Terry Fallis - Best Laid Plans

I spent last evening at McMaster University, my alma mater, in the original President’s residence, a lovely old home on the edge of the campus.  I and about 20 Mac alumni book club members gathered in the stately living room, complete with grand piano, to discuss TBLP.  I had a wonderful time.  Everyone was so nice and encouraging about the novel.  As a newly published writer, hearing that readers love the book, the characters, and the story, never gets old.  That they also thought the book was funny was icing on the cake.   Many thanks to Amber who organized this very enjoyable event.  It was just great.

Shortly, this e-mail invitation will be sent to hundreds of Toronto-area McMaster Alumni in the hopes of persuading some of them to come down to the beautiful Distillery District in downtown Toronto for an evening meet and greet, talk, and reading.  I’m really looking forward to it.  As I’ve mentioned before, McMaster had a hand in shaping my path in life so I’m very pleased to do this event.

McMaster will always be a special place for me.  I spent six years there earning a mechanical engineering degree and immersing myself in student politics.  My McMaster experience led directly to my pursuit of politics after graduation and stints on Parliament Hill and Queen’s Park.  Jumping ahead, the first official book event I did was a launch and signing at the Mac bookstore Titles last October, thanks to the support and efforts of Mark Leslie Lefebvre a writer and blogger who works there.  So it’s fitting in a way that on October 29th, just over a year later, and what a year it’s been, I’ll be back at Mac presenting TBLP to the Mac Reads Book Club.  Who says you can’t go home?