escape from darken hall castleSome projects are just too cute to resist, even though you aren’t sure what exactly will come of them. I was a bit skeptical when approached to edit and then design a book written by an 8 year old – what was I getting myself into? Does an 8 year old even know the word stet? The story, however, was charming (and pre-edited by adults) and those in charge of getting the book to print weren’t skipping any details. In the end a quite-lovely little book (professionally printed, with illustrations by Freeda LeBlanc) was launched on October 24 in Moncton. It certainly has received more press than any other project I’ve been involved with. The CBC story below has received nearly 3000 shares.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/isabelle-stewart-moncton-author-book-1.3290310

For more about Escape from Darken Hall Castle, here’s the Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/Escape-from-Darken-Hall-Castle-175252326147348

Published by Lee D. Thompson

Lee D. Thompson is a professional editor and book designer and sometimes writer whose fiction has been published in anthologies, including Random House’s Victory Meat, New Fiction from Atlantic Canada and Vagrant Press’s The Vagrant Revue of New Fiction, and in literary journals across Canada and the US. Lee’s first "novel", S. a novel in [xxx] dreams, was published in 2008 by Fredericton’s Broken Jaw Press. A chapbook, mouth human must die, appeared with Frog Hollow Press in 2017 and he won the David Adams Richards Prize that same year. In addition to writing fiction, Lee is a guitarist and songwriter.

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