“If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.” – Robert Frost The Goodbye Girls - Putting the Fun in Funerals Winner of the 2023 AMFA for Humour Finalist in 2025 IAN Book of the Year Awards #family #dogs #cats #horses #writing #cdn thegoodbyegirls.cahttps://bsky.app/profile/julietdomvile.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/julietdomvile.bsky.social/post/3mvddstcw6c27@septimusbrown.com Hey! I am also at Indigo Mayfair today. See you there then.12 Sep 2026 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:eqnm56ig4xmidfki74f74pgt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvddstcw6c27https://bsky.app/profile/julietdomvile.bsky.social/post/3murra24fh22eA common comma would have lent clarity to this sentence. Were the dogs used in cattle?? ". . . high-value horses bought for racing and rodeos and dogs used in illegal fighting rings and cattle." Source: Horse smuggling exposes cracks in US defenses against screwworm https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-farm-screwworm-horses/05 Sep 2026 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:eqnm56ig4xmidfki74f74pgt/app.bsky.feed.post/3murra24fh22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/julietdomvile.bsky.social/post/3muglxvoznc2sTake away the murdered biker. Take away the funeral planning. What's left? A granddaughter trying to understand her grandmother. Old friends finding their way back to each other. People carrying things from their past that they haven't quite figured out how to put down.01 Sep 2026 04:37 +0000at://did:plc:eqnm56ig4xmidfki74f74pgt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muglxvoznc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/julietdomvile.bsky.social/post/3muglwrtjw22sBook One asked: Can you go home again? Book Two asks a slightly more dangerous question: What happens when going home isn't the hard part anymore? The Goodbye Girls: Ambitious Adulting digs deeper into family, betrayal and forgiveness.01 Sep 2026 04:37 +0000at://did:plc:eqnm56ig4xmidfki74f74pgt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muglwrtjw22shttps://bsky.app/profile/julietdomvile.bsky.social/post/3muglvxwdqc2sBefore The Goodbye Girls was a book, it was a business idea. After sitting through one too many awkward, disorganized celebrations of life, I thought: why aren't there funeral planners the way there are wedding planners? A friend and I even had the perfect name. The Goodbye Girls.01 Sep 2026 04:36 +0000at://did:plc:eqnm56ig4xmidfki74f74pgt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muglvxwdqc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/julietdomvile.bsky.social/post/3muglvarmmc2sThere are rules to writing. Mine include: Coffee in the morning. Tea in the afternoon. Wine if we're still doing this in the evening. And Hawkins Cheezies after noon.01 Sep 2026 04:36 +0000at://did:plc:eqnm56ig4xmidfki74f74pgt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muglvarmmc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/julietdomvile.bsky.social/post/3mugluoarvs2s31 years ago, I signed up for a weekend course at Camosun College called Freelance Writing from the Boonies. Within the first hour, something clicked. Since then I've written about golfing, trucking, squid harvesting, mineral exploration, Indigenous relations, and eventually four non-fiction books.01 Sep 2026 04:36 +0000at://did:plc:eqnm56ig4xmidfki74f74pgt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mugluoarvs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/julietdomvile.bsky.social/post/3mugltvialc2sThere's a strange moment when you're writing a sequel and realize the characters aren't the same people you left at the end of Book One. A year has passed in their world. Things have happened. Relationships have shifted. And Aislin, believe it or not, has done some growing up. Emphasis on some.01 Sep 2026 04:35 +0000at://did:plc:eqnm56ig4xmidfki74f74pgt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mugltvialc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/julietdomvile.bsky.social/post/3mugltcyzn22sI think the best fictional characters are rarely the perfect ones. Give me the difficult grandmother. The friend who encourages questionable decisions. The person who says exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time. Those are the characters I want to spend time with.01 Sep 2026 04:35 +0000at://did:plc:eqnm56ig4xmidfki74f74pgt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mugltcyzn22shttps://bsky.app/profile/julietdomvile.bsky.social/post/3muglsnzu3s2sThe trouble with inventing people for a living is that eventually you have to remember everything you've invented about them. By Book Two, I realized my memory could no longer be trusted. So yes, I now have a cheat sheet for my imaginary friends. Very normal behaviour. 📚01 Sep 2026 04:35 +0000at://did:plc:eqnm56ig4xmidfki74f74pgt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muglsnzu3s2s