Christina Sunley's Blog

• Today is my launch party – and my late mother’s birthday

  March 4, 2009

  • It might appear to be odd timing, but it’s actually very auspicious. To put it simply, if it weren’t for my mother, I never would have written this book. I might have written a different novel, but not this one.  My mother was, after all, responsible for turning me into the nutty Icelandophile that I have become. And – granted, this is not unusual for mothers – she was also my biggest ...
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• Dreams of a debut novelist, on publication day

  March 4, 2009

  • I dream that people will love my book. Not everyone; but some, deeply.  I dream of plunging into my second novel. I dream of eating all the mint chocolate chip ice cream I want. (I think this dream came close to coming true yesterday.) Then there are the night dreams. Silly anxiety dreams like this one:  my entire wardrobe has been destroyed by an incompetent dry cleaner. I’m traipsing ...
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• A few days pre-publication

  February 28, 2009

  • I need to pause. To stop thinking about how many bottles of wine we need for the launch party and the fact that I haven’t posted to my blog in a week and I still haven’t bought my plane ticket to Winnipeg and and and … consider that I am finally here. On the verge of my first book being published. And also here right now on the couch in my living room at some ungodly hour. The animals are ...
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