A Place for People Like Us included in All Lit Up's Holiday Gift Guide, and in Jewish Book World, plus an Interview with Selena Mercuri for her wonderful Coffee Dates Series

I was so excited to see A Place for People Like Us included in All Lit Up ‘s Gift Guide among some of my favourite books of this year, including books by Jean Marc Ah Sen, Liz Harmer, Sophie McCreesh and Fawn Parker, Shani Mootoo, Lauren Carter, Ben Zalkind, Evelyn Lau, Elise Levine ,Sachi Nag, Valerie Bah, Lea Taranto, Leslie Shimotakahara Kate Cayley and more 💗💗💗 plus, they offer a 10 percent discount if you order directly from them this month. You can see the full list of awesome book recommendations by genre here:

https://alllitup.ca/gift-their-next/

I was also so happy to see A Place for People Like Us in Jewish Book World today, thank you so, so much

https://jewishbookworld.org/2025/11/a-place-for-people-like-us-by-danila-botha/

It was also so much fun to do this interview with Selena Mercuri. Selena is amazing. She has tireless energy, does a seemingly endless amount for the writing community (including doing her MFA at Guelph and doing her own beautiful writing) and interviewing authors for her Coffee Date Series. I was delighted to get chat with her about writing, books and some of favourite recent reads including amazing books by Catherine Bush, Lynda Williams, Hollay Ghadery, Salma Hussain, Danielle Daniel and Kate Gies 🧡🧡🧡📚you can read it in full here:

https://coffeedateswithauthors.substack.com/p/a-coffee-date-with-danila-botha