Twelve Questions on Twelve Trees

Author J.D. Carpenter fills us in on the background of his recently released novel, Twelve Trees.
Tell us about your book.
Twelve Trees is the story of a man sitting on a stool in a bar betting the horseswith the local bookie when events conspire to unseat him.
How did you come up with the idea for this [...]

Translation Rounds

Translator, Liedewy Hawke, gives us some insight on her recently released work, The Postman’s Round.
Tell us about your book.
The Postman’s Round is a novel about a Montreal postman who falls in love with a Guadeloupean woman he has never seen, but whose mail to a poet along his route he steams open and reads before delivering [...]

Young Adult Fiction In The News

A Great Start to February with Dundurn Young Adult
Early February brought great praise for Dundurn’s Young Adult Fiction. Both Larry McCloskey’s Murder Fit for a King and Valerie Sherrard’s Speechless made waves in the press.
 McCloskey’s book was mentioned in the Ottawa Citizen where it was deemed a “tale thatwill keep young readers glued until the last page,” and [...]

Rebroadcast of The Restoration of Emily on CBC

 
Fans of author Kim Moritsugu and literary fiction will be pleased to hear that there will be a rebroadcast of The Restoration of Emily on CBC Radio One.  The book is read by Karin Konoval and the broadcast will air at 1:30pm on Monday December 3rd, 2007.  Listen to the broadcast live online!
 

Flamingnet Reviews A Deadly Distance and Speechless

Flamingnet, a YA-centric website that is dedicated to promoting reading has recently posted a review of A Deadly Distance by Heather Down, and Speechless by Valerie Sherrard.

A Deadly Distance was reviewed by a 13 year-old (JHap) who seems to have been quite taken with the story which is based on the history between the Beothuks [...]

Author of The Third Eye interviewed on OMNI2

Mahtab Narsimhan, author of The Third Eye, was on OMNI2 yesterday (Sunday, November 11, 2007) in a Hindi news-magazine programme called Badhai Ho (which means congratulations). Don’t worry if you did not have a chance to catch it on air at 11:30am yesterday! The show will air again on Wednesday November 14th at [...]