EP 411 - Small Acts of Kindness in Every Little Thing With Janice Landry

Mark has a conversation with award winning writer and veteran journalist Janice Landryabout her seventh book, Every Little Thing: How Small Acts of Kindness Make a Big Impact, her 2023 diagnosis of Lyme disease which was part of the inspiration for this book, Janice's life as a writer, how having lived adjacent to the ocean in Canada's East Coast has impacted her creative spirit, and so much more.

Prior to the interview Mark shares a personal update, comments from recent episodes and reads a word about two Canadian conferences taking place at the end of April 2026: Toronto Indie Author Conference and GritLIT. (You can use code gritLITfriends at checkout to save 25% off the cost of registration).

Mark and Janice talk about:

• Being of the generation that spent their entire summer days outside and not-connected to anything except friends and the world around them
• The old school-style desk Janice had when she was young and starting to write which was shoved up against a window that looked out on the ocean
• Telling herself fictional stories to amuse herself when she was young
• The ocean being one of the single biggest factors on Janice's creative life
• The importance of Janice's 2022 book EYE OF THE OCEAN
• Why it's priceless that we create and share Canadian stories
• How so much of what we do is about all of the people who help us in our achievements and why it's one of the core messages in Janice's latest book
• The dramatically debilitating side-effects of Lyme disease
• Why small acts of kindness and sharing uplifting and positive stories is so important
• The tiny thing (a tick) that ended up inspiring Janice to write the book EVERY LITTLE THING
• Importance messages of hope and that you're not alone, which come from the book
• A very special note that a teacher gave to Janice when she was 10 years old, and why she carried it around for fifty years
• Advice Janice would offer to beginning writers
• And more . . .

After the interview Mark reflects on three different things that came up in the discussion.

 

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