DANILA BOTHA

What an incredible night. Thank you so much to the Independent Press Award for this honour, and for creating such a special event. It was so much fun to celebrate with all of these amazing authors 💗💗thank you to Heather Wood for best photos and company ever, and for such amazing publicity 🧡🧡🧡📚 🥳. thank you also, as always, to my amazing publisher Guernica Editions, my amazing publisher and editor, Michael Mirolla, Connie McParland, David Moratto, the amazing designer,

One of the great joys of my life as an author is being asked by other authors (or sometimes their publicists or agents or editors) to read and if I love it, to blurb their work and share what I loved about it. I I love to read, and reading consumes hours of my day, every day, so requests like these always make me happy. So much of our time as authors is spent in front of our computers, imagining and engaging with and recreating characters, their worlds, their experiences. It’

I’m unbelievably grateful to the amazing team at At Bay Press and to the amazing authors and illustrators, whose work I love so much, for generously blurbing my first graphic novel, Vidal. Amy Kurzweil is one of my favourite graphic novelists and artists of all time, and I nearly cried when I read her blurb. It's safe to say, this book wouldn't exist if I hadn't read her work. I’m a huge fan of Adam Sol ‘s poetry and writing, and his work in the writing community and I’m so g

I had such an amazing time talking about A Place For People Like Us (Guernica Editions ) at Jewish Public Library‘s book club in Montreal. Aviva Rubin, author and interviewer extraordinaire asked such incredible, insightful questions and was an amazing host, and the readers asked amazing, in depth questions and had such detailed thoughts. Thank you so much to Aviva, Yael and the JPL for having me, and thank you so much to the amazing readers 💗💗💗I had the best time 🎉📚...

I had such an amazing time reading at The Palace Reading Series last week. Marisa Cadena and Rita Puskas were absolutely incredible, and E.M. Gallagher, Elliot Frances Flynn, and Alex Crowe were all amazing and so inspiring. And the audience and community were awesome. Thank you so much for the enthusiasm and all the love. I'm so grateful I got to be part of it 💗💗🧡🧡📚🎉

Grateful for my first ever Kirkus Reviews s and to see A Place For People Like Us in their pages. Thank you so much to my wonderful publisher Guernica Editions 💗 Kirkus describes it as “ Botha’s literary novel follows a young woman’s bumpy, spiritual journey… The narrative has much to offer. Hannah has a unique past, including the fact that she grew up in a cult… And her journey is fraught with tension…a compelling look at the comforts and controls of religious devotion.” T

I’m unbelievably happy and grateful - and emotional- to see the Advanced Reader Copy of Vidal, my first graphic novel, thanks to my wonderful publisher and the amazing team at At Bay Press 🧡😭📚🎉🎨 Grateful to my publisher Matt Joudrey, my editor Alana Brooker, designer Lucas Paul and Dani Arieli, as well as the amazing Heather Wood. This is such an emotional, I can’t believe this is really happening, moment. Even more so, this generous, incredible blurb from one of my lite

What a joy to be interviewed by the wonderful Suzanne Craig-Whytock(who is an amazing author of many books, publisher at DarkWinter Literary Magazine and host of the radio show Reader’s Delight) for her show, be aired next week, I will share the link as it's available🧡📚I got to talk about A Place For People Like Us and read from the opening chapter (Guernica Editions ) and I did my first interview talking about my new graphic novel Vidal (At Bay Press ) which will be out th

I had such a wonderful time talking about A Place For People Like Us with these wonderful women at Stefanie Goldschmied ‘s incredible book club, Stefinitely Reading. Thank you so much to for being such an amazing host and interviewer and to these amazing readers and their thoughtful, insightful questions. I had the best time reading, and talking and signing books. Thank you so much for having me 🧡🧡🧡📚

I had the most incredible time at Jewish Book Festival in Vancouver this week. I read from A Place For People Like Us alongside the brilliant Claire Sicherman, author of Bloom and answered insightful, thoughtful questions by Abby Wener Herlin and answered amazing questions. Our event, Women at Crossroads was so well attended, and I'm so grateful to everyone who came, who took photos and participated with such enthusiasm. It was so much fun to sign books (and to buy books) at