Creative Aging Books & Ideas
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT EVENTS
FALL 2025 and WINTER 2026
Join Jen Tindall and me for our highly popular series of fun, informative, interactive virtual author events, with a stunning line up of award-winning authors that you absolutely will not want to miss!
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2 P.M.
BARB DRUMMOND
Amazon Bestseller, and winner of the Literary Titan Book Award, and International Impact Book Award
The initial obituary that Barb Drummond wrote at the time of her mother’s passing was meant to honour the vibrant, lively, oh-so-funny and witty Sybil Hicks, her cherished mom who had Alzheimer’s for almost two decades. The obit ran in the Hamilton Spectator newspaper and went viral within a 24-hour time period.
The demand to know more from the legions of fans who read Sybil’s obituaty as penned by Barb, inspired her to write her award-winning book, “I Finally Have The Smoking Hot Body I Have Always Wanted…Having Been Cremated.”
This poignant, hilarious, and award-winning memoir is both a must-read for anyone who has family or friends coping with Alzheimer’s, as well as a must-attend event so you too can join the conversation as Cece chats with Barb.
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Read Cece’s review of “I Finally Have the Smoking Hot Body… Having Been Cremated,” as it appeared on the popular book and author influencer site CANREADS.CA
I Finally Have the Smoking Hot Body…Having Been Cremated
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2.p.m.
SUSAN SWAN
Susan Swan is a Toronto novelist and non-fiction writer with international publications and a professor emerita at York University. She is also co-founder of The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the largest literary prize in the world for Canadian and American women and non-binary fiction authors. Her latest book, “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” is a memoir about the way her size shaped her life.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2.p.m.
SUSAN WADDS
Winner of the 2024 Canadian Book Club Award and 2024 Indies Finalist for her novel, “What the Living Do,” and the 2016 Writer’s Union of Canada’s Prose Contest, Susan Wadds’ work has appeared in various publications, including carteblanche, The Blood Pudding, Room, and Waterwheel Review. A graduate of the Humber School for Writers and a proud member of The Writers Union of Canada and The Canadian Authors Association, Susan is a certified Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) workshop facilitator. She grew up in Montreal, Toronto, and London Ontario, and has lived in British Columbia, India, France, and Italy. She’s sort of settled down and currently lives on a quiet river on Williams Treaty land in traditional Anishinaabe territory with an odd assortment of humans and cats.
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2026 HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🙂
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2 p.m
TERRY FALLIS
A two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, Terry Fallis is the award-winning author of nine national bestsellers, all published by McClelland & Stewart (M&S). His tenth novel, The Marionette, is to be released in October 2025.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2.p.m.
JESSICA WAITE
Photo credit: Phil Crozier
Jessica will be in conversation with Cece as she reads from The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards. Part memoir, part survival guide—this book takes a sharp, unflinching look at grief, resilience, and what it takes to rebuild when life knocks you flat. Jessica’s debut was a Globe 100 Best Book of 2024, a Washington Post Notable Book, and an instant national bestseller, earning Jessica a 2024 Doris Anderson Award from Châtelaine Magazine. Come for the laughs, the truths, and the company of others who may raise eyebrows at the audacity of this story.
Jessica will be in conversation with Cece Scott and YOU!
Read my review of Jessica’s book here: The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards – cecescott.com
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https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/skroAQM7TPuYqXZ9gWYD5g