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November 6, 2019
Roy Blomstrom, author of SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR, will be speaking to the Writer's Circle, a Thunder Bay writing group, on November 27 at 7 PM at the Waverley Branch of the Thunder Bay Public Library.
Among the topics: why write about this war an...
September 24, 2019
Most writers love autumn--the school supplies alone serve as bewitching reminders that blank pages invite new work.
Autumn is also harvest time, when the work of sun and water (and minerals and and and and) bears fruit.
We've got some new, fun projects on our calendar f...
June 26, 2019
SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR is now available at the Finnish Bookstore! Part of The Kitchen Nook (which has a gift registry and lots of cool things), the Finnish Bookstore is conveniently located at Bay and Algoma.
Much of SILENCES is set in Por...
June 19, 2019
Roy Blomstrom, author of SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR will speak this Saturday at FinnFest. He is part of the 11 to noon time slot, in conversation with Liisa Kovala and Mark Munger. All three have written historical fiction based on the North Americ...
June 5, 2019
Roy Blomstrom, author of SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR, will speak on Saturday, June 22, 2019, at some point between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. With vendors and concerts and other interesting speakers, plan to spend the day!
May 22, 2019
Coming June 20 - 22, Finn Festival celebrates Finnish culture in North America. Roy Blomstrom, author of SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR, will be among those speaking at the event.
The weekend has lots of fun events in store--music, dances, reunions, sa...
March 20, 2019
Roy Blomstrom, author of SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR, is participating in a writing event on April 4.
Sponsored by NOWW (the Northwestern Ontario Writers Workshop), Ask an Author gives writers and readers an opportunity to engage with Jeannette Lyne...
January 9, 2019
We have some fun "thoughts" for 2019--not some are not so much "plans" yet as "possibilities."
One includes publishing another title by Roy Blomstrom. He's not only hard at work on a companion novel to SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR. He also has a few n...
December 19, 2018
Sue Simonsen, a Thunder Bay fixture, recently launched her memoir, THE TIMES OF MY LIFE.
Born in the Lakehead, Simonsen was educated in Toronto, North Carolina, and at Lakehead University, and focused on twin passions: social programming and education.
She found many si...