An Anthology of Monsters

An Anthology of Monsters by Cherie Dimaline, award-winning author of The Marrow Thieves, is the tale of an intricate dance with life-long anxiety. It is about how the stories we tell ourselves can help reshape the ways in which we think, cope, and ultimately survive. Using examples from her books, from her mère, and from her own late night worry sessions, Dimaline choreographs a deeply personal narrative about all the ways in which we tell stories. She reveals how to collect and curate our stories, how they elicit difficult and beautiful conversations, and how family and community is a place of refuge and strength. A deeply personal narrative about all the ways in which we cower and crush through stories. Sales Tips:
• Cherie Dimaline is the award-winning Métis author of The Marrow Thieves.
• Like many others, Dimaline struggles with life-long anxiety.
• The stories we tell ourselves can reshape the ways in which we think, cope, and survive.
• Dimaline reveals how to collect and curate these stories, how they elicit difficult and beautiful conversations, and how family and community is a place of refuge and strength.
• This is a deeply personal narrative, using examples from books and her life.

Audience:
• Dimaline's many readers will want to read this book.
• People who suffer from anxiety will want to read it.
• People who want to learn more about Indigenous ways of thinking will want to read it.
• Instructors who teach about Dimaline's writing will want to assign it to their students. Introduction

Horror Stories
In the Beginning
Looking for Solace
Night Terrors
Manifesting Good and the Good Days as Bad Omens

Healing Stories
Mapping and Kinship
Medicine
Laughter and Survival
Warnings
Rougarou

How to Stand Up
Lee Maracle and the Way to Stand
The Double-Edged Sword of Being a Writer
Living Through Writing
Creating Optimism

Keeping an Anthology (Of Both, But in Order]
How to Avoid the Edit Reel
How to Curate the Anthology
The Celebration of You
RuPaul's Present
How We Begin My own personal anxiety has been the mean, twisted, maniacal life partner I drag from apartment to house, and over the midnight mark into every new year, despite promises to finally kick it to the curb. It sticks and it sings and more than anything, it tells stories... And so, anxiety and I, with our storytelling genes, we exist in a kind of friendly/dysfunctional competition that's been set up between us-who can tell the most powerful stories and which one will determine how I feel that day. #7 on Edmonton Non-fiction Bestsellers list, March 26, 2023 #6 on Edmonton Non-fiction Bestsellers list, April 30, 2023