Featured Books
“Shelterbelts is a wonderful novel, full of vivid writing and fierce characters with a passion for finding their place in the world despite the cruelties of war and the realities of living on the land. Like Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg Ohio, this book explores the secret yearnings of the heart that promise to connect us if we take the time to discover them in each other. Readers are going to fall in love with Simar’s Tolga Township!”
Jonis Agee, Award-winning Author of The River Wife
Candace Simar is a writer and poet from Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, in the heart of Lake Country. As a life-long Minnesotan, the grandchild of immigrants, Candace nurtures a passion for Minnesota History.
Publishing her Minnesota-based historical novels, ABERCROMBIE TRAIL 2009, POMME DE TERRE 2010; BIRDIE 2011; and BLOOMING PRAIRIE 2012, has been a dream come true.
Featured Books
History Through Fiction Anthology
History Through Fiction Releases New Anthology 3/1/25 and my story, Those Bereaved, is included. Yay!
Lungers, Lawdogs, and Legends
I’m thrilled to announce that my short story, Julesburg Burning, is included in the anthology LUNGERS, LAWDOGS, AND LEGENDS released this week by Saddlebag Dispatches. If you’re looking for westerns
Events
Events Upcoming Appearances 11/23/24 St. Alice Christmas Bazaar 9 to 3pm Pequot Lakes, MN 11/21/24 Book Club Lori Swenson 12/12/24 Book Club Krista Soukup 12/20/24 Senior lunch and Learn Brainerd
Another Wonderful Week of Camp Candace
I just returned from the Spirituality Center at the College of Saint Benedict in Saint Joseph, MN. About a dozen writing friends and I rent the entire center, hire our
History Through Fiction Anthology
History Through Fiction Releases New Anthology 3/1/25 and my story, Those Bereaved, is included. Yay!
Lungers, Lawdogs, and Legends
I’m thrilled to announce that my short story, Julesburg Burning, is included in the anthology LUNGERS, LAWDOGS, AND LEGENDS released this week by Saddlebag Dispatches.
Events
Events Upcoming Appearances 11/23/24 St. Alice Christmas Bazaar 9 to 3pm Pequot Lakes, MN 11/21/24 Book Club Lori Swenson 12/12/24 Book Club Krista Soukup 12/20/24
Another Wonderful Week of Camp Candace
I just returned from the Spirituality Center at the College of Saint Benedict in Saint Joseph, MN. About a dozen writing friends and I rent
History Through Fiction Anthology
History Through Fiction Releases New Anthology 3/1/25 and my story, Those Bereaved, is included. Yay!
Lungers, Lawdogs, and Legends
I’m thrilled to announce that my short story, Julesburg Burning, is included in the anthology LUNGERS, LAWDOGS, AND LEGENDS released this week by Saddlebag Dispatches.
Events
Events Upcoming Appearances 11/23/24 St. Alice Christmas Bazaar 9 to 3pm Pequot Lakes, MN 11/21/24 Book Club Lori Swenson 12/12/24 Book Club Krista Soukup 12/20/24
Another Wonderful Week of Camp Candace
I just returned from the Spirituality Center at the College of Saint Benedict in Saint Joseph, MN. About a dozen writing friends and I rent
Includes five fan-favorite books: Sister Lumberjack, Abercrombie Trail, Pomme De Terre, Birdie, and Blooming Prairie.
Each book is hand signed by multi-award-winning author, Candace Simar!
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Krista Soukup Accepting
2018 Laura Literary Award
on Behalf of Candace Simar
