Happy Book Birthday to Sarah Selecky on the
publication of RADIANT SHIMMERING LIGHT with HarperCollins Canada and Blackstone Audio! It will publish in the US later this year with Bloomsbury on December 4, 2018.
Sarah will be launching the novel on May 14th at Type Books. Full details are here:
Monday May 14th, 6:30-8:30pm, Type Books, 883 Queen St West.
RSVP: support@sarahselecky.com
The link is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/578037859262068/
In addition, she’ll have two other Ontario book launches. Visit the following link for full information — https://www.sarahselecky.com/2018/ontario-launch-parties-for-radiant-shimmering-light/
Listen to her The Secret Library Podcast — https://www.secretlibrarypodcast.com/episodes/
Also, check out Sarah’s interview with Carmen Spagnola here: http://www.carmenspagnola.com/2018/04/tnp102-sarah-selecky-radiant-shimmering-light/
Read an interview with Sarah at Quill & Quire here: LINK HERE
RADIANT SHIMMERING LIGHT was featured in Quill & Quire‘s and 49th Shelf‘s spring previews for 2018: https://quillandquire.com/omni/spring-preview-2018-fiction/
https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2018/01/08/Most-Anticipated-Our-2018-Spring-Fiction-Preview
Another great podcast, an interview with Kim Mandar at Bookish Radio is here, starting 15 minutes into the podcast: https://bookishradio.ca/
From the Publisher: “A sharply funny and wise debut novel about female friendship, the face we show the world online and letting your own light shine, from the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted author of This Cake Is for the Party
Lilian Quick has looked up to her cousin Florence her whole life. Florence is everything Lilian is not—brave, confident, quick to find adventure and American. The women have been out of touch for years due to a family rift, but Lilian, childless, single and self-employed as a pet portraitist, has been watching Florence for years. Florence is now Internet-famous as Eleven Novak, the face of a compelling new feminine lifestyle empowerment brand.
When Eleven comes to town as part of her sales tour, she offers Lilian a place at the Temple, her Manhattan office. Despite twenty years of silence, Eleven welcomes her long-lost cousin with open arms, and the two women begin a new relationship. Lilian quickly enrols in the Ascendency, Eleven’s signature program: an expensive three-month training seminar on empowered leadership, spiritual awakening, and sales and marketing. Eleven is going to help her cousin rise up to be her highest self: confident, affluent and self-actualized.
Lilian’s sensitive, artistic nature is stretched by the work she does in the Ascendency, and pushed even further by her cousin’s careful life coaching. In just three months, Lilian’s life changes drastically and becomes everything she’s dreamed of. But is it everything she wants? And can she trust everything Eleven says?”
Advance Praise
“Warm, sharp and deceptively light, with smart things to say about the commodification of spirituality; I ate it up.” —Lisa Gabriele, author of Tempting Faith DiNapoli and The Almost Archer
“Our online world provides endless humorous possibility and here is a book that’s witty, timely, and smart with regard to social media. But then, quite wonderfully, Selecky’s story turns more complicated than it first appeared. Bursting with energy and color, every page delights and provokes. This book is a dazzler.” —Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“The human desire to belong is at the heart of Sarah Selecky’s radiant, shimmering novel. In the person of Lilian Quick, Selecky has created an irresistible heroine. She has once again proven that she is a writer perfectly attuned to the music of the present moment.”
—Barbara Gowdy, author of Little Sister
“Radiant Shimmering Light is inventive and modern. Sarah Selecky delivers a cast of characters who are both recognizable and utterly unique in
this novel that is as luminous as its title.”
—Marissa Stapley, author of Things To Do When It’s Raining
“Fresh and original, Sarah Selecky’s novel cleverly satirizes our insta-world but also takes its characters seriously enough to give them an ending that’s moving and transcendent.” —Kerry Clare, author of Mitzi Bytes
“Sarah Selecky could easily be the next Alice Munro.” —Chatelaine
“Selecky’s stories are ultra-lush and wise, wickedly wry. She is uncannily accurate about all the tender, blasted-open moments that change us for the good. This Cake… is delicious.” —Lisa Moore, Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted author of Caught
“An elegant collection that weaves between life’s everyday pleasures and everyday pain…a beautiful book” —Torontoist
“Strong, often understated, witty and always compassionate. This Cake is for the Party is more than dessert — it is a veritable feast!” —Halifax Herald
“Vibrant, poetic and salacious… It’s no wonder that Cake came so close to winning the Giller.” —THIS Magazine