Hi friends,
Fair warning: this one has nothing to do with Ottawa, Washington or anybody’s tariff schedule. If you’re only here for the politics, you can close this with my blessing. I’ll see you back here tomorrow, Sunday, with a great post about Maureen McTeer.
Still here? Good.
In January 1998, freezing rain fell on Quebec and eastern Ontario for days. Power lines snapped under the ice, hydro towers crumpled, and millions of people lost power, some for weeks, in the middle of a Canadian winter. The army was called in. Neighbours who had never said more than “cold enough for ya?” to each other were suddenly sharing woodstoves, generators and whatever was left in the freezer.
I’ve always thought it’s the most Canadian disaster story there is. Nobody rioted. Everybody shared. A lot of people ended up sleeping in church basements and their cousin’s living room, and somehow that turned into a good memory.
So I wrote a love story set in it. The Long Thaw is a second-chance romance: two people with history, a province without power, and nowhere else to go. It’s short, it’s warm (the irony isn’t lost on me), and it’s free.
It’s also not alone. I joined a group promotion on BookFunnel with other romance authors, so The Long Thaw sits on a whole shelf of free novels. If you’ve spent this year doomscrolling the news alongside me, think of this as the antidote. Pick a few, load them on your phone or e-reader, and spend a weekend somewhere nobody is announcing a trade war.
The honest fine print: the books are free, but most authors in these promos (me included) ask for your email in exchange. That’s how indie authors find readers without a big publishing house behind them. You can unsubscribe from any of us anytime, no hard feelings.
Browse the free romance shelf → https://ash-wood.link/sweet-books
The promo runs until Nov. 30th, so grab what you want before then.
If you're a paid subscriber of The Sanity Project, you already have this book, and you'll get all books for free (included as a bonus in your paid subscription), but feel free to check this link and grab other romance books as well: https://ash-wood.link/sweet-books
Back to regularly scheduled sanity tomorrow with a great article on Maureen McTeer, the politician’s wife who enraged a nation by refusing to change her name.
Bo
P.S. Do you know someone who reads a romance a week and pretends not to? Forward this. They’ll thank you.
Wow I remember this so strongly. And I'm on the West Coast. Yes, such an important event.
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