2010

Past Appearances

• Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 6:00 p.m.: A talk, reading and signing at the Long Branch Public Library in Etobicoke.
• Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 7:00 p.m.: A talk at the Waterloo Public Library (McCormick Branch) Book Club in Waterloo.
• Sunday, April 11, 2010, 11:00 a.m.: A talk, reading, and signing with Blue Heron Books at Wyndance Golf Club, Uxbridge, Ontario.
• Saturday, May 1, 2010: A workshop on self-promotion at the Ontario Writers’ Conference .
• Thursday, May 6, 2010, 10:30 a.m.: A talk, reading, and signing at a Probus Club near Collingwood, Ontario.
• Monday, May 31, 2010, 7:00 p.m.: A talk, reading and discussion at a private book club in Toronto.
• Sunday, June 6, 2010, 1:00 p.m.: A reading and signing at the Elora Writers’ Festval, Elora, Ontario.
• Saturday, June 12, 2010, 7:00 p.m.: Master of Ceremonies for the gala dinner where the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour is presented.
• Saturday, June 19, 2010, all day: A talk, reading, debate, and much more at the daylong celebration of TBLP organized by The New Quarterly literary journal as part of the Waterloo Rergion’s One Book, One
  Community program.
• Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 2:45-3:45 p.m.: Moderate a panel discussion on promoting your writing as part of the summer school session at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies Creative
  Writing program .
• Friday, July 23, 2010, 7:00 p.m.: A reading with other humour writers at the Leacock Summer Festival in Orillia, Ontario.
• Sunday, August 8, 2010, afternoon: A talk, reading, and signing at the Slocan Community Library, Slocan, British Columbia.
• Friday, August 27th, 2010, 7:00 p.m.: A reading along with Miriam Toews at the Sleeping Giant Writers Festival in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
• Saturday, August 28th, 2010, 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.: A workshop on “Shameless Self-Promotion” at the Sleeping Giant Writers Festival in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
• Monday, August 30th, 2010, 8:00 p.m.: A speaker phone talk and Q&A with a book club in Kitchener-Waterloo.
• Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 5:30 p.m.: The official launch of The High Road at the Dora Keogh pub. 141 Danforth Avenue, Toronto. All are welcome.
• Wenesday, September 15, 2010, 7:00 p.m.: A talk an reading at the BookLounge Insights & Insiders Fall Preview Event at Ben McNally Books in Toronto.
• Thursday, September 16, 2010: A day of talks and media interviews in Ottawa for the launch of The High Road .
• Monday, September 20, 2010, 7:00 p.m.: A talk and Q&A at a mass gathering of Book Clubs in the Waterloo Region to kick off the OBOC festivities.
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 7:00 p.m.: A reading at the Kitchener Public Library as part of the Waterloo Rergion’s One Book, One Community program.
• Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 1:30 p.m.: A reading at Elmira District Secondary School as part of the Waterloo Region’s One Book, One Community program.
• Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 7:00 p.m.: A reading at First United Church as part of the Waterloo Region’s One Book, One Community program.
• Wednesday, September 22, 2010: A reading at First United Church in Waterloo as part of the Waterloo Region’s One Book, One Community program.
• Thursday, September 23, 2010, 7:00 p.m.: A reading at the University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture in Cambridge as part of the Waterloo Rergion’s One Book, One Community program.
• Sunday, September 26, 2010, 2:30 p.m.: A reading and signing at Word on the Street-Kitchener .
• Sunday, September 26, 2010, 5:00 p.m.: A reading and signing at Word on the Street-Toronto.
• Monday, September 27, 2010, 6:30 p.m.: Self-Publishing 101 panel discussion at the Country Hills Community Library in Kitchener, Ontario.
• Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 4:30 p.m.: A talk, reading, and signing at the Lyons New Media Centre, Mills Library, McMaster
  University, Hamilton, Ontario.
• Friday, October 1, 2010, 6:30 p.m.: A talk/reading/signing at the Headwaters Arts Festival ‘s Authors Night in Caledon.
• Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 7:00 p.m.: A talk/reading/signing at the Dwight Public Library, Lake of Bays, Ontario.
• Monday, October 18, 2010, 12:00 p.m.: A luncheon talk and reading to 140 librarians at an Ontario Library Association workshop at the Toronto
  Reference Library .
• Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 9:00 p.m.: A talk via-Skype to a book club in Cambridge.
• Friday, October 22, 2010, 1:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.: Two panel discussions, readings and signings at the Vancouver International Writers Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Thursday, November 4, 2010, 7:00 p.m.: A talk, reading, and signing at the Chapters Rideau Book Club, in the Chapters store just off Parliament
  Hill in Ottawa, Ontario.
• Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 1:00 p.m.: A talk, reading, and signing for the Seniors Club at the Church of the Incarnation in Toronto.
• Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 7:00 p.m. A talk and reading at the TEMC Book Club, in Toronto.
• Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 7:00 p.m.: A brief talk and reading at the official Ottawa book launch for The High Road, Parliament Pub, Ottawa, Ontario.
• Friday, November 26, 2010, 2:30 p.m.: A talk to the Knowledge Integration students at the University of Waterloo about my unorthodox journey to the published land, Waterloo, Ontario.
• Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 12:00 p.m.: A luncheon address to the Ontario Trillium Foundation .

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