Sunday July 12, join Ainslie Manson at The Gallery @ Artisan Square from 11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. for Writing and Illustrating for Children — Where Do You Start? The panelists are Ainslie Manson, Kirsti Wakelin, Cynthia Nicholson, Norma Charles  (author of Chasing a Star and The Girl in the Backseat) and Ellen Schwartz. For more information visit: http://www.biac.ca/writersfestival/events.php

BC Book Prize winners Katarina Jovanovic, Daphne Marlatt (author of best-selling Steveston) and Gabor Maté will be reading at Book Warehouse in Yaletown on Wednesday, June 17 at 7pm. It’s free! http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/events/archive/winners-reading-event-in-vancouver/

Congratulations to Philip Roy for winning a Silver Award for Submarine Outlaw, in the ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award, 2008.

Congratulations Douglas Todd for winning a Silver Award for Cascadia, in the ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards, 2008.

Philip Roy, author of Submarine Outlaw, goes an extra mile and constructs a model submarine

The submarine propeller

The submarine under construction

The submarine view from the rear end

Lois Donovan in Nova Scotia showcasing her book Winds of L’Acadie

Lois visiting Kingston in Nova Scotia

Lois visiting weymouth school in weymouth, novascotia

The Hackmatack nominees

June 13, 2009: Jean Rae Baxter (The Way Lies North), reading at the Allison House, Adolphustown Park, ON, 12:40 – 1:30

Saturday, June 13: Jean Rae Baxter (The Way Lies North). Illustrated talk, “The Facts behind the Fiction,” at the historic old Adolphustown Town Hall, ON. This will be part of the 225th Anniversay of the landing of the Loyalists.

Jean Rae Baxter (The Way Lies North). School visit: C. H. Norton Public School, 2120 Cleaver Avenue, Burlington, ON. Time TBA.