic launch for GO-BETWEEN GIRL! 🎉

Happy release day to Rick Mofina and ONE SECOND AWAY, his brand new thriller, out today from Doubleday Canada 🚊💙 You can order a copy through the link in our bio! ABOUT ONE SECOND AWAY: What happens when your worst nightmare becomes your reality? One sunny day in California, Jessie is hugging her nine-year-old son, Dylan, goodbye at the airport. He’s travelling alone, all the way across the country, to visit his grandparents and father, Jessie’s soon-to-be ex-husband. Her heart is breaking, but she puts on a brave face and gives her son one last wave as a flight attendant leads him away. Several hours later, Jessie gets a frantic call from Dylan’s grandmother in New York. Dylan is missing. In a split-second, Jessie’s world turns upside down. The AirTag she’d put in Dylan’s backpack says he’s still at LAX. The airline insists that he was picked up at JFK by an elderly couple claiming to be his grandparents—but Jessie’s in-laws insist they haven’t seen him. Dylan has disappeared into thin air. At the same moment, miles away, in Toronto, a train operator loses control of a subway train, and the fiery crash kills five passengers and injures dozens of others. Was this a fatal human error or something more sinister? And how exactly is it connected to the disappearance of Dylan? Because, somehow, it is.

I'll be taking COUNTY ROAD SIX on the actual road to Hamilton Rock City this spring, where I'll be part of the magical @HamiltonLibrary Author Series, discussing the novel with celebrated hometown author and academic @MeaghanStrimas ! Come and yell-whisper cusses at me at the Central Branch on June 4th, 2026 at 6:30pm. (Note that it is at 6:30pm, and not 7pm, as I had down erroneously on my calendar. Gah.) It'll be a good one, Hamilton friends, so take a wander over there. And I'll be back on here to bother you with other book events around the land shortly. Find the full event info here: https://events.hpl.ca/event/15882726 Thanks for including me in this mighty series, HPL, and for hosting us. #CountyRoadSix #AmReading #Fiction #Novel #CanLit #Bookstagram

Code of Misconduct, a documentary on the 2025 Hockey Canada trial and hockey culture inspired by and drawing from Rick Westhead’s investigative work in WE BREED LIONS, has its world premiere in Toronto on April 26 and 27 at the Hot Docs festival! You can purchase tickets through the link in our bio.

Submissions for the 2026 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction open at 12:01AM PDT on Friday, May 1, 2026 and close at 11:59PM PDT on Sunday, May 31, 2026! The prize is open to current students and alumni of the UBC Creative Writing Program. You can find more prize details through the link in our bio.

Happy release day to Marsha Skrypuch and STILL ALIVE, the next instalment in the Kidnapped From Ukraine series, out today from Scholastic 💙 You can order a copy through the link in our bio! ABOUT STILL ALIVE: This gripping, accessible novel by celebrated Ukrainian Canadian author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch follows two sisters as they struggle to survive the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 12-year-old twin sisters Rada and Dariia Popkova couldn’t be more different. Dariia is outgoing and chatty while Rada is quieter and artsy. But what they have in common is their love for each other and their home. The family lives in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which is attacked by the Russians on Feb 24th, 2022. The attack separates the family — Dariia is with her mom and Rada with her dad. The thrilling conclusion to this trilogy will have readers reaching for tissues on the edge of their seats.