Canadian novelist Marissa Stapley coming to Calgary Wordfest

'The Lightning Bottles' writer coming to Calgary Canadian novelist Marissa Stapley is coming to Calgary for Wordfest, following the release of her new book The Lightning Bottles.

The Lightning Bottles fulfills a dream for Canadian novelist Marissa Stapley.

“I always wanted to write a book set in the music scene. I was big into the 90s music scene. I was a roadie for my brother’s band,” Stapley said during an interview with CTV News.

Some reviewers have compared the book to Daisy Jones and The Six by American best-selling novelist Taylor Jenkins Reid, a colleague of Stapley’s.

“And she was like, 'Do it, write your own,'” Stapley says of Jenkins-Reid, although The Lightning Bottles touches on a more recent music era – the 1990s grunge and alternative scene.

Daisy Jones and The Six was adapted for television, something Stapley says she is “very close” to doing with a previous novel, Lucky, the first Canadian book chosen as part of Reese Witherspoon’s book club.

“It changed absolutely everything, especially as a Canadian author,” says Stapley.

Stapley is scheduled to be in Calgary on Oct. 19 for two appearances during Wordfest.