If you had told me that in the course of one month, I would appear in the Globe and Mail TWICE, I would have been certain that was a lie. But I was honoured to see my military memoir, Girls Need Not Apply: Field Notes from the Forces, make the list of top 100 books […]
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I’m excited to announce that royalties of Girls Need Not Apply: Field Notes from the Forces, will be donated to Women Warriors Healing Garden from 1-11 November! I excitedly announced this news on The Social, where I appeared on Friday with veteran champion, Rick Mercer! This donation will be finished off with my appearance at
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Some people know that my first publishing home was with Chatelaine magazine, where I wrote a blog called Under Fire. It was an honour when the day before my memoir, Girls Need Not Apply, was released with McClelland & Stewart, Chatelaine excerpted one of the chapters for their website. You can read it, here: https://www.chatelaine.com/living/books/girls-need-not-apply-kelly-s-thompson-book-excerpt/
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What a day! I was lucky to share the news of my memoir selling to McClelland & Stewart, my dream publisher, all revealed on International Women’s Day 2018 through my agent, Stephanie Sinclair at Transatlantic Agency. “Girls Need Not Apply,” will publish with McClelland & Stewart in June 2019. We’re celebrating International Women’s Day with
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It’s been a long time in the works, but I’m excited to see the cover revealed for Waiting; An Anthology of essays, to be published by University of Alberta Press in August, 2018 and edited by Julie Sedivy and Rona Altrows. The essays are…as you can imagine, about waiting, all interpreted by various authors. This
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Everyday Heroes: Inspirational Stories of Men and Women in the Canadian Armed Forces Recently, I was lucky to visit The Morning Show on Global with Editor, Jody Mitic, to chat with Jeff and Carolyn about Everyday Heroes: Inspirational stories from men and women in the Canadian Armed Forces, which just released with Simon & Schuster
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It’s exciting times as Everyday Heroes: Inspirational stories from men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces, which releases this fall from Simon & Schuster Canada, ranked on one of CBC Book’s fall preview lists! My essay, “Basically Broken” appears in this anthology. CBC Books does lots of roundups of great books, so I was
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I’m so excited to see the latest book, “Everyday Heroes,” which will be published by Simon & Schuster Canada this fall. It is a collection of first person account essays of veterans and soldiers, men and women, and my piece, “Basically Broken,” will appear in this great collection of work. Just two weeks ago, we
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