Archive for December 2013

Happy Saturnalia

ay the ginger cat in the window

I’ve been catching up with life and working on other media projects this month, and family stuff necessarily trumps all at this time of year, even for secular celebrants.

The problem is that “The Girl In the Blue Flame Cafe” is still a WIP. That must be my priority after Christmas.

I don’t generally do New Year’s resolutions, but I’m thinking I might this year. Clearly it is far too easy for everything else to interfere with both my writing and my self publishing. Self Publisher’s set our own deadlines. The downside is that it is far too easy to change them when encountering unchangable deadlines for other things.

So I need to reinvest myself in my real work, so I think my New Year’s Resolution is that 2014 will be my Year of The Book.

Happy Holidays!

Lani Russwurm’s book debut

Lani Russwurm, historian, blogger and author

Lani Russwurm, historian, blogger and author

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My younger brother Lani Russwurm was already a veteran blogger when I began my first blog; I appreciate his advice to use WordPress.

Past Tense Vancouver Histories banner

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Since moving to BC, Lani’s interest in history took him  to  Simon Fraser University, where his thesis studies led  to his first blog about Vancouver history as “Past Tense Vancouver“, on WordPress and Tumblr.

A few years ago he added a related Vancouver history blog to his repertoire.  “Vancouver Was Awesome” blog became a regular feature on the popular Vancouver Is Awesome site.

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Which brings us to this year, with  the publication of  Lani’s first book, “Vancouver Was Awesome” for Arsenal Pulp Press.

"Vancouver Was Awesome" by Lani Russwurm You don’t have to be a history buff or a Vancouverite to appreciate stories like the one about young Boris Karloff’s near ruination.

Or the one about a rampaging squirrel.

And Vancouver’s Jazz Age.

Stories about the wild politicians, artists and free thinkers that hammered out the foundation of the premier city of the Canada’s Left Coast.

Lani’s eclectic mix of tales about the first several decades of the life of Vancouver are richly illustrated with cool archival photos of life the way it used to be.

If you like the blog, you’ll love the book.

And as Vancouver Is Awesome suggests, Lani’s book  debut “Vancouver Was Awesome” will make a fabulous Christmas gift.

Congratulations Lani!

 


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