Glimpse into the illustration process of Meneka Repka’s stunning work on THE MANGO MONSTER!

Check out this fun chat with the legendary DBoss on Real Life Matters! (2024)


French Language launch of Coconut Dreams (La neige des cocotiers) with translator Paul Ruban, and Mishka Lavigne from Les Éditions L'Interligne


Thank you to The FOLD and the marvelous @amanda.leduc for this lovely chat as part of their series, HOW THEY DID IT: PUBLISHING STORIES



Reading the story So Far Away at the Coconut Dreams Book Launch - April 18th, 2019 at Another Story Bookshop


Book*hug Spring Launch Reading - May 1st, 2019

https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/coconut-dreams-by-derek-mascarenhas/ Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950s, the collection weaves through various timelines and perspectives to focus on two children, Aiden and Ally Pinto.

Reading at PIVOT - March 28, 2019