OTTAWA, April 3, 2026 — Yet again, my intentions to post regular updates have fallen victim to the reality that the BumblePuppy Press is still a one-man operation, and that being a dad takes pride of place on my list of priorities. (Indeed, she is working on a project of her own behind me as I type, but has already started to wonder, “When can you play with me?”)
Not that I am complaining; being a papa is the great joy of my life, and this year has been incredible. Within a month and a half of starting grade one, my brilliant daughter (no doubt with considerable help from her remarkable little school, which bases its pedagogy on the no-homework Finnish educational system) was writing in cursive and reading! Since then, she has written and illustrate a 40-page story, L’histoire du pomme (see above), among many other accomplishments.
As any number of mothers and grandmothers told me in the early days, “Enjoy it while you can — it goes so fast!”
All that said, it’s National Poetry month, and what better way to celebrate than to explore Adrienne Stevenson and Marie-Andrée Auclair’s marvellous collaboration, Skipping Stones?
That is what we do, throw our poems on the page
of a common lake, what sinks quickly is culled
what uncoils its energy in many rebounds stays,
a blended poem for our venture, another bird in the sky
— From the titular poem in Skipping Stones
Of course, that’s not all …
If verse just isn’t your thing, we do have a lot of prose on offer as well, from Rachel A. Rosen’s all-too plausible near-future Sleep of Reason series to Zilla Novikov’s very funny time-travel romance, Reprise, Carl Dow’s eclectic collection of stories, The Old Man’s Last Sauna and his historical adventure-romance, Black Grass, to our most recent offering, The Inclusive Winnie-the-Pooh.
Our books are available at the usual online vendors and, of course, in our own shop – if you want the books in paper, dare I suggest you order your copies now, rather than wait for the inevitable price increases?
Happy Easter egg hunting to those who celebrate that remarkable bunny!
Geoffrey Dow, publisher
