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A Thousand Lives, Pithy Essays from Book Shops Coffee Pots and the Covid Crisis

A Thousand Lives, Pithy Essays from Book Shops Coffee Pots and the Covid Crisis

With an astounding sense of timing, Annabel opened a bookstore in the pandemic.

2023

Annabel Townsend

Annabel Townsend

Stories

Pinned

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The Brick and the Thing with Feathers.

If hope is the thing with feathers, then grief is the thing that hangs in the air in the exact way that bricks don’t.

1d ago

The Brick and the Thing with Feathers.

1d ago

Pinned

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CEBA, hoop jumping and struggling to remember why I chose this life

I am a fiction author— in the ‘grant writing’ genre.

Jan 7

CEBA, hoop jumping and struggling to remember why I chose this life

Jan 7

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Messed Up and Obvious in the Big City

I have escaped! At the last minute before my family and I flew to the UK to see my parents, I changed my flight. I engineered two days solo…

Jul 15

Messed Up and Obvious in the Big City

Jul 15

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The Shelf Life of Optimism

Like most people I am a pessimist by experience but an optimist by nature. I shall go on being true to my nature. It is often a mistake to…

Jul 6

The Shelf Life of Optimism

Jul 6

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A Cat’s Eye View of Publishing / CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Yet another new venture has occurred, and to date, this may be my most peculiar one yet.

Apr 13

A Cat’s Eye View of Publishing / CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Apr 13

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Exploring for Introverts

Handwritten cue cards litter the floor, dropped and scattered in a fit of frustration. “It’s all crap! I hate this!” he complains. “I’ve…

Mar 24

Exploring for Introverts

Mar 24

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A Liveable City (beneath the snow)

“We don’t quite have a liveable city right now.” Mayor Sandra Masters admitted, in the midst of yet another Saskatchewan snow dump.

Mar 21

A Liveable City (beneath the snow)

Mar 21

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‘Start Here’: Warehouse woes and urban decay

Directly north of Regina’s downtown core is the Warehouse District, an old neighbourhood full of — you guessed it — old warehouses. The…

Feb 25

‘Start Here’: Warehouse woes and urban decay

Feb 25

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Print is dead. Long live Print.

What do you mean it’s online-only??

Feb 10

Print is dead. Long live Print.

Feb 10

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Pivot or Die — unless you’re an academic

Photo by Suad Kamardeen on Unsplash

Jan 30

Pivot or Die — unless you’re an academic

Jan 30

Annabel Townsend

Annabel Townsend

Book Author

Psuedo-Canadian attempting to take my writing more seriously. Bookseller, coffee geek, wanderer and lapsed academic. https://ko-fi.com/kumquat88879

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