Shawn L. Bird
@shawnlbird.bsky.social
Lintusen Press.
Author, poet, publisher, educator, Rotarian, Peacebuilder, penpal, exhausted human.
Puhun Suomea. Je parles francais.
Author, poet, publisher, educator, Rotarian, Peacebuilder, penpal, exhausted human.
Puhun Suomea. Je parles francais.
Friday Nov 28 is the last Write-in at the Salmon Arm branch of Okanagan Regional Library. 6-7:30 pm. It's always easier to write away from home!
Come on down!
Come on down!
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Friday Nov 28 is the last Write-in at the Salmon Arm branch of Okanagan Regional Library. 6-7:30 pm. It's always easier to write away from home!
Come on down!
Come on down!
Every Friday in October and November, pop into the Salmon Arm branch of ORL for FRIDAY NIGHT WRITES! 6:00 to 7:30 pm Bring your own writing supplies. Get prompts from me or work on your own project. You know it's easier to write out of the house! #amwriting #localauthor #writingcommunity #SalmonArm
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Every Friday in October and November, pop into the Salmon Arm branch of ORL for FRIDAY NIGHT WRITES! 6:00 to 7:30 pm Bring your own writing supplies. Get prompts from me or work on your own project. You know it's easier to write out of the house! #amwriting #localauthor #writingcommunity #SalmonArm
Local authors' event at Okanagan Regional Library Salmon Arm branch on Friday evening October 3. Come meet some authors, buy some books, get some books signed, celebrate literacy in our community
September 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Local authors' event at Okanagan Regional Library Salmon Arm branch on Friday evening October 3. Come meet some authors, buy some books, get some books signed, celebrate literacy in our community
Now is your best chance to find my books available for half price at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find my books and many more at www.smashwords.com/shelves/prom... all month! #SWSale2025 #Smashwords #IReadCanadian #CanadianAuthor #BCAuthor
July 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Now is your best chance to find my books available for half price at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find my books and many more at www.smashwords.com/shelves/prom... all month! #SWSale2025 #Smashwords #IReadCanadian #CanadianAuthor #BCAuthor
#HappyCanadaDay
Let's celebrate the day with 16 #Canadian short stories!
#SorryNotSorry anthology
#IReadCanada #CanadianAuthors #shortstories including some #hockeystories #CanadianValues
Books2Read.com/SorryNotSorry
Let's celebrate the day with 16 #Canadian short stories!
#SorryNotSorry anthology
#IReadCanada #CanadianAuthors #shortstories including some #hockeystories #CanadianValues
Books2Read.com/SorryNotSorry
July 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
#HappyCanadaDay
Let's celebrate the day with 16 #Canadian short stories!
#SorryNotSorry anthology
#IReadCanada #CanadianAuthors #shortstories including some #hockeystories #CanadianValues
Books2Read.com/SorryNotSorry
Let's celebrate the day with 16 #Canadian short stories!
#SorryNotSorry anthology
#IReadCanada #CanadianAuthors #shortstories including some #hockeystories #CanadianValues
Books2Read.com/SorryNotSorry
#HappyCanadaDay! Here's a great anthology of stories to celebrate #Canada from 16 great Canadian authors.
#IReadCanadian #CanadianAuthor #Booksky
#SORRYNOTSORRY
Books2Read.com/SorryNotSorry
#IReadCanadian #CanadianAuthor #Booksky
#SORRYNOTSORRY
Books2Read.com/SorryNotSorry
June 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#HappyCanadaDay! Here's a great anthology of stories to celebrate #Canada from 16 great Canadian authors.
#IReadCanadian #CanadianAuthor #Booksky
#SORRYNOTSORRY
Books2Read.com/SorryNotSorry
#IReadCanadian #CanadianAuthor #Booksky
#SORRYNOTSORRY
Books2Read.com/SorryNotSorry
Wow! What a great review!
