Originally published, May 17, 2009
Thanks so much to everyone who attended! A big crowd, a lovely summery view over English Bay, fine food, a lot of ambient noise from the bar, and very brisk book sales. People’s Co-op Books sold every copy brought to the event. The English Stories was well and truly launched.
Originally published, Monday, May 11, 2009
Most dates for my Ontario tour with The English Stories are now set.
Ottawa — June 6th, The Manx Pub Reading Series, 370 Elgin Street
Waterloo — June 8th, 7:30 pm, with Terry Griggs, author of Thought You Were Dead, at Wordsworth Books, 100 King Street, South Waterloo
Guelph — June 9th, [...]
Originally published, Friday, April 24, 2009
Yesterday copies of The English Stories arrived chez moi. Such a striking cover! The interior design looks so clean/clear. Altogether I’m really pleased. There are also some zippy bookmarks that I’ll be glad to hand out.
My father used to claim that an author, on opening a newly published book, is [...]
Originally published, Saturday, March 28, 2009
Biblioasis has a blog called Thirsty, at www.biblioasis.blogspot.com I’ll be writing for it occasionally this spring.
My first post appeared on 27 March, about how The English Stories began. When writing the first, I didn’t realize there’d be a suite of them.
Soon I’ll do a post on memory. I was [...]