Books & Brunch with Blue Heron Books I’m looking forward to this event, although it’s not until April. Blue Heron Books, another wonderful independent bookstore, is located […] January 6, 2010
My article runs in Writers’ Union of Canada mag Early in the fall, I was asked to write a piece for the fall/winter edition of WRITE, the official magazine […] January 5, 2010
TBLP on “Biased Best Books” of the decade list Wow, what an honour! In an article in today’s Orillia Packet & Times, TBLP was noted as the “funniest Leacock […] January 5, 2010
Writing Update: Final manuscript submitted My editor, Doug Gibson, dropped by yesterday morning with the final version of the manuscript for The High Road. He’d […] January 3, 2010
It’s amazing what you can find on the Internet… A friend just pointed me to this image on the Internet. I’d never seen it before. Believe it or not, […] January 1, 2010
Stellar entry list for 2010 Leacock Medal Now that entries have closed for the 2010 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, I decided to check out the […] January 1, 2010
It’s a sad day for Toronto book lovers… It was a shock to learn yesterday that the wonderful McNally Robinson bookstore, open less than a year ago, has […] December 30, 2009
TBLP makes the “Canada Also Reads” longlist This morning, the National Post‘s Canada Also Reads longlist was released. There was some criticism of the annual CBC Canada […] December 29, 2009
Three years later… For the last two years, on Christmas Day, I’ve posted about what has happened in my humble life since I […] December 25, 2009
PeopleTalkRadio interview posted Earlier in December, I did an interview with Nigel Killick, who produces PeopleTalk, a great podcast, out of England. He […] December 24, 2009