Tag: scholastic

First in-person presentation for Under Attack

It was such a pleasure to speak with grade 4/5 students from Paris Central students at the Brant County Library in Paris. These students were well-read and had great questions. My favourite? Did you write this book on a typewriter? I didn’t, but I do have a really old typewriter in the basement — it’s from 1915!

Romanian author copies have arrived!

Isn’t this a stunningly beautiful book? It is the Booklet Fiction Romanian-English bilingual edition, which is available in Romania and Moldova. The inside is equally beautiful, with each page spread in English on one side and Romanian on the other, and perfectly aligned to the letter. Thank you, Maral Maclagan and Scholastic Canada, for all your international rights brilliance!

First open-to-the-public event for Under Attack

It was such a pleasure to introduce my book to a friendly group of avid readers at Riverside Bookshop in Paris Ontario. Proprietor, Alison Fishburn, really knows how to pamper an author, as you can see here, I even got a throne!

Thank you, also, to the Brant County Health System Foundation and their READBCHS.ca initiative.

I am also very impressed with the energy and talent behind the new Brantblog.ca. Sergio had written a lovely article a few days ago about my upcoming launch, but then also came to the launch and covered it as well. Here’s that article:

https://brantblog.ca/2025/01/17/author-marsha-skrypuch-launches-new-book-under-attack-in-paris/

This review made my day

Thank you, Becky, for this wonderful review of Under Attack.

I am particularly gratified with this paragraph:

My thoughts: What a novel!!!! Truly I cannot do the book justice. It’s an incredible read from cover to cover. I am not surprised–I’d expect nothing less from Skrypuch. She excels at everything–writing, plotting, characterization. But it is the characterization that particularly wows me every time. Because though it shouldn’t be rare, it mostly is. The depth of characterization is outstanding. It isn’t just that there’s depth and substance of the main character, but it is how expansive the characterization is. There’s no shortcuts, no character too small to not get treated as important. It makes it impossible not to get invested and thoroughly absorbed in the story.

awesome review of Under Attack by