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ANN CAVLOVIC CREATIVE WRITING Count On Me exposes how a family can fracture when aging parents grow frail and debts from the past resurface.​ Filled with hope and humour amid the realities of elder abuse, this is a story about...

@anncavlovic.bsky.social 's novel Count On Me is important, and receiving excellent reviews! Few writers explore family fractures that occur when parents are frail. Fewer take on the devastating subject of elder abuse. Podcast coming soon. #elderabuse #books #reading
www.anncavlovic.com

“A Day in the Life” with: Writer Ann Cavlovic Ann Cavlovic is an Outaouais writer behind the acclaimed debut Count On Me.

On strict writing routines and some fun pics "A Day in the Life” with: Writer Ann Cavlovic share.google/LliL9oPvE8oE...
Thanks Montreal Guradian.

Omg I hope this is somehow ironic in its implementation

Chevron's CEO made $104 million while America bombed Iran America's oil executives have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, a new investigation shows. Emily Atkin Apr 08, 2026

" In the first three months of this year, oil CEOs sold $1.4 billion worth of their own stock—the fastest pace of selling in 15 years. At a dozen companies, the selling broke all-time records"

heated.world/p/chevrons-c...

This was amazing last year. Highly recommended!

Such a great read.

Vern is the best! This lab was so great.

Important read about oil wars and climate change in the guardian. (Just let's call it unregulated capitalism, under bought-out autocrats)

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

- Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action ‘maddening’, say analysts

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The don't-draft-and-craft approach to writing: An interview with Ann Cavlovic Ann Cavlovic’s debut novel, Count On Me, navigates the "transactional" nature of human intimacy. Drawing on her background as an environmental economist, she discusses the tension between love and…

New author interview! @anncavlovic.bsky.social on her debut novel, Count on Me. Ann explores her fascination with the tension between love and money, and her don’t draft and craft approach to creative writing.
www.oncreativewriting.com/post/dont-dr...

Half of the US hates the other. Hard to solve any big American problem until they solve that one.

Great to see 🇨🇦 on the right end of this list.

Headline from National Observer

It could be one of these people getting "stars" from an AI powered program teaching humans IRL to be trolls.

Triggers abound. Hang in there

Financial #elderabuse, seems to coincide with other forms of greed.

Delighted to see "Count on Me," by @anncavlovic.bsky.social is on your radar!!!!🤩🙏

Cover art for Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology edited by Ian Thomas Shaw and Tim Niedermann, featuring green wisteria leaves with gray wisteria leaves on top of them against a background of creased and crumpled paper.

Good morning! Today we have a new review, by @percypropa.bsky.social, of GREEN TO GREY: AN ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHOLOGY, edited by Ian Thomas Shaw and Tim Niedermann, from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social: reckoning.press/review-green...

Thoughtful review of "Count On Me" by @anncavlovic.bsky.social in the FAB Ottawa Review of Books. A BIG 🙏to Guernica author and reviewer Wayne Ng.❤️🤩

Count On Me by Ann Cavlovic Reviewed by Wayne NgAnn Cavlovic’s debut novel Count On Me is about caregiving, but more pointedly, it is about family power—who gets access, who controls the narrative, and who bears the emotional co...

"a clear-eyed account of how elder abuse can unfold quietly, under the guise of care, and how devastating it can be to witness it from the margins." Lovely review of Count On Me in the Ottawa Review of Books www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...

There's a curse from being a normally productive woman. But my surgery recovery forced me to face up to the fact that I actually do deserve rest, even if the planet is burning, and why the heck did I not believe that.

Link: app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/43...

Image of novel "Count On Me" and the text "Enter my giveaway on The StoryGraph for a chance to win a copy of my book!"

Win a free copy (ePub or paper). The StoryGraph is an ap like Goodreads but better and Amazon-free. #sandwishgeneration #elderabuseawareness #cyclebreaking

This is the life we cling to

Maybe social media (itself and reliance) throttles such organizing? And the oligarchs like that?

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

US to withdraw from dozens of UN, international organisations The sweeping changes will see the US quit major forums for cooperation on climate change, peace and democracy.

All part of Russia's plan since Trump's first trip to Russia in 1987..

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. She was also a prize-winning poet.

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Fiction Review: Isabelle Zhu Reads Ann Cavlovic’s Novel Count on Me On the topic of workplace harassment, one of my former colleagues once made the remark, “You should be able to advocate for yourself, since you’re mature.” For him, the capacity to believe that one…

"Cavlovic’s debut novel provides a thoughtful perspective on the possibilities for overburdened mothers to shape a better world, placing attention on the urgent question of 'how to raise children so that fascism could never again take hold.'"
heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/01/07/c... #cyclebreaking

A little late, but tensions between love and money seem to (unfortunately) stick around in our news. My fictional treatment of that in a family was discussed with Shawn as his "mystery guest" a few months ago!