Quiet Grace
This wet and green May morning I’m sitting in a log cabin next to the Bushkill Creek, drinking coffee, dog by my side, My Best Beloved in the chair by the big window, which is filled with the sweet green leaves of spring. It’s raining today, so green is greener, tree trunks are browner, the…
Read MoreThe First Cathedral, With Angels
It’s Easter Sunday morning and I am sitting behind my house, near the liminal space marking the border between the garden and the Wild Wood. I am watching for the foxes. The vixen and her three kits. For several years a family of foxes has taken up residence in the complicated, many-entranced den where once…
Read MoreReading in Dark Times
It can be difficult for me to remain cheery in the midst of world events. It’s hard to remember that all things are born, live and die into transformation, only to repeat the cycle over and over again. This is true, I believe of all sentient things, as well as eras, cultures, nations, planets… The…
Read MoreA Little Chat….
For anyone who might be interested, here’s a link to a radio chat I did on CHFM 99.3 with the lovely Jamie Tennant. Lots of talk about the opioid crisis, fairytales, the power of narrative and, of course, THE GRIMOIRE OF KENSINGTON MARKET. Hope you enjoy it!!
Read MoreIn Which I Mourn a Small (?) Life
I’m not sure many people are going to identify with this, but I lost a friend today. Not a human friend. Not even a mammal friend… but a little snake. He felt masculine to me, and so I named him Otisssss. He lived in and around our pond for five years and I came to…
Read MoreBooks I loved in 2018
I don’t know how I managed to read over a hundred books this year, especially since it’s been a publishing year. My own novel, THE GRIMOIRE OF KENSINGTON MARKET, was published by Buckrider Books/Wolsak & Wynn in October and has thankfully been well received by critics and readers alike. But, what does a writer do…
Read MoreCBC and The Globe & Mail
I’m beyond thrilled that THE GRIMOIRE OF KENSINGTON MARKET has been named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Globe & Mail. Also delighted to be chatting about the book on CBC’s “The Riff” with Shelagh Rogers. It’s only three minutes… so if you’re interested, please click here and have a listen!
Read MoreAn Essay/Review on THE GRIMOIRE OF KENSINGTON MARKET
Sometimes one says the review’s so good one could have written it oneself. In this case, I don’t think I could have. I suspect Ms. McCauley has been wandering around my head while I sleep. Lauren B. Davis’ The Grimoire of Kensington Market Reviewed by Marcie McCauley Wolsak & Wynn, 2018 Dear Reader: a book…
Read MoreRave Review for THE GRIMOIRE OF KENSINGTON MARKET
What a way to start the weekend. I couldn’t be more grateful. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/reviews/2018/10/26/alchemy-of-magic-a-fairytale-and-the-opioid-crisis-in-powerful-new-book.html Alchemy of magic, a fairytale and the opioid crisis in powerful new book By TREVOR CORKUM Special to the Star Fri., Oct. 26, 2018 The Grimoire of Kensington Market, Lauren B. Davis, Wolsak and Wynn, 350 pages, $22. Lauren B. Davis, author of The…
Read MoreWriter’s Block of Ice Breaks Up!
Thank you, everyone, for your support during a dry spell, for encouraging, and listening, and understanding this fragile writer. I’ve learned some things, and I want to pass that on, so let’s talk process. It goes like this: I begin a novel. Oh, the golden glory and silver slide of words from mind to finger to…
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