If you’re in Toronto, please come to my IFOA reading on Saturday 30 October at 4:00 in the Lakeside Terrace at the Harbourfront Centre.  I’ll also be reading in the IFOA Ontario program: in Orillia at the Stephen Leacock Museum, Tuesday 2 November at 7:30 pm, and in Barrie at the Gryphon Theatre on Wednesday 3 November at 7:30 pm.

Read Marsha Lederman’s October 19 profile of me in The Globe and Mail.

I’ll be reading from The Sky Is Falling at two VIWF events: the Grand Opening on Tuesday October 19th at 8:30 pm, and Home Grown on Thursday October 21st at 8 pm.  Both events take place at Performance Works on Granville Island.

I’ll be sharing the stage at the beautiful Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre in Whistler with Kathy Page, Merilyn Simonds, Wayne Grady, Russell Wangersky, Kate Pullinger, Jenn Farrell, Terence Young and Patricia Young.   Click here for more information.

I’ll be reading from The Sky Is Falling on Tuesday 5 October at 7:00 pm in the Alice MacKay room at the Central Branch downtown.  The event is free.

Book Club Buddy is a new website that links readers and book clubs with authors.  You can register to win free books, book a Skype chat, or get the latest publishing news.  Three of my titles — The Sky Is Falling, Pleased to Meet You, Sitting Practice –are featured on the site.  Visit Book Club Buddy.

A podcast of the interview I did with CBC’s Sheryl MacKay is now available.

Click to download it.

I’ll be guest on a panel at the 2010 Book Camp Unconference with  Naomi Wittes Reichstein.  The session, which runs from 1:00 to 1:45 at SFU Harbour Centre Campus, is called “Writers: Working With Publishers and Agents.” More information can be found at http://bookcampvan.pbworks.com/

I’ll be doing two readings at this year’s Word on the Street.  At 1:40 in the Canada Reads Tent I’ll be presenting The Sky Is Falling.  At 2:40 in the Kids’ Tent I’ll be on stage with Billie Livingston talking about our teen novella “flip book”  Film Studies and The Trouble with Marlene.  The event takes place at Library Square in downtown Vancouver.

Sunday 26 September, 2010, sometime between 6 and 9 am, the interview I did with Sheryl MacKay about The Sky Is Falling will air on North by Northwest, 690 AM/88.1 FM Vancouver.  Sheryl is a wonderful interviewer.  I felt like I was having an ordinary conversation with her, despite the fact that we weren’t even sitting in the same room.