Happenings

My short story collection, And Also Sharks, was published last spring by Cormorant Books! I am very excited about my cover art, by the wonderful Lindsay Page.

I’m very excited to be one of the judges for this year’s Toronto Star Short Story Contest!

One of my very favourite happenings this year was electronically meeting the students from 3a 2011-2012, Midtfyns Gymnasium in Denmark, who studied some stories from And Also Sharks