Freehand Books

02/28/2025

Such an amazing night! Thank you everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of Mikka Jacobsen’s brilliant debut story collection, Good Victory! Thanks always to for the generous support, enthusiasm — & and for graciously working with us to create moody lounge lighting and suburban gothic vibe 🍷🫶🖤

Good Victory was also just named to CBC’s Spring Preview — Canadian fiction books to read this spring!

🌹 Warmest congratulations 🌹

Thank you, also to Kay Rollans + for contributing your excellent photos to this album — and to intrepid volunteers and for their all-round support leading into the event & for managing the bar and literary wine pairing!

02/11/2025

The Winnipeg Free Press and reviewer Bev Sandell Greenberg have reviewed Alice Zorn’s latest novel, Colours in Her Hands!

“[Mina is] a flawed, complex individual filled with contradictions. Not only is she inventive, loving, naïve and intuitive, but she also lies, steals, is stubborn and pulls pranks. . . . Zorn has done an admirable job in edifying readers about Down syndrome by imbuing Mina as a character with a strong will, a sense of independence and a creative spark.”

LINK IN BIO to read the full review!

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02/03/2025

"Mikka Jacobsen 's stories burn straight to the heart. . . . With wit, confidence and a delicious kind of dark humour, Jacobsen brings our deepest fears and desires to the surface—and what a relief that is." -- Nadine Sander-Green, author of Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit, on GOOD VICTORY.

Get your copy today! https://freehand-books.com/product/good-victory

01/29/2025

"Mikka Jacobsen wields precise, sardonic prose to forge a suburban gothic landscape where dinner tables, buses, basements, holiday party karaoke hold the potential for both nefariousness and redemption. Her characters peddle in secrets that hover below the surface as these stories gloriously puncture our ost primal human wounds." -- Adèle Barclay, author of If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You and Renaissance Normcore, on GOOD VICTORY.

Get your copy now! https://freehand-books.com/product/good-victory

01/28/2025

This is not to be missed -- Benjamin Hertwig, author of JUICEBOXERS, will be appearing at STARFest in St. Albert on Friday!

Called "harrowing and powerful" and "essential reading" (Quill & Quire, starred review) join Benjamin Hertwig as he discusses his novel Juiceboxers. Find out more and register at sapl.ca

01/20/2025

“In these taut, revelatory, slyly wry tales of sinister neighbours, distracted mothers, careless dads, and bad friends, Mikka Jacobsen probes the darkness that lurks around the edges of childhood and young womanhood with a gaze as unflinching and unsettling as Heather O’Neill’s.” -- Lisa Alward, author of Cocktail, on GOOD VICTORY.

Pre-order: https://freehand-books.com/product/good-victory

01/14/2025

Another spot-on review by Emily Weedon of a book that she needed to push herself to review. Find out why! https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/every-night-i-dream-i-am-a-monk-damian-tarnopolsky
Freehand Books

01/14/2025

✨COVER REVEAL!✨ Introducing the bold, the striking, the illuminating GOOD VICTORY, which shines light in dark places. Mikka Jacobsen's debut collection of stories explores the absurdity of being human in the twenty-first century -- plus a psychic fair at West Edmonton Mall, misadventures at the Calgary Stampede, and Dolly Parton karaoke. Pre-order your copy today!

https://freehand-books.com/product/good-victory

12/26/2024

Our 30% off website sale continues! Use coupon code giftfreehand on our website until January 5, 2025, to receive 30% off print and ebooks.

www.freehand-books.com

12/23/2024

Like your holiday reading a little less warm and cozy, a little more... experimental horror mashing up "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" and time travel and s*x robots? We've got you covered. Amazing Stories highlights G.A. Grisenthwaite's "masterpiece" "Gramps v The real Santa(TM)", found in his collection TALES FOR LATE NIGHT BONFIRES.

https://amazingstories.com/2024/12/clubhouse-guest-review-of-gramps-v-the-real-santa-by-g-a-grisenthwaite/

12/19/2024

Very excited to find our very own Damian Tarnopolsky (author of EVERY NIGHT I DREAM I'M A MONK, EVERY NIGHT I DREAM I'M A MONSTER) in this year's The Short Story Advent Calendar!

It’s December 19. Damian Tarnopolsky, author of Every Night I Dream I’m a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster , can solo just as well on an acoustic. How would you describe your story? DAMIAN TARNOPOLSKY: It’s a commonplace that all writing comes from reading, but with this story it’s ...

12/03/2024

We are offering 30% off all orders through the Freehand website with the coupon code giftfreehand. We suggest ordering by December 13 for holiday delivery, but the sale goes until January 5, 2025.

We also have a limited number of SIGNED copies available for sale: HOMING, signed by Alice Irene Whittaker, and COQ, signed by Author Ali Bryan.

https://freehand-books.com/freehand-holiday-sale-2024/

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11/29/2024

Congratulations to Marion Douglas, on this week's Calgary Bestseller List with her brilliant novel THE GAME OF GIANTS!

11/29/2024

We had a lovely time at Pages On Kensington last night, celebrating the publication of HOMING: A QUEST TO CARE FOR MYSELF AND THE EARTH by Alice Irene Whittaker! We were joined by special guests Joan Crate and Susan Ouriou (of MANY MOTHERS, SEVEN SKIES) and Deborah Willis, as well as the wonderful folks from the Calgary Horticultural Society, who made sure we all left with seeds to plant next year. It was an evening full of conversations that were good for the soul. 🧡💚

http://www.freehand-books.com/product/homing

11/26/2024

Calgary and Vancouver friends -- Alice Irene Whittaker, author of HOMING, is coming to a bookstore near you this week! Join us for a meaningful conversation about how we can take care of the world and ourselves. 🧡

Thurs, Nov 28 -- Pages On Kensington in Calgary, 7pm, along with Joan Crate, Susan Ouriou, and hosted by Deborah Willis. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seed-swap-and-homing-book-launch-tickets-1076799609619

Saturday, Nov 30 -- Upstart & Crow in Vancouver, 6:30pm. https://upstartandcrow.com/event/homing-a-book-launch/

Calgary Horticultural Society Calgary Climate Hub

11/05/2024

We are excited to be at the Legislature today to celebrate Alberta Book Day! We are here with our Alberta book publishing colleagues to showcase the amazing books produced in this province!