Kim Moritsugu's Blog
July 12, 2014
Writing About Writing
In June, 2014, I was Writer-in-Residence over at Open Book Toronto. The residency called for me to write about writing-life subjects of my own choosing, including these little baubles:
Shall We Launch or Keep on Moping: 8 Truths About Book Launches
Kim’s Writing Tips, or How to Write Like a Pro
Social Media Bare Minimums for Authors
May 20, 2014
Events & Appearances
Sunday June 1, 2014 - Globe and Mail/Ben McNally Books & Brunch Toronto, 10 am.
Sunday July 20, 2014 – Plasticine Poetry (and fiction!) Series, Pauper’s Pub, Toronto, 6:30 pm
Friday July 25, 2014 – Paul Quarrington Humour Showcase, Leacock Summer Festival, Lakehead University Commons, Orillia, Ontario 8pm
September 12 – 14 – Eden Mills Writers Festival, Eden Mills, Ontario
Sunday September 21, 2104 – Toronto Word on the Street Festival, Queen’s Park, Toronto
Friday September 26, 2014 – Kingston Writersfest, Kingston, Ontario
Saturday September 27, 2014 – Heritage Toronto Hidden Treasures in North Rosedale Walking Tour, 1 pm, Toronto
October 17-19, 2014 – Whistler Readers and Writers Festival, Whistler, B.C.
Saturday November 15-16, 2014 – Toronto International Book Fair, Metro Convention Centre, Toronto
Upcoming Events
Sunday June 1, 2014 - Globe and Mail/Ben McNally Books & Brunch Toronto, 10 am.
Sunday July 20, 2014 – Plasticine Poetry (and fiction!) Series, Pauper’s Pub, Toronto, 6:30 pm
Friday July 25, 2014 – Paul Quarrington Humour Showcase, Leacock Summer Festival, Leacock Museum, Orillia, Ontario 8 pm
Sunday September 21, 2104 – Toronto Word on the Street Festival, Queen’s Park, Toronto
Friday September 26, 2014 – Kingston Writersfest, Kingston, Ontario
Saturday September 27, 2014 – Heritage Toronto Hidden Treasures in North Rosedale Walking Tour, 1 pm, Toronto
Saturday November 15-16, 2014 – Toronto International Book Fair, Metro Convention Centre, Toronto
December 17, 2013
The Oakdale Dinner Club
My new novel, The Oakdale Dinner Club, will be published in May, 2014 by Dundurn. It’s a suburban comedy of manners about food, infidelity and friendship. Here’s the book description:
After affluent suburban mom Mary Ann’s husband cheats on her, she decides to have her own extramarital affair. She starts up a neighbourhood dinner club as a cover, earmarks three men as potential lovers, and invites them to join. Along for the ride is her best friend Alice, a university lecturer who has recently returned with her young daughter to Oakdale, the leafy bedroom community where the two women grew up and briefly shared a telepathic past.
Over good food and wine, new friendships develop, new dreams simmer, Mary Ann pursues her affair candidates, and Alice opens her heart and mind to ways out of her single working mother social rut. The stars align on the night the core dinner club members consume an aphrodisiac, go to a local dive bar, hit the dance floor, and rock their worlds.
More info to come! Now available for pre-order (!) at amazon.ca.
September 20, 2013
Wording in the Street
Come one, come all to the Humber School for Writers Wordshop Marquee Tent at Toronto’s Word on the Street festival on Sunday September 22nd, and hear free informative lectures on a variety of topics of interest to aspiring and experienced writers. I will be hosting a discussion about humour writing at 1 pm, and another about self-promotion at 5 pm, and at 3 pm I will be doing flash assessments of first pages submitted by festival visitors, along with publisher Jack David (ECW Press) and editor Janice Zawerbny (House of Anansi). See you there!
June 6, 2013
Talking about Beginnings – in Barrie!
On Sunday June 16, I will be in Barrie giving a mini-workshop on Beginnings (at 10 am) and doing flash assessments of first pages of manuscripts submitted by participants (over brunch! which begins at 11:30) during the June meeting of the Writers’ Community of Simcoe County, held at the Lions Gate Banquet Hall at 386 Blake St.in Barrie.
For more info click here and to register for the workshop and the brunch/talk, click here.
October 20, 2012
How We Write Event @IFOA
On Sunday October 28, 2012 at 11 am, I’ll be hosting a roundtable event on behalf of the Humber School for Writers at the International Festival of Authors, at Harbourfront Centre, in Toronto.
The event is called “How We Write” and features authors Richard Scrimger, Eva Stachniak and me talking about the craft of writing fiction. Come on down, and find out (in just over an hour!) how we approach story and novel writing from start to finish.
September 20, 2012
Word. On the Street. This Sunday.
This Sunday, September 23, 2012, I’ll be repping the Humber School for Writers at the Scribendi.com Wordshop Marquee at Toronto’s Word on the Street festival. At 2 p.m. ECW’s Jack David and I will be doing on-the-spot flash assessments of manuscript first pages in a session called “How Am I Doing So Far.” At 3 p.m., I’ll be hosting Cynthia Good’s talk, “The Insider’s Guide: How to Get Published in Perilous Times” and at 4 p.m. I’ll host Greg Ioannou (Iguana Books) and Luba Lesychyn (author of Theft by Chocolate, in the “Straight to E-Book” session.
Rain or shine, see you there! The Wordshop Marquee will be located on Queen’s Park Crescent East between Wellesley and St. Joseph. The full lineup of the marquee’s events can be seen here.
July 10, 2012
Lakefield Literary Festival
On Friday July 20, 2012, I’ll be hosting an event called “Shifting Tides of History” at the Lakefield Literary Festival in lovely Lakefield, Ontario.
Acclaimed Canadian authors Frances Itani (Requiem) and Steven Heighton (The Dead Are More Visible will read from their works and I’ll lead a discussion with them about common themes in their writing and other exciting subjects yet to be revealed.
