Month: October 2008

Nick at Oberon gave me a heads up last night that Purolator would be bringing my book today. I spent an anxious morning thinking things such as, do they have my new address? What if I miss them? What if it gets lost?But it’s here. It’s so…I don’t know what. Cool. Weird. Unreal. More later.

According to the Canadian Bookseller’s Association, Saturday, November 15th, 2008 is “Independents Day” — a celebration of independent bookstores, kicking off a year-long campaign called “Independents Matter”. Owl’s Nest Books has invited me to participate in their celebration, which will feature local authors in the store all day. It sounds like a nice, low-key kind…

I am totally blown away by Marina Endicott’s Good to a Fault. It’s one of those rare books you don’t want to put down, one that I find myself reading till way past bedtime. Compelling, believable and written in spare, elegant prose. Wow. Many times I’m not that impressed by big award nominations. I’ve read…

I was stunned to read of the death of Frankie Venom, lead singer of Teenage Head, at age 51 from throat cancer. I still have hearing damage from seeing them at the Stampeder Inn here in the town of cows in the early ’80s. They were probably the highest energy act I ever saw (well,…

Had coffee yesterday with a writer I met at the CAA conference in the summer. One of the many things we talked about was blogs. The thing about having a blog to do with your writing, we concluded, is that there generally aren’t that many exciting events going on, or ones that warrant blogging about,…