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#OttawaReviewofBooks #IReadCanadian
#shortstories #Canadianauthors
#SorryNotSorryAnthology
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#OttawaReviewofBooks #IReadCanadian
#shortstories #Canadianauthors
#SorryNotSorryAnthology
Sorry, Not Sorry edited by Shawn Bird
Reviewed by Robert RuntéIf you are an Alberta separatist, a truck convoy supporter, or Fox News enthusiast, this anthology is probably not for you. For everybody else, this is a pretty great collectio...
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June 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The #SorryNotSorry anthology of Canadian stories is looking absolutely fantastic. Releases on Canada Day. Pre-orders coming soon. #amreadingshortstories #amreadingCanadian #IReadCanadian #amreading #CanadianAuthors #CanadianBooks
June 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The #SorryNotSorry anthology of Canadian stories is looking absolutely fantastic. Releases on Canada Day. Pre-orders coming soon. #amreadingshortstories #amreadingCanadian #IReadCanadian #amreading #CanadianAuthors #CanadianBooks
#amediting
again.
I feel like I've been editing for days, weeks, months.
Ah. Perhaps
Because I have been!
But it's the last 50 pages! There's light at the end of the tunnel.
#amwriting #IReadCanadian This is the #collaborativenovel workshopped at #WhenWordsCollide2024 #LintusenPress
again.
I feel like I've been editing for days, weeks, months.
Ah. Perhaps
Because I have been!
But it's the last 50 pages! There's light at the end of the tunnel.
#amwriting #IReadCanadian This is the #collaborativenovel workshopped at #WhenWordsCollide2024 #LintusenPress
May 31, 2025 at 5:04 AM
#amediting
again.
I feel like I've been editing for days, weeks, months.
Ah. Perhaps
Because I have been!
But it's the last 50 pages! There's light at the end of the tunnel.
#amwriting #IReadCanadian This is the #collaborativenovel workshopped at #WhenWordsCollide2024 #LintusenPress
again.
I feel like I've been editing for days, weeks, months.
Ah. Perhaps
Because I have been!
But it's the last 50 pages! There's light at the end of the tunnel.
#amwriting #IReadCanadian This is the #collaborativenovel workshopped at #WhenWordsCollide2024 #LintusenPress
So what's the real beef with Harvard, do you think?
Did they refuse him admission or something?
Did they refuse him admission or something?
May 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
So what's the real beef with Harvard, do you think?
Did they refuse him admission or something?
Did they refuse him admission or something?
Happy International Fluevog Day! #IFD2025 I used up a store credit on these graphite (dark grey) Lili. Fingers crossed they fit well and look as great as I think they should! #FluevogShoes Did you celebrate today? What new shoe joined your household?
May 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Happy International Fluevog Day! #IFD2025 I used up a store credit on these graphite (dark grey) Lili. Fingers crossed they fit well and look as great as I think they should! #FluevogShoes Did you celebrate today? What new shoe joined your household?
We're counting down the days until @wordonthelake.bsky.social Writers Conference at #SalmonArmBC #ShuswapLake May 16-18 2025. Check out WordontheLakeWritersFestival.com for all the details and when you can register last minute on site next weekend! #amwriting
#BCWriters #WordontheLake
#BCWriters #WordontheLake
Word on Lake Writers Festival – a festival for all writers and readers
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May 12, 2025 at 5:44 AM
We're counting down the days until @wordonthelake.bsky.social Writers Conference at #SalmonArmBC #ShuswapLake May 16-18 2025. Check out WordontheLakeWritersFestival.com for all the details and when you can register last minute on site next weekend! #amwriting
#BCWriters #WordontheLake
#BCWriters #WordontheLake
It's the first weekend of the month so I'm playing with #FuriousFiction prompts from Australian Writers' Centre. I've got a vote in there and something silk, and I've used angry and circle. Now to find a natural place for strike... 250 of 500 words. There's room! ;-) #amwriting #writingcommunity
May 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It's the first weekend of the month so I'm playing with #FuriousFiction prompts from Australian Writers' Centre. I've got a vote in there and something silk, and I've used angry and circle. Now to find a natural place for strike... 250 of 500 words. There's room! ;-) #amwriting #writingcommunity
Just over 2 weeks left on the Lintusen Press #submissioncall for #shortstories from #Canadianauthors for their upcoming Sorry Not Sorry anthology. See the details at lintusenpress.ca/submissions
#writingcommunity, #amwriting #BCauthors #CanLit
#writingcommunity, #amwriting #BCauthors #CanLit
Current submission calls:
SORRY NOT SORRY ANTHOLOGY SHORT STORY CALL: Lintusen Press is looking for a variety of short stories celebrating Canada. THE BRIEF: Canadian authors are invited to contribute a story that is set in…
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April 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Just over 2 weeks left on the Lintusen Press #submissioncall for #shortstories from #Canadianauthors for their upcoming Sorry Not Sorry anthology. See the details at lintusenpress.ca/submissions
#writingcommunity, #amwriting #BCauthors #CanLit
#writingcommunity, #amwriting #BCauthors #CanLit
Who's coming to #SalmonArmBC on gorgeous Shuswap Lake for @wordonthelake.bsky.social? Such an awesome, intimate festival where you dine with the presenters and network with other writers. Register now!
