Catherine Vendryes

Catherine Vendryes

An expert storyteller who brings big and small brands to life.

Tag: interview

  • Lattes with Ladies: Ashlee DesRosiers

    For the 2023 return of Lattes with Ladies I spoke to Ashlee Desrosiers, the blogger behind Books Are 42 and one of the co-hosts of the TBR Tackle Challenge, a bookstagram community and reading challenge page which I’ve become a part of! Ashlee shares how she got into reading more indie authors during the last Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Huong Vo

    For this edition of Lattes with Ladies, I interview the multi-disciplinary Huong Vo about poetry in the pandemic and really choosing what stories you want to read and write. Huong Vo is poet (both spoken word and on the page), career coach, and yoga practitioner. Her recent poem for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Kim Fedyk

    In this edition of Lattes with Ladies, I interview Kim Fedyk, author and freelance writer, about self-publishing, motherhood, and her new novel Birthright. You can buy Birthright: The Crystal Throne on Amazon. You can also follow Kim on Instagram at @fedykkim and find updates about her forthcoming works on Medium and Goodreads. HPL: What have Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Maggie Chang

    This month’s Lattes with Ladies is featuring Maggie Chang! Maggie is a writer, poet, artist, Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalist, and WWF Canada Living Planet Leader. She’s smart, she’s thoughtful, and she loves a good fantasy novel. It was incredibly fun to talk to her about YA novels, getting into a series before everybody else, Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Jessie Ho

    Our first returning Lattes with Ladies guest: Jessie Ho! I first interviewed Jessie in 2017 while she was living in Hong Kong. We regrouped in March of this year—literally days before quarantine began—and it was fun to revisit what was going through our minds back then. You can follow her on Instagram at @iejessie or Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Jessica Needham

    In this edition of Lattes with Ladies we are celebrating Pride with the effervescent Jessica Needham! Jess shares her thoughts on queer books versus queering books and her fascinating research into queer media studies. HPL: First and foremost, what are you reading right now? JN: Ooh, what am I reading right now? At the moment, Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Elizabeth Scott

    This is a long and lovely interview I did with the hilarious and indomitable Elizabeth Scott back in January when meeting up in a cafe was no big deal at all. All of the references to what she had been reading and how many books she read thus far were from when the year had Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Justine Abigail Yu

    The triumphant return of Lattes with Ladies begins with the founder of Living Hyphen and magnificent marketing maven, Justine Abigail Yu! I learned about Living Hyphen shortly after they launched and was blown away with the creativity of emerging hyphenate-Canadian writers. Issue 2: Across Generations is in the works and you could be one of Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Erin Taylor

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    After much ado, I finally have another Lattes with Ladies interview featuring my good friend, writer, and globetrotter Erin Taylor. You can follow Erin on her Instagram and wait with bated breath like the rest of us for her first book. HPL: First off, what are you reading right now? ET: I’m currently reading four Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Jasmine Gui

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    I finally got the chance to transcribe this exciting interview with Jasmine Gui, translator, editor, and co-founder of the Project 40 Collective. She is a really, really cool lady whose passion for diversity and accessibility in literature have helped to create LooseLeaf Magazine and Col.lab Incubator. I became familiar with her stuff through Instagram and when I realized Read.