{"id":2928,"date":"2023-10-30T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2023-10-30T19:10:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T23:10:36","slug":"breakfast-january-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-january-20-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Meeting January 20, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lisa de Nikolits has been hailed as \u201cthe Queen of Canadian speculative fiction\u201d. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Originally from South Africa, she is the award-winning author of eleven published novels (Inanna Publications). She has appeared on recommended reading lists for Open Book Toronto, 49th<\/sup>\u00a0Shelf, All Lit Up, The Miramichi Reader\u00a0Chatelaine<\/i>,\u00a0Canadian Living, Hello!,\u00a0<\/i>the\u00a0Quill & Quire,\u00a0<\/i>and the<\/span>\u00a0CBC.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span>The Occult Persuasion and The Anarchist\u2019s Solution<\/span><\/i>\u00a0was longlisted for a Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of The Fantastic and\u00a0The Rage Room<\/i>\u00a0was a finalist in the International Book Awards, 2021.\u00a0Everything You Dream is Real<\/i>\u00a0is a sequel to\u00a0The Rage Room<\/i>\u00a0or read it as a standalone. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Her short fiction and poetry have been published in various international anthologies and journals including the Crime Writers of Canada\u2019s 40th<\/sup>\u00a0Anniversary anthology (2022).<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

No Fury Like That\u00a0<\/span><\/i>was published in Italian in 2019 by Edizione Le Assassine under the title\u00a0Una furia dell\u2019altro mondo.<\/i>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mad Dog and the Sea Dragon\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(coming 2024),\u00a0<\/span>a hardboiled noir thriller, is set to be published in spring 2023 and has garnered advance praise, including this endorsement by acclaimed author Trevor Cole: \u201c<\/span>Here, finally, is a mob story from the moll\u2019s perspective. Filled with entertaining twists and turns, and dreamers and schemers up to no good, de Nikolits\u2019s zany new novel proves that life for a mobster\u2019s moll may not be all fun and games, but it sure is fun reading.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Lisa de Nikolits has lived in Canada since 2000. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Philosophy and has lived in the U.S.A., Australia and Britain. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Her website is:\u00a0<\/span>www.lisawriter.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0and she has an active social media presence on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lisa de Nikolits has been hailed as \u201cthe Queen of Canadian speculative fiction\u201d. \u00a0 Originally from South Africa, she is the award-winning author of eleven published novels (Inanna Publications). She has appeared on recommended reading lists for Open Book Toronto, 49th\u00a0Shelf, All Lit Up, The Miramichi Reader\u00a0Chatelaine,\u00a0Canadian Living, Hello!,\u00a0the\u00a0Quill & Quire,\u00a0and the\u00a0CBC.\u00a0The Occult Persuasion and … Continue reading Breakfast Meeting January 20, 2024<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2024"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8RivX-Le","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}