#amwriting #BCwriters #writingconference #ShuswapArts #writingcommunity SEE YOU THERE!
#amwriting #BCwriters #writingconference #ShuswapArts #writingcommunity SEE YOU THERE!
May is our festival May 16-18. If you are unable to do the whole weekend, you can just attend a day, or the Friday night’s Café Lit or the Saturday evening Banquet. Tickets to the evening events are limited so waste no time to get yours at wordonthelakewritersfestival.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Who's coming to #SalmonArmBC on gorgeous Shuswap Lake for @wordonthelake.bsky.social? Such an awesome, intimate festival where you dine with the presenters and network with other writers. Register now!
#amwriting #BCwriters #writingconference #ShuswapArts #writingcommunity SEE YOU THERE!
#amwriting #BCwriters #writingconference #ShuswapArts #writingcommunity SEE YOU THERE!
Reposted by Shawn L. Bird
Hurry, Hurry! No time to lose!
Early bird rates for the Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival end on April 20! And the final day to register is April 27.
www.wordonthelakewritersfestival.com
Early bird rates for the Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival end on April 20! And the final day to register is April 27.
www.wordonthelakewritersfestival.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Hurry, Hurry! No time to lose!
Early bird rates for the Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival end on April 20! And the final day to register is April 27.
www.wordonthelakewritersfestival.com
Early bird rates for the Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival end on April 20! And the final day to register is April 27.
www.wordonthelakewritersfestival.com
#Writers! Heads' up! April 20 Early Bird Reg for #WordontheLakeWritersFestival closes! This lovely intimate festival May 16-18 2025 in beautiful #SalmonArmBC is a highlight of my literary year. You should come! Great presenters food & entertainment
#amwriting #CanadianAuthors #BCWriters #ShuswapBC
#amwriting #CanadianAuthors #BCWriters #ShuswapBC
April 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
#Writers! Heads' up! April 20 Early Bird Reg for #WordontheLakeWritersFestival closes! This lovely intimate festival May 16-18 2025 in beautiful #SalmonArmBC is a highlight of my literary year. You should come! Great presenters food & entertainment
#amwriting #CanadianAuthors #BCWriters #ShuswapBC
#amwriting #CanadianAuthors #BCWriters #ShuswapBC
Happy #BCBookDay!
I recommend picking up a book by BC publisher LintusenPress.ca like #PlatypusTales a quartet of quirky stories from 4 BC authors! #canadianauthor #IReadCanadian #BCBooks
I recommend picking up a book by BC publisher LintusenPress.ca like #PlatypusTales a quartet of quirky stories from 4 BC authors! #canadianauthor #IReadCanadian #BCBooks
Lintusen Press
a collaborative micropress
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April 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Happy #BCBookDay!
