M93 is “New & Hot” at Indigo
Messenger 93 was featured on Sherway Gardens Indigo YA Book Club as a pick, and also on the ‘New & Hot’ and ‘New Releases’ Shelf in the physical store!
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Excerpt of M93 appears in Town Crier (The Puritan)
Posted July 13, 2020 | Link to post: towncrier.puritan-magazine.com/barbara-radecki-messenger-93/ [Excerpt] Placards stabbed the spaces around me. Calls and chants echoed in my ears. Tourists and suits blocked my way as they stopped to watch. Then I saw him. Standing apart from the crowd, outside the circle of dancers. Tweed cap, black hoodie, over-stuffed backpack strapped to…
Article by Barbara Radecki on writing M93: The White Saviour and Saving the World in Messenger 93
Posted July 16, 2020 at towncrier.puritan-magazine.com/barbara-radecki-white-saviour-messenger-93/ This article, written by Barbara Radecki on her book Messenger 93, is presented in partnership with moorehype. I got the idea for Messenger 93, my second novel, years before I began to write it. It came soon after a teenager told me that her white boyfriend believed he was Jesus reincarnated. From…
Video: Bibliovideo interview
Bibliovideo is a news channel dedicated to Canadian books for young readers. The Q&A clip from my Messenger 93 (Virtual) Book Launch is featured here. Diane Terrana asks me some great questions!
Video: Reading for CBC Books
CBC Books hosted several authors reading from their books in the summer of 2020. Here I am reading the first chapter from Messenger 93.
Interview with The Miramichi Reader
Posted: MARCH 25, 2020 BY JAMES M. FISHER Link to original article “In seven days, she will fall,” say the crows. “As she falls, so do we all.” Who falls? wonders M. The ominous, supernatural message starts M on a quest that could save more than one life. But what if the person in danger happens to…
Interview – The Varsity: A creative impulse is a “direct route to your higher self”
Author, actress, and UTM instructor Barbara Radecki on creative inspiration By Selena Mercuri; Published: 12:46 am, 16 January 2017 on thevarsity.ca (Link to post) Author Barbara Radecki is an accomplished actress and writer. Her new novel, The Darkhouse, is about Gemma, a young girl who discovers the dark truth about her identity and her father’s…
Interview – Talk to me #7 : Barbara Radecki, with daughters Stefanie and Michele
Posted May 2016 on DontTalktoMeAboutLove.org Where you learned to love. Barbara: The easy answer is that I learned to love at home. I have loving parents and sisters and I grew up in a safe environment. But when I was a child, my parents were very busy and often away and my independence was both…
Interview: Coffee House Chat – January 10, 2017
(Posted on Facebook by DontTalktoMeAboutLove, January 10, 2017 Link to Post) #TheDarkhouse #CoffeeHouseChats #SailorNeptune Alex Risen and I are sitting down with a pensive Barbara Radecki, as she talks about acting, writing, and her penchant for very dark stories. CBC named her first novel, The Darkhouse, one of the five best YA novels of 2016.…
