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Lisa Brideau
@lisabrideau.bsky.social
author of ADRIFT (out now), climate change policy nerd, weaver, ballroom dancer, cookie addict. In Vancouver. www.lisabrideau.com
Susan Juby's Mindful of Murder series - murder mystery, but somehow also calming and amusing? Yes please. make all the books into seasons! www.cbc.ca/radio/thenex...
Quote tweet with a Canadian book that would absolutely kill as a TV series.

I'll start:
RED X by David Demchuk
The thing that bothers me so much about Carney's joke about greenlighting the Heated Rivalry show is that it furthers the narrative that it's a needle in a haystack. Anyone who reads Canadian books and watches Canadian film knows that we could have dozens more HRs with enough funding.
January 31, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Lovely surprise to see my first published short story (in Diabolical Plots) recommended here! ❤️
January 16, 2026 at 2:42 AM
I took photos of this adorable litter of kittens for a local rescue group (VOKRA) and they were all adopted within a week! I mean, how could you not adopt these cute nuggets? 🥰
December 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
As the year wraps up I'm highlighting a few of the books I read in 2025 that have stuck with me!

Non-fiction -The True Cost of Wool by Anna Hunter! (Paired with a book I featured last year as the two are in such close conversation: Vanishing Fleece by Parkes).
Why has this one stuck with me? 1/2
December 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I paid to have a new battery installed in my writing laptop recently and it is claiming some pretty spectacular longevity lol
December 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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For folks who nominate short stories for awards in the sci-fi realms: I published my first ever short story in 2025 at Diabolical Plots! 🥳. So... I hope you'll... consider it?
(I know not how these things work, clearly): diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

Happy award nominating!?
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 AM
When this time of year rolls around I think a lot about the challenge of book discoverability, how a small number of books get noticed relative to the tens of thousands that will come each year. I think of the awards that nominate the same titles. The best-of lists with mostly the same titles. 1/?
December 10, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I don't know what happened, but sales of the paperback version of my book spiked to surprising levels over the past few weeks (very high for a book that came out in 2023!) - so that is a lovely pre-holiday gift to me. Thank you mysterious universe and book-buyers!!! #Adrift
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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#bcbuylocal week kicks off today, and you can't go wrong with a book! Shop at indie bookstores because when you support local $63 out of every $100 goes back to BC compared to $14 from multinationals. Want to shop online? No problem, most local bookstores can accommodate: bit.ly/47BVJL1
December 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Today's an excellent day to pre-order my poetry chap, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL, for the cool uncle or auntie in your life, and support a small but mighty press @gameoverbooks.bsky.social
www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/chil...
November 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
For folks who nominate short stories for awards in the sci-fi realms: I published my first ever short story in 2025 at Diabolical Plots! 🥳. So... I hope you'll... consider it?
(I know not how these things work, clearly): diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

Happy award nominating!?
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I have to share this amazing plant I saw on my walk today. Google says it is a "harlequin glorybower (Clerodendrum trichotomum), also known as the peanut butter tree." Does anyone know about these???
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
November was supposed to be my all-free-time-is-spent-writing month but it started with a dinner with friends (long overdue, v hard to schedule), and I have 2 speaking gigs I'm excited about, & another big non-writing project has poked its head into life with some urgency. But I did write tonight!
a cat laying on an lg laptop keyboard
Alt: a cat laying on an lg laptop keyboard "Writing"
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Got my COVID and flu shots on Friday (free). Consider this a reminder in your timeline to go book yours before all the bugs start circulating for winter.
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I just made some very exciting (to me) 2026 plans!!!
I registered for the Level 1 Bookbinding course with the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artist Guild. Hope to connect with other bookbinding nerds along the way - please wave if that's you!
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I only feel capable of posting fall vibes photos right now.
October 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT.

The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I'm visiting my hometown and just had a lovely time with a book club at the Cole Harbour Library talking about Adrift and climate change. I love book clubs so much, they have all been so thoughtful and kind in their discussions of Adrift.
Love love love these conversations!
(ALSO MY DAD CAME! )
October 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Just a couple of seats left in my Saturday workshop at this Salt Spring Island festival. www.eventbrite.ca/e/paper-cove...?
October 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Hey everyone!! I am starting a chapbook press!!!

rev your engines and write your pitch letters and send them off at paperbillpress.ca!

We are as expansive as a chapbook press can be!! now taking fiction! poetry! non-fiction! criticism! hybrid! You write it? we want it!!
October 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Are in planning to be in North Vancouver tomorrow night? So am I! I'll be giving a talk and showing off some photos from my new book Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck. It's at Lynn Valley Library on Lynn Valley Road at 6:30 pm evelazarus.com/book/beneath...
September 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I'm old. Us old people write blog posts.
Here's one I posted recently about creativity, learning, and art residencies: www.lisabrideau.com/post/writing...
Writing and Learning
This post is about learning. And I'm going to front load an end result of learning: the first short story I ever sold is now available to read on Diabolical Plots! Please be as excited as I am about t...
www.lisabrideau.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Potluck has been a regular caterer of events in my life in Vancouver - if you can support this amazing social enterprise, please do! And a friendly reminder that if you organize catering for your org/event, find a social enterprise or Indigenous company to direct your $$ to.
September 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Oof, this article, so much truth about publishing challenges that exist today. This is a must read. thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it
thewalrus.ca
September 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Got on stage last night and read the opening of the novel I'm currently working on. And realized mid-read that it's kind of gory. (By "kind of", I mean "very".) Fortunately, there is a lot of crossover between sci-fi and horror so the audience wasn't traumatized (I don't think).
September 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM