2009

Past Appearances

• Thursday, January 22, 2009: A talk, reading, and signing for The Women’s Canadian Club of Toronto.
• Monday, February 9, 2009: A talk to a Toronto-area book club that is reading TBLP.
• Tuesday, February 10, 2009: Another talk to a different but just as wonderful book club that has chosen TBLP as its monthly selection.
• Monday, February 23, 2009: A talk at another local Toronto-area book club.
• Monday, March 9, 2009, 7:00 p.m. : A talk, reading, and Q&A at the Burlington Public Library ;
• Wednesday, March 25th, 2009, 6:30 p.m.: A talk, reading, and signing at the Toronto Public Library – Yorkville Branch .
• Friday, March 27, 2009: A talk to a private book club in Caledon, Ontario.
• Monday, March 30, 2009, 7:00 p.m.: A talk, reading, and signing at the Toronto Public Library – Beaches Branch
• Tuesday, March 31, 2009 : A talk, Q&A, and book signing at The Whiff of Grape, a dinner club in Toronto running continuously since the 1960s.
• Wednesday, April 1, 2009: The prestigious Grimsby Author Series held at the Casablanca Winery Inn . A reading alongside one of my literary
  heroes, Paul Quarrington who will be reading from his latest novel, The Ravine .
• Tuesday, April 7, 2009: A talk and signing at the Canadian Public Relations Society – Hamilton Chapter, Awards Gala Dinner, Stoney Creek.
• Saturday, April 18, 2009, 2:00 p.m.: A talk, reading and panel discussion at the Port Hope Public Library with some local self-published authors.
• Thursday, April 30, 2009: A talk at a private book club in Orillia, Ontario, home to the Stephen Leacock Museum.
• May 2-4, 2009: A talk/lecture at a writers workshop near Lake Moira.
• Thursday, May 7, 2009, 7:00 p.m.: A talk, reading, and signing at the Toronto Public Library – Brentwood Branch .
• Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 7:00 p.m.: A talk, reading, and signing at the North York Central Library as part of the eh List Author Series .
• Friday, June 5, 2009, 7:30 p.m.: A talk, reading, and signing at the annual Author’s Night of the Canadian Federation of University Women -Muskoka, in Bracebridge, Ontario.
• Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 7:00 p.m.: A talk, reading, and signing at the new McNally Robinson bookstore in Don Mills, (Don Mills Road and Lawrence in Toronto).
• Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 10:45 a.m.: A talk in the Ontario Legislature to parliamentarians from across Canada at a meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
• Thursday, July 23, 2009, 12:00 noon: A talk, reading, and signing at a book club in Burlington, Ontario.
• Thursday, September 24, 2009, 2:00 p.m.: A talk, reading and signing at the Northern District branch of the Toronto Public Library .
• Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 2:00 p.m.: A talk and reading at the Fort Erie Public Library .
• Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 7:30 p.m.: A talk and reading at the Pelham Public Library .
• Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 10:00 a.m.: A talk, reading, and signing at the Probus Club of Swan Lake in Markham, Ontario.
• Sunday, October 18, 2009, 2:00-4:00 p.m.: A talk, reading, and signing at the Blue Mountains Public Library in Thornbury .
• Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 6:30 p.m.: A talk at a book club in Toronto.
• Thursday, October 22, 2009, 2:00 p.m.: A talk, reading and signing at the Toronto Public Library – Deer Park Branch .
• Monday, October 26, 2009, 7:00 p.m.: A talk at the Book Ends bookclub in Toronto.
• Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 7:00 p.m.: A talk at the Words Worth Books bookstore book club in Waterloo.
• Saturday, November 14, 2009, 8:30 a.m.: A talk about new technologies for marketing books at a breakfast meeting of the Writers’ Circle of Durham in Whitby.
• Friday, November 20, 2009, 8:30 p.m.: A conference call discussion with a bookclub in Georgetown, just outside of Toronto.
• Friday, December 4, 2009, 7:00 p.m.: A talk, reading and discussion at a private bookclub in Toronto.
• Monday, December 7, 2009, 7:30 p.m.: A talk/reading/signing at St. Paul’s United Church for the Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale Federal Liberal Association .
• Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 6:30 p.m.: A reading at The Literati Lounge benefit for Frontier College ReRead Bookstore, 548 Danforth Ave.), Toronto.
• Sunday, June 6, 2010, 1:00 p.m.: A reading and signing at the Elora Writers’ Festval, Elora, Ontario.

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