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10/23/2026

🥁 A new author, a book announcement, and a cover reveal, all rolled into one! 🎀

It’s been in the works for a while. We’re finally ready to tell everyone how thrilled we are to publish Arlene F. Mark’s novella, Manua’s Children, as the stand-alone book it deserves to be.

Arlene has authored two literacy programs, an acclaimed collection of short speculative fiction, and over a dozen novels across several genres. We first crossed paths with Arlene as a guest on the Re-Creative podcast back in 2023… and we enjoyed the conversation so much, we just had to bring her on board.

Manua’s Children, a science fiction story of secrets, magic, and psychic abilities set in a fractured colony world, is coming out on January 4, 2027 – our first book of the new year!

More info on this exciting release, including pre-orders, will be dropping soon. Stay tuned!

10/21/2026

Chesney is out of the bag – and he’s exploring Atlantic Canada!

Join Annie and Chesney on their adventures in Graham Harrop’s latest comic collection, coming in just a few weeks from Donovan Street Press. The pair navigates the fog-bound lighthouses and rugged cliffs of the East Coast accompanied by the dry, observational wit that’s defined this renowned cartoonist’s career for over two decades.

Grab your copy of Annie and Chesney Visit the Maritimes, Newfoundland and Labrador on November 15!

Thank goodness we just had to publish this one, not draw it. ✏️

10/15/2026

It's that time again! Once every three years or so. :-)

Time to pester you about my new book!

"Captain's Away! Beausoleil" is officially available Nov 1st. We will be celebrating the launch Saturday Nov 28th 2-4pm at the Riverview Public Library. I will be asking my friends at the local Sobeys to make a cake for the occasion!

This novel is set in the same universe as my novel "A Time and a Place", but one thousand years in the future. With at least one of the same characters....

I hope to see you at the launch!

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One thousand years in the future, Earth is a distant memory. Seventeen-year-old Marie-Josée Doucette is responsible for hundreds of lives and an entire starship. While lying in a coma.

When her home space station, Evangeline, is obliterated in the opening volley of a war, Marie-Josée’s family and their fellow Acadians are cast adrift as refugees. But when a military experiment involving an ancient alien artifact goes catastrophically wrong, Marie-Josée’s consciousness is transferred into the body of a battle-scarred, forty-year-old starship captain: the commander of Beausoleil, a military vessel on a classified mission.

The crew needs a proper captain—not a teenager cosplaying one. A captain who can keep hostile aliens, murderous despots, and space itself from killing them. But when her second-in-command starts making reckless decisions that endanger everyone aboard, Marie-Josée must uncover the truth behind Beausoleil’s secret mission.

Desperate to get her own body back and terrified of being exposed as a fraud, Marie-Josée has no choice but to step up and figure out how to be a captain before the grown-ups get them all killed.

10/14/2026

It’s official: Shadows and Reflections: Diving in the Sea of Time by David Gerrold is a hit!

His newest collection has been reviewed in the Toronto Star, reached #1 as a Top New Release in Science Fiction ebooks on Amazon, and is getting 5 star reviews from readers like Blaire.

Have you read this incredible collection yet? Which story is your favourite?

10/08/2026

The Town of Riverview just kindly featured my business Donovan Street Press Inc. along with a couple of others on their website. We appreciate the support!

What happens when something you love becomes the way you make a living? For three Riverview entrepreneurs, it meant turning spare rooms into studios and creative ideas into businesses. As part of Small Business Month this October, Home Grown: Riverview’s Small Business Stories highlights local ent...

10/05/2026

Joe isn’t just the brains and behind-the-scenes here at Donovan Street Press… he was also our first author! (Or maybe second, just behind his dad… but that’s a debate for later.) With a CBC retirement in his recent past and a novel in his hand, Joe set out to help like-minded authors along his journey in the publishing industry.

His love of books sparked early: likely with that first Bobbsey Twins book, which quickly led into Heinlein, Asimov, and a deep dive into science fiction. As Joe says, once you get the reading bug, that’s it. You’re done for. 🤓

Joe’s writing process is slow but sure. If he can only live another few hundred years, DSP will certainly publish many, many more of his books!

He’s currently working on a science fiction sequel called Captain’s Away: Robo Kun. It’s a story so long in the making he forgets its inspiration – though the title combines robots and a personal interest in karate. But he’ll always be proudest of his first novel, A Time and A Place. Writing a book of your own? “Do it! Finish it! You won’t regret it!”

📖 Favourite author: Tim Powers. He writes amazing books! The only writer whose books I read one after the other until I’d finished them all.

📖 Favourite book at the moment: The one I’m reading! A biography of Kate Bush called Under the Ivy… can’t stop reading it every chance I get.

09/11/2026

A little over a year ago I heard a pitch for a book at a Pitch the Publisher event held by the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick. That book was The Druid and the Dragon by Paul Burns, a young adult fantasy. Perfect for Donovan Street Press!

I decided to take on and help Paul develop his novel for Donovan Street Press. We're both super pleased with the results, especially considering it has one of the best dragon characters I've ever read in a book: Nightwind, a funny, smart, egotistical, old and cranky dragon.

The Druid and the Dragon is now available everywhere fine books are sold (if a bookstore isn't selling it, maybe they're not selling the finest books? Just sayin'... )

And we will celebrate the publication of this fine book tomorrow, Saturday September 12th at 2pm in the Riverview Public Library.

We hope to see you there! There will be books, cake and coffee. What more do you need in life? :-)

09/08/2026

This coming Saturday afternoon, Sept 12th, 2pm I hope you'll join us at the Riverview Public Library for the launch of local author Paul Burns' novel The Druid and the Dragon.

There will be cake! Coffee! Fellowship! And maybe a short speech or two, along with copies of Paul's book.

You are under no obligation to attend, of course. But if you don't, it might make a certain already kind of grouchy dragon a little cranky. Just sayin'!

09/01/2026

Today we are proud to publish the tenth book by Donovan Street Press!

The Druid and the Dragon by Paul Burns.

Paul is an author from Riverview, New Brunswick. The Druid and the Dragon is his third book:

Sixteen-year-old Fraser Campbell knows what it’s like to face bullies—high school has made sure of that. But standing up to a few teenagers is nothing compared to facing a dark wizard.
When Nightwind, a grouchy old dragon, whisks Fraser away to the magical realm of Terranaught, he’s thrust into a world he never knew existed and a destiny he never asked for: defeat the powerful wizard Lord Borath. The problem? No one, least of all Fraser, believes he can do it, except Nightwind.

To have any chance at all, Fraser must push past his fear and self-doubt to master the ways of both Guardian and Druid in only a few short months—not the years it usually takes to learn. But even if he manages that, how can a kid who’s never believed in himself and a dragon a hundred years past his prime stand against the greatest evil Terranaught has ever known?