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Bruce W. Bishop launches Stephanie Makes a Scene

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia / Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia
Location:
1113 Marginal Rd, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://brucebishopauthor.com/
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Member event

Join Bruce W. Bishop and friends for the launch of his fifth book, Stephanie Makes a Scene, a novella follow-up to 2024’s Grow up, Rory Rafferty.

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Sixty-seven year old Stephanie Whittaker has spent 40 years waiting for her theatrical breakthrough. She travels home to Nova Scotia to mount her magnum opus – a reimagining of Anne of Green Gables – only to have the theatre’s shady administrator cancel the show and attempt to sell an Americanized rip-off to a producer in Maine.
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Refusing to be erased, Stephanie teams up with a handsome local chef and a spunky cast of volunteers to stage her play in a deconsecrated church, exposing a money-laundering ring and proving that a woman’s true crowning achievements can happen in her third act.
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Launch Moderator: Vernon Ramesar, CBC Nova Scotia journalist
Book sales courtesy of Anne O’Connell, OC Publishing
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Bruce W. Bishop is a Halifax-based author of four 20th century historical fiction novels, Unconventional Daughters, Uncommon Sons, Undeniable Relations, and Grow up, Rory Rafferty, all published in affiliation with Icarus Press Publishing in Fredericton, N.B.

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