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Balancing Act: On Luck in Rerouted and Breaking Right

Posted on March 17, 2022 by Steph

It’s St. Patrick’s Day, so we’re all hearing a lot about the “luck of the Irish” this week. It’s been making me think about books in which luck (fate, happenstance, destiny, fortune or what have you) appears to be an … Continue reading →

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From Far and Wide: Reading Across the Country with PQL for Canada Day!

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Steph

Happy Canada Day, Quill friends! We hope you’re enjoying a relaxing day off under sunny skies, wherever you may be. And if you wanted to add a book to the equation, well, we certainly wouldn’t say no. In celebration of … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to PQL’s 2020 eLit Awards Winners!

Posted on June 23, 2020 by Steph

Since 2010, the eLit Awards have sought to honour the best of English-language digital publishing in a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction categories. The Porcupine’s Quill is pleased to have five medalists in the 2020 eLit Awards! Continue reading →

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From the Vault: Great Books That Will Strike a Note for Music Lovers

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Steph

One of our specialties at PQL is to publish books that demonstrate the convergence of art forms. For the most part, we’ve been successful at marrying visual art and storytelling, but a subset of our books take a more musical route. Read on for a few reading recommendations sure to please the musically inclined. Continue reading →

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Critical Cinematography for Fun and Profit, or, News for May at the Porcupine’s Quill

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Steph

As you know, I have a deep and abiding love for stories of all sorts, and while my preferred way to consume said stories is (unsurprisingly) book format, I’m not too proud to admit that I am also be a fan of screen-based storytelling. At the best of times, I’m an indifferent TV-watcher, but these are most assuredly not the best of times, so I have been more frequently availing myself of the old boob tube of an evening. (Mostly to watch really mindless British reality TV I shamelessly call “crap telly”. Don’t judge me.) Continue reading →

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The 2019 Foreword Indies Book Awards Finalists Have Been Announced!

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Steph

Every year, Foreword Reviews honours the best of indie publishing with the Foreword Indies Book Awards. The panel of judges wades through thousands of books in 55 different categories and whittles them down to a group of finalists. The Porcupine’s … Continue reading →

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