I recommend picking up a book by BC publisher LintusenPress.ca like #PlatypusTales a quartet of quirky stories from 4 BC authors! #canadianauthor #IReadCanadian #BCBooks
I recommend picking up a book by BC publisher LintusenPress.ca like #PlatypusTales a quartet of quirky stories from 4 BC authors! #canadianauthor #IReadCanadian #BCBooks
Hey! KOBO Sale on #MurderingMrEdwards a darkly humorous novella where the English teacher is murdered by a different staff member in every chapter that Diana Gabaldon said is "Clever, funny, and totally engaging!" www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
Murdering Mr. Edwards ebook by Shawn L. Bird - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Murdering Mr. Edwards" by Shawn L. Bird available from Rakuten Kobo. One obnoxious English teacher.
Twelve Tales of his death.
Norton Edwards, English department head,
is the reigning despo...
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April 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Hey! KOBO Sale on #MurderingMrEdwards a darkly humorous novella where the English teacher is murdered by a different staff member in every chapter that Diana Gabaldon said is "Clever, funny, and totally engaging!" www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
I've been reading #DianaGabaldon 's A Breath of Snow and Ashes. Here's a quote about bad leadership (referring to Hodgepole)
April 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I've been reading #DianaGabaldon 's A Breath of Snow and Ashes. Here's a quote about bad leadership (referring to Hodgepole)
I've been reading through #DianaGabaldon 's A Breath of Snow & Ashes ( #Outlander Book 6) set just before the American revolution, and finding all sorts of parallels with our times. #literature #IAmReadingHistoricalFiction #WhatGoesAroundComesAround
April 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I've been reading through #DianaGabaldon 's A Breath of Snow & Ashes ( #Outlander Book 6) set just before the American revolution, and finding all sorts of parallels with our times. #literature #IAmReadingHistoricalFiction #WhatGoesAroundComesAround
Looks like the federal Director of Public Prosecution should be laying treason charges against a sitting premier without delay and that premier should be removed from office immediately.
laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-4...
laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-4...
Criminal Code
Federal laws of Canada
laws-lois.justice.gc.ca
March 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Looks like the federal Director of Public Prosecution should be laying treason charges against a sitting premier without delay and that premier should be removed from office immediately.
laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-4...
laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-4...
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What a wonderful review of a fantastic project.
#HeavenstoMurgatroyd #IReadCanadian #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #LintusenPress
What a wonderful review of a fantastic project.
#HeavenstoMurgatroyd #IReadCanadian #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #LintusenPress
Heavens to Murgatroyd edited by Shawn Bird
Reviewed by Robert RuntéLintusen Press is a small collaborative, Canadian publisher, best known for “Murdering Mr. Edwards,” wherein various classroom teachers each separately plot the death of the ob...
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March 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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What a wonderful review of a fantastic project.
#HeavenstoMurgatroyd #IReadCanadian #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #LintusenPress
What a wonderful review of a fantastic project.
#HeavenstoMurgatroyd #IReadCanadian #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #LintusenPress
Pre-orders are available now.
A launch on Saturday, Mar 15, 2025 for this project to benefit a talented Ontario poet.
#HeavensToMurgatroyd
#IReadCanadian #shortstories #poetry #CanadianReads #WriterCommunity
A launch on Saturday, Mar 15, 2025 for this project to benefit a talented Ontario poet.
#HeavensToMurgatroyd
#IReadCanadian #shortstories #poetry #CanadianReads #WriterCommunity
March 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Pre-orders are available now.
A launch on Saturday, Mar 15, 2025 for this project to benefit a talented Ontario poet.
#HeavensToMurgatroyd
#IReadCanadian #shortstories #poetry #CanadianReads #WriterCommunity
A launch on Saturday, Mar 15, 2025 for this project to benefit a talented Ontario poet.
#HeavensToMurgatroyd
#IReadCanadian #shortstories #poetry #CanadianReads #WriterCommunity
Reposted by Shawn L. Bird
Smashwords is having a huge ebook sale!
Check out all the Lintusen Press books at 50% off! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#smashwords #ebookweek25
Check out all the Lintusen Press books at 50% off! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#smashwords #ebookweek25
March 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Smashwords is having a huge ebook sale!
Check out all the Lintusen Press books at 50% off! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#smashwords #ebookweek25
Check out all the Lintusen Press books at 50% off! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#smashwords #ebookweek25