These Are Not the Words

APRIL 5, 2022

I’m Miranda Billie Taylor.

I make sense of the world with words.

Miranda is called Missy for short, and she lives in the most exciting city in the world. She goes to a great school where she learns about poetry, music and plays. She has a best friend she has known forever, and two cats named Stan and Ollie.

Most of all, Missy has cool parents. Her mother goes to art school, and her father is a drummer who works in advertising and takes Missy on secret midnight excursions to Harlem and the Village so she can share his love of jazz. Missy and her father write poems for each other — poems that gradually become an exchange of apologies as his alcohol and drug addiction begin to take over their lives.

Based on the events and people of Amanda West Lewis’s own childhood, this poignant and poetic story is set against the thrum and grit of New York City’s legendary jazz scene in the 1960s.

UPCOMING EVENTS

LAUNCHES, APPEARANCES, EXCITING NEW HAPPENINGS

These Are Not the Words launched into the world on April 5! Books are now available at your favourite bookstore

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• March 1- 31: I was Writer in Residence at OPEN BOOK https://open-book.ca/Writer-in-Residence 

• See the video of the book LAUNCH featuring an in-person conversation with Tim Wynne-Jones at Carleton Dominion Chalmers Cultural Centre, Ottawa. 

• APRIL 20, 7:00 P.M. I'll be reading and signing at Novel Idea in Kingston

• MAY 8, 2:00 p.m: I'm doing an in-person launch at The Book Nook in Perth, Ontario. 

STAY TUNED FOR LOTS MORE!