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11/08/2024

So proud of our Book Designer, Jordan, and can’t wait to go to ! 🙌

Repost “I love books and zines from around the world and I’m so grateful that so many folks share that love as part of the Zine Fest.”⁣
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Julie Bull’s profile this month is focussed on Jordan Beaulieu; book and zine maker, visual artist, and coordinator extraordinaire!⁣
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For the full profile, grab your November issue of The Buzz, or click the link in the bio!⁣
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10/29/2024

Happy Book Release Day to Just to Be With You! 📚💗

Written and illustrated by mother-daughter duo Libby and Meg Glover, Just to Be With You is all about the lengths we go to in order to show our love for someone. To prove her love and make her way back to her family, the narrator goes on an expedition around the world, trekking through shark-infested waters and treacherous mountain winds, and doing the scariest thing of all—singing solo on a stage in a room packed with people!

Along the way, she collects companions from each adventure who take her to the next big challenge. Written as a love letter to family and friends, Just to Be With You is a testament to all of the daring things we do for love.

Just to Be With You is now available from bookstores near you! You can also check out the link in Libby and Meg’s bio , or visit the PSP website (link in bio - ).

10/28/2024

Ready to Share Your Story with the World? 🌎📚🌍

At Pownal Street Press, we support authors through every stage of their journey—from first draft to final details at the book launch. We have limited hybrid publishing spots for 2025 and would love to read your work!

Our publishing focus includes purposeful children’s picture books and adult nonfiction across memoir, health & wellness, mind-body-spirit, lifestyle, and family & relationships.

We provide custom publishing solutions tailored to meet authors wherever they are in the process. Our comprehensive services include editorial, author-illustrator matchmaking, book design, ebook production, and printer coordination. We also assist with distribution, marketing, and sales. With us, hybrid authors retain 100% of royalties, ensuring you stay in control.

Apply on our website via the “Work With Us” tab (link in bio - ). Let’s make your story unforgettable!

10/25/2024

Check out ’s Author Interview with ! 🐶📚

Repost from :

“📌First tell us something about yourself.
I am a recently retired grade school teacher of twenty-five years. For nineteen of those years, I taught a kindergarten arts program as well as grade one. I found it so gratifying to witness my students, as well as my own children, learn how to read. It was like a light switch went on that opened up a whole new world for them! Because of this, I have never had a problem buying books for my kids which has led them to foster a love of reading. I also have a theater and voice background which helped inspire my Easton songs and rhymes.

📌How and when did your journey start as a writer?
As a primary school teacher, I was always reading to my students as well as my own children. I enjoyed exposing them to all kinds of books. I also introduced them to Reader’s Theater which combines the practice of reading and performing. By having the script in hand, my students weren’t as nervous to perform plays in front of their parents and peers. My writing journey began in October of 2022. I took a sabbatical from teaching for a year so that I could immerse myself in the writing process. During this time I was able to find an illustrator for my book series. Izzy Bean has truly brought the Easton books to life with his vibrant and action filled illustrations. So far, we have collaborated “across the pond” on three books together as Izzy lives in England and I am in Toronto, Canada.

📌When did you write your first story? Is it published or not?
My first book, “The Adventures of Easton the Rescue Pet-The Dog in the Deli” was self-published in June 2023. It is a true story of one of many of Easton’s zany adventures. I self published my first book in hopes of finding a publishing company in the future. I am grateful to say that I am now a published author with Pownal Street Press.

We have two more books coming out which are “Homeward Bound”(release date October 2024) and “Puppy School Pandemonium”(release date June 2025). .”

10/24/2024

Just to Be With You is available for pre-order and will be on the shelves of a bookstore near you on October 29th! 📚💗🌎

This beautiful book by mother-daughter duo Libby and Meg Glover shares a tale of the lengths we will go for love.

In celebration of the book’s release Libby and Meg will be hosting a storytime and book signing event at the Indigo on Yonge & Eglinton in Toronto! The launch will take place on November 9th from 1-2pm. We hope to see you there!

For pre-ordering options, visit the link in Libby and Meg’s bio , or check out the PSP website (link in bio - ).

10/17/2024

Attention Book Lovers! You’re invited to the Sacred Thought book launch in Fredericton 📚🪶

Join Elder George Paul on October 18th to launch his important and timely book, Sacred Thought: Mi’kmaq Meditations for Our Times.

Friday, October 18
6:00pm
Musée des beaux-art Beaverbrook Art Gallery

Mi’kmaq Elder George Paul shares his traditional knowledge with those on a quest to better understand themselves and the world around them. With creation stories, buffalo sage and by tapping into our spirit guides, Sacred Thought: Mi’kmaq Meditations for our Times is a book for those who are looking for balance and peace in the midst of the chaos and confusion that govern the world today.

Books will be available for purchase at the event. For more information about the event, check out the PSP blog (link in bio - ).

10/16/2024

Happy Book Launch Pawty 🐾🎉🎉🎉🎈🎈

💕Homeward Bound happening this evening, all are welcome!

10/15/2024

Happy Book Release Day to Sacred Thought: Mi’kmaq Meditations for our Times by Elder George Paul! 📚🪶

“Elder George Paul, has dedicated more than four decades of his life to supporting the revitalization of our nation’s culture. In many ways, his tireless efforts have led a resurgence in our culture’s beautiful tapestry of language, spirit, and tradition — a colourful Mi’kmaw tapestry made all the more powerful when celebrated through the performance arts — and in particular, as we come together as a community to join in traditional song and dance.” — Julie Pellissier-Lush, Atlantic Books

Sacred Thought is now available from bookstores near you! You can also check out the PSP website for book buying options (link in bio - ).

10/10/2024

Introducing our amazing new PSP team member, Editorial and Marketing Assistant, Emma! Editor Mo put the questions to her, and here is what she had to share!

☯️What’s your favorite book and why?

📚My favourite book is The Idiot by Elif Batuman. The Idiot follows Selin during her first year of undergrad at Harvard in 1995. Not a lot happens plot-wise, but I love this book because of Batuman’s dry sense of humor and the ridiculous situations that the protagonist finds herself in. Within the first couple of pages, Elif Batuman somehow manages to make the process of sending emails - which is new to Selin - sound interesting, which I consider quite the feat.

☯️Why are you drawn to the publishing world?

📚As an intern at Pownal Street Press, I got to work on a variety of editorial and marketing projects, from arranging a flat plan for an upcoming children’s book and attending editorial meetings with clients, to completing metadata audits and organizing promo material for upcoming book tours. This experience has given me more exposure to the book publishing process as a whole. I have really enjoyed learning more about the different aspects of the publishing world, and I am thrilled to stay on with Pownal Street Press as an Editorial & Marketing Assistant!

🔮Where do you see yourself in five years?

🗺️In five years I hope to have made a solid dent in my
TBR list (it’s currently sitting at around 900 books - 1 gave up hope of ever getting through it years ago). I’d also love to do some more travelling, and visit New Zealand and Japan!

10/09/2024

Puppy School Pandemonium Cover Reveal! 🐶📚

Based on personal experience, Puppy School Pandemonium follows Easton on a new adventure to puppy school! What will he learn there, and how will he keep his behavior on track to graduate? The book stresses the importance of adopting rescue pets, and will be a fabulous read aloud for dog lovers — and their companion children — to enjoy. Puppy School Pandemonium is the third book in The Adventures of Easton the Rescue Pet series and is the follow-up book to The Dog in the Deli and Homeward Bound.

Puppy School Pandemonium will be available June 10th, 2025!

10/07/2024

Fredericton Sacred Thought book launch! 📚✨

Join Elder George Paul on October 18th to launch his important and timely book, Sacred Thought: Mi’kmaq Meditations for Our Times.

Friday, October 18
6:00pm
Musée des beaux-art Beaverbrook Art Gallery

Mi’kmaq Elder George Paul shares his traditional knowledge with those on a quest to better understand themselves and the world around them. With creation stories, buffalo sage and by tapping into our spirit guides, Sacred Thought: Mi’kmaq Meditations for our Times is a book for those who are looking for balance and peace in the midst of the chaos and confusion that govern the world today.

Books will be available for purchase at the event. For more information about the event, check out the PSP blog (link in bio - ).

10/02/2024

Happy Book Release Day to Homeward Bound, written by Elizabeth Retter and illustrated by Izzy Bean! 📚🐾

Homeward Bound is the second book in the Adventures of Easton the Rescue Pet series, and follows Easton on a new adventure as he travels to meet his new family and settles into his new home.

The book stresses the importance of adopting rescue pets, and will be a fabulous read aloud for dog lovers — and their companion children — to enjoy. Homeward Bound is only the beginning of Easton’s adventures, with more books coming in 2025!

Homeward Bound is now available from bookstores near you! You can also check out the PSP website for ordering options (link in bio - ).

09/21/2024

So happy to celebrate with Lori Gard and Emma Martin on the launch of their second book, Reg Takes A Trip! A beautiful space to share at the Charlottetown Learning Library and always great to share the room with our partners at 🫶🫶🫶

09/17/2024

Happy (American) Book Birthday to Have You Ever Heard a Whale Exhale? written by Caroline Woodward and illustrated by Claire Watson! 🇺🇸📚🐋

Have You Ever Heard a Whale Exhale? is now available from US bookstores. This fanciful coastal adventure for kids of all ages brings the senses to life! On a journey of touch, taste, sight and smell, this whale of a tale urges littles to explore their surroundings and put their imaginations to work.

For US ordering options, please visit Bookshop.org (link in bio - ).

09/16/2024

Attention PEI folks! Lori Gard will be hosting a book launch to celebrate her new children’s book, Reg Takes a Trip, at the Charlottetown Library Learning Centre on Saturday, September 21st at 1pm. 🐻📚

Join Reg as he visualizes an imaginary trip to the ocean that will soon have him off to sleep. Reg Takes a Trip, the latest in the Tales for Big Feelings series, uses the five senses to guide reluctant young sleepers into dreamland.

Copies from Bookmark will be available for purchase at the launch! For more information about the event, check out the PSP blog (link in bio - ).

09/12/2024

Pownal Street Press is happy to announce that as of September 1, our titles will be available in the United States! This also means we will be extending our publishing services south of the border as well. 🇺🇸

Check out Bookshop.org to order PSP titles from the US (link in bio - ).   

09/10/2024

Happy Book Release Day to author Zaynab Mohammed and her book, Are You Listening?: Weaving a Tapestry from Pain into Beauty 💛📚

“As an Indigenous person who grew up in so-called Canada, I know what it is like to be misunderstood, unheard, and unseen. Because I grew up here, I was also taught to misunderstand, to not see, and to not hear the narratives of Muslim Canadians: Palestinians, Iraqi and Lebanese people. With generous honesty, Zaynab Mohammed offers us a chance to truly listen to her story, which is one of family, lineage, and culture. Any person in Canada who is committed to reconciliation should also pledge to undoing and unlearning the racism and xenophobia that we have been taught in the contexts of Mohammed’s homelands. Start here and now. When Mohammed asks Are you Listening? honour her story and the strength it takes to tell it. Say yes.” – Smokii Sumac, author of you are enough: love poems for the end of the world & winner of Indigenous Voices Award for English Poetry

Are You Listening? is now available from bookstores near you! You can also check out the PSP website for book buying options (link in bio - ).

08/24/2023

Almost a year to the day, Pownal Street Press invites the community to the launch of Fiona, taking place at the Salvador Dali Café on Sunday, September 17th, from 2 – 3:30 pm, as part of the Wild Threads Literary Festival.

Featured presenters include Jay Scotland, Adrian McNally Smith, PEI Poet Laureate Tanya Davis and the Island Nature Trust.

This limited edition of poetry, essay and photographs records Islanders' experience of the storm, from Fiona’s first shocking moments post to the absolute wonder experienced as the lights came back on, home by home. It is a historical record of a weather event that will never be forgotten, and serves to capture the impact of climate change on Canada’s smallest province.

Book sales by the Bookmark . Royalties from the book’s sales will be donated to the Island Nature Trust.
Read the full release on the PSP blog (https://pownalstreetpress.com/__fiona/)

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