tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11650440371268652702024-02-20T11:14:57.198-08:00Eileen Kernaghan's blogEileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-17719886232854792052019-05-31T14:45:00.003-07:002019-05-31T14:45:53.186-07:00A new interview by Casey June Wolfhttp://finedayscriptorium.blogspot.com/Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-60541141888959909972018-11-23T11:59:00.000-08:002018-11-25T19:16:00.838-08:00The Snow Queen in Academia
I was very pleased to learn that my YA novel The Snow Queen (Thistledown Press) is included in the curriculum of a Trent University English course.
Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-68642759743880257572018-06-07T14:35:00.001-07:002018-06-07T14:41:27.854-07:00Discovered while websurfing: an article of mine in the Chinese Encyclopedia The Nameless Religion: an overview of Bon shamanism
http://www.chinabuddhismencyclopedia.com/en/index.php?title=The_nameless_religion:_an_overview_of_Bon_shamanism
Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-44332088677380028212018-01-07T20:54:00.001-08:002018-01-07T20:54:14.913-08:00 BC Booklook, November 2014 "Shadow in British India"Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-78615166262420132472017-05-17T12:04:00.001-07:002017-05-17T12:04:42.030-07:00Charlotte's Library review of Sophie in Shadow
From Charlotte's Library: one of my best reviews ever.
http://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.ca/2014/05/sophie-in-shadow-by-eileen-kernaghan.html
Tragedy and culture-shock combine to wake in Sophie a gift of sorts--her
perceptions of both past and future become strangely sharpened. And her
visions will make her a player in the tail end of Kipling's Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-55820039252655622552017-05-17T11:45:00.002-07:002017-05-17T11:47:09.093-07:00Discovered while websurfing
I've just come across this 2012 article from the online Daily Mail. It seems that my imaginary drowned world off the coast of England actually existed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2167731/Britains-Atlantis-North-sea--huge-undersea-kingdom-swamped-tsunami-5-500-years-ago.html
Songs from the Drowned Lands cover art by Barclay Shaw
Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-4515299213171377222017-01-19T12:25:00.002-08:002017-01-19T12:25:21.211-08:00Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-34587057328919308772016-12-06T14:04:00.002-08:002016-12-06T14:26:01.642-08:00A Literary Launch & Swordfighting Salon
Sunday 18 December, 2pm – 6pm
at Academie Duello School for Swordplay
412 W Hastings, Vancouver BC
This will be an entertaining afternoon of swordfighting and author readings. We have nine local authors lined up to read, including CC Humphreys, JJ Lee, Eileen Kernaghan and Sebastien de Castell
Tea will be served, and there will be a selection of baked goods and afternoon delicacies. Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-28081248956154174812016-11-20T15:51:00.002-08:002016-11-20T15:51:09.405-08:00Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-79357504964882447922016-10-31T13:23:00.000-07:002016-10-31T13:55:10.381-07:00As we move into the holiday gift-giving season, a friendly reminder that my YA novel The Snow Queen -- a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic story -- is still very much in print after sixteen years.
Winner of the 2001 Aurora Award for Best Long Form Work in English! In this reworking of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, the magical worlds of Saami shamanism and Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-55190153040136640172016-09-14T20:42:00.001-07:002016-09-14T20:42:27.576-07:00I'm honoured to be sharing a Poetic Justice reading on Sunday, September 18, 3 to 5 p.m. with Ottawa poet Henry Beissel. At the age of 87, Beissel is touring western Canada to promote his latest book. www.henrybeissel.com/ Poetic Justice meets on Third Sundays of each month in Boston Pizza's party room, Columbia Square, New Westminster.Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-72744626929845628502016-07-03T15:00:00.001-07:002016-07-03T15:07:12.966-07:00Growing Up Weird in Grindrod<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-82707037336147983822016-05-19T22:18:00.000-07:002016-05-19T22:18:01.208-07:00Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-3720814878824846632016-01-17T16:11:00.000-08:002016-01-17T18:07:55.456-08:00Resource Links review of Sophie, in Shadow
..."The setting of this novel is excellent and the reader will be easily drawn into the foreign sights, smells and tastes of the India of a hundred years ago. Dialogue is sharp and cleverly advances the plot and character development. A strong message about class inequality runs throughout the novel... the ominous news of WWI battles, the horror of the number of dead, and the personal sadnessEileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-82501980954073740162015-11-15T16:34:00.002-08:002015-11-23T15:57:01.003-08:00A Winter's Tale
Before there was Frozen, there was The Snow Queen (Thistledown Press 2004 ) -- now available as an e-book
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-ca/ebook/the-snow-queen-8
amazon kindle e-book\
Snowdrifts clung to the window ledges of the Snow Queen's palace. The tall arched panes glittered with a wintry, ice-blue light. The great doors of crystal and silver stood ajar, Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-90557036382051646332015-10-13T14:57:00.000-07:002015-10-13T14:57:07.978-07:00Accidental Adventurers: The Heroines of YA <!--[if !mso]>
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Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-85206656834178070592015-06-22T15:18:00.000-07:002015-06-22T15:18:28.897-07:00Sophie, in Shadow makes the finalist list for the 2015 Sunburst AwardsExcellent news this morning: Sophie, in Shadow is on the shortlist for this year's Sunburst Awards, in the YA category.
2015 Sunburst Awards finalists announced
Monday, June 22, 2015 | 0
The Sunburst Award Society has
announced the shortlists for the 2015 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in
Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, which honours speculative fiction
in three categories:Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-20667439332577799082015-06-01T14:09:00.002-07:002015-06-01T16:31:06.016-07:00
I opened my e-mail this morning to read the announcement of the Long List for the 2015 Sunburst Awards (Canadian Literature of the Fantastic), and was thrilled to find Sophie, in Shadow on the YA list.
From the official website: The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is a juried award which recognizes exceptional writing in three categories: Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-15021382749596965272015-04-27T11:07:00.002-07:002015-04-27T11:11:03.390-07:00From Babylon to India
Ruth Kozak and I will be reading from our recent historical novels, Shadow of the Lion and Sophie, in Shadow, June 10th at the Vancouver Public Library Central Branch.
Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-80887245381653437982015-04-24T10:28:00.001-07:002015-04-24T10:31:07.990-07:00Analogies and Myths
David C. Kopaska Merkel reviews my 2009 poetry collection Tales from the Holograph Woods at Amazon. com. " This is a wonderful book and I think you need to read it. After you do, it will probably stick with you." From "Wild things":
out of the midnight forestthey follow you home like shadowthey live in your walls and raftersin forgotten backs of cupboardsyou know their Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-57542728453630249342015-04-23T17:31:00.000-07:002015-04-23T17:31:23.495-07:00From 49th Shelf: Quick-Hits Strange and Otherworldly " In Quick Hits, we look through our stacks to bring you books that, when
they were published, elicited a lot of reaction and praise. Our
selections will include books published this year, last year, or any
year. They will be from any genre. The best books are timeless, and they
deserve to find readers whenever and wherever."
Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-56773124770031845202015-04-10T10:50:00.002-07:002015-04-10T10:50:30.487-07:00Sophie, in Shadow is reviewed in the University of British Columbia's 2015 Ubyssey Book Supplement. "In an endless sea of pale girls peering out from under dark bangs
plastered on every book cover in the young adult section of Chapters,
Eileen Kernaghan’s newest novel, Sophie, in Shadow, stands out against the masses."Eileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-13205888033539539652015-03-18T14:06:00.002-07:002015-03-18T14:11:44.745-07:00May 2nd writers' workshop at Port Moody Library
"Get Published: Explore Your Options"
" Calling all writers: are you working on a manuscript and need some help with
editing and query letters? Are you wondering which publication method is
best for you? There are so many choices with traditional, self and
e-publishing options available."
On Saturday, May 2, bring your questions to the Port Moody Public
Library’s interactive eventEileen Kernaghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03688791868644018160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165044037126865270.post-63063104326057302322015-03-12T16:01:00.000-07:002015-03-12T15:13:35.325-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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