Drove into Tibet over the high Himalaya passes from Kathmandu. I was following the route of the Indian sage who brought Buddhism to Tibet sometime in the 9th c. They say he rode in on a Siberian tiger. I took a kind of cross between a jeep and a mini bus. Not quite as exciting [...]
McNally Robinson Booksellers &
Dundurn Press
present
Chris Rutkowski
Launching his new book
A World of UFOs
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Polo Park in the Events Alcove
Reading at 7:00 pm
Although many of the best-known UFO sightings have taken place in
North America, amazing stories of witnesses’ encounters with strange
disc-shaped objects – and their occupants – have come from every
corner of the globe. One [...]
Michael Blair and his newest mystery The Dells, which was released in December, recently received high praise from Jim Napier of The Sherbrooke Record.
“The Dells is nicely paced, with a fine sense of place and crisp dialogue … In the past few years Michael Blair has matured into one of Canada’s most accomplished crime writers, [...]
The media buzz continues for Kickstart: How Successful Canadians Got Started. This past Sunday, an interview with the authors ran on AM 680 in Toronto. Click here to listen to the interview. And Vancouver and Toronto commuters kickstarted their morning with an article about Kickstart in Metro featuring an interview with Alex and Andrew. Click here to read the article. [...]
With the web 2.0 trends continuing, online marketing and promotional initiatives taking place all over the internet, it is understandable that all of this can be overwhelming for any author. This is a humourous look at the frustration that online marketing can create for both authors and publishers. The video is actually by [...]
Still on a high from the buzz of the crowded rooms of Casa Loma, the site of Kickstart’s book launch, the idea of success resonates in my mind.
If you haven’t yet heard of Kickstart: How Successful Canadians Got Started, you can check it out here.
After completing their undergraduate degrees, the three authors – high school [...]
The Star Phoenix had a few good things to say about Valerie Sherrard’s latest junior and teen fiction novel, Speechless, which revolves around young Griffin who is shy and absolutely terrified of making a speech in front of the class.
“Speechless, a new young adult novel by Valerie Sherrard (Dundurn Press, paperback, $12.99), is a good [...]