So, it’s been two years–and a bit–since my last post. I’ve been teaching myself how to makeover my website, and this is a test to see if I’ve handled the blog page correctly. We’ll see what happens when the urls are changed. I’m paying someone to do that bit.

So, a few bookish things have happened. The day after The Fishers of Paradise won Arts Hamilton’s inaugural Kerry Schooley Award in 2013 for the book best representative of the city of Hamilton, Wolsak & Wynn publisher, Noelle Allen, offered to bring the book out as a reprint edition. The new version, complete with snazzy new cover and a copyedit, is due back from the printer today and should be available for purchase next week. Yay!

I’m reading at gritLIT, Hamilton’s Writers & Readers Festival, which runs April 7-10 this year and has a stellar line-up. I haven’t taken part in (read: been invited to) a festival or formal reading in 10 years, so I’m pretty stoked. My last reading of this kind was at, wait for it, gritLIT 2006! This time I will be participating in 3 events–a reading, a panel discussion and a workshop.

I couldn’t possibly pass up the opportunity to mention the other big exciting news: The Fishers of Paradise has been chosen as Bookmark #16 for Miranda Hill’s Project Bookmark Canada. The plaque will be unveiled in Hamilton along the Desjardins Trail below the second rail bridge at the entrance to Cootes Paradise on June 10, 2016. I’ll be the one choked up.