2007 London Book Fair

And here we are~! Our books displayed at the London [International] Book Fair in this great booth situated next to one of the best food venues and central to the promenade attendees had to traverse to get to the other side of the exhibit area.





Books, books and more books~! We had great shelf space for our titles.

See the Absolutely Books blog for other views of the Fair.












This was the view from the second floor near our booth.

Mallinson Launch at Pacific Festival of the Book

A.J. Mallinson launches her new book Terra Infirma - A Life Unbalanced at the Pacific Festival of the Book in Victoria B.C. on Saturday, March 24th.

A moment from Terra Infirma- A Life Unbalanced shared by author A.J. Mallinson.

This heartwarming and universal account of what it is like to live with disability, is both literary and humorous.

A.J. Mallinson, author of Terra Infirma - A Life Unbalanced and Sandra Janssen of Windshift Press discussing her reading at the Festival.

Pacific Festival of The Book

Crowds of passionate book lovers and writers stopped to chat over the course of the Festival.

The chance to talk about books and publishing for hours at a time is just too tempting~!!



Now that wouldn't be a bit of publishing gossip would it?


We had hoped to take lots of pictures of the Festival and our booth but in the end we were so busy talking to readers and writers that it was over before we knew it.



There is nothing quite as intense and satisfying as two book lovers deep in conversation. Sandra Janssen of Windshift Press and Lynne Van Luven, editor of Nobody's Mother [Touch Wood Editions] sharing ideas.

Looking like a breath of Spring, A.J. Mallinson poses for a photo following her reading from Terra Infirma - A Life Unbalanced.

Author of Take The Wings of A Morning, Kathy Wilson drops by our booth on Saturday afternoon.

World Poetry Day - March 21st

To mark this year’s World Poetry Day, UNESCO will pay tribute to Chilean poet and Nobel Literacy Prize winner, Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), the centenary of whose birth is also being celebrated.

My favourite Neruda poem is Tonight I Can Write. This poem was at the heart of the film Il Postino depicting an apocryphal incident in Neruda's life. In this poem he describes the pleasures and torments of erotic love with a sensual precision that is not often found in the works other modern poets.


An excerpt from Tonight I Can Write

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.


- Pablo Neruda -

A.J. Mallinson Reads at The Festival

Terra Infirma – A Life Unbalanced – Anna Jean Mallinson

The Windshift Press Group is thrilled to have Anna Jean Mallinson do a reading at The Pacific Festival of the Book in Victoria, BC on Saturday, March 23rd at 4:00 in Studio 3. If you are attending the Festival drop by our booth to get your signed copy of Terra Infirma as well as copies of any other Windshift Press titles you may have missed.

Terra Infirma - A Life Unbalanced tells the story of a summer that became a season of change through a toxic response to gentamicin and the author’s struggle to reclaim a life in a body disabled by this modern elixir.



Jean Mallinson is the author of a book of short stories, I Will Bring You Berries, a book of poems, Between Cup and Lip, and, with four other writers, a book of poems, Quintet: Themes & Variations. She is also the author of essays and articles, most recently in Vocabula Review.

She lives in West Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

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“Jean Mallinson, in her wrenching, compelling account of her own disability, reminds us that we, all of us -- wherever our station, whatever our circumstances -- live an uncertain, a wobbly life. A lovely mix of personal thought and literary quotation, A Life Unbalanced is full of honest feeling and whirling reflection.“
Robert Hartwell Fiske, Editor, Vocabula Review. Vocabula Review

Booksellers' Trade Fair

Welcome to the Western Book Reps Association trade fair.

Held from Sunday, February 11th through Tuesday, February 13th, it was a great opportunity for Windshift Press to share their book list with all of the British Columbia booksellers who attended this event.

We met old friends and made many new ones over the course of the fair.











Held at the gorgeous Laurel Point Inn in Victoria, BC, it was easy to be distracted by the wonderful harbour view.











The spacious booth allowed us to provide a changing view of all of the titles published and represented by the Windshift Press Group. Some people on staff spent far too much time changing the displays~!


















Another great view of our recently published and forthcoming titles as well as new books that we are representing.

Important Jewish Book Launched at WOTS

Join Windshift Press at Word on the Street in Vancouver on Sunday, September 24th as we launch From Man to Man - Moishe Nadir, trans. Harvey Fink ($19.95 Cdn/ ISBN: 0-9780056-0-0).

Translated from the original Yiddish, From Man to Man is a collection of the prose of Moishe Nadir, originally published in 1919. This American playwright and poet is enjoying a new renaissance, and it is no small wonder why. The work is of tremendous depth and the translation by Harvey Fink is an example of the same love and quest for the greater truths of Life which Nadir shared.

Harvey Fink will be signing copies of the book and is available to discuss other Yiddish translation projects he is currently at work on. If you miss it in Vancouver, you can buy your copy here

Book Launch at Word on the Street

Join Windshift Press at Word on the Street in Vancouver on Sunday, September 24th as we launch Gay 101: A Straight Look at Gay Life ( $19.95 Cdn/ ISBN: 0-9736560-9-3 ) by Sandra Janssen & Steven Coull.

Gay 101 offers the answers to some of the questions straight people are often afraid to ask. This perceptive book gives the reader the inside scoop on today's gay culture as reported by gay people.

This book is the result of extensive interviews with gay men and women from all backgrounds. Sandra Janssen and Steven Coull have made these intriguing and insight-filled surveys come to life. The authors offer us an opportunity to fully appreciate the "lifestyle", and find that there is really not that much which separates all of us.

The book is available from all good Canadian bookstores and on-line from Windshift Press On-Line .

Frankfurt Book Fair Excitement

We will have a shelf of Windshift Press books at the Frankfurt Bookfair this October. For those of you who are new to the world of publishing the Frankfurt Bookfair is the premiere bookfair in the world. With 16,000 editors, agents, movie scouts and other publishing professionals from around the world looking for new projects it is a terrific opportunity.

In 2005 the total number of visitors to the Frankfurt Bookfair on all five days of the Fair was 284,838 people.

Frankfurt Book Fair

Find us at the Foreword Magazine Collective - H8 - L980 - Hall 8 (English speaking hall) Row L, Booth 980

If you are taking in the Fair, plan to stop by the stand and check out our great titles.

So along with our regular local and regional book promotions we are particularly busy this autumn. Watch our calendar of events to see if your favourite author is visiting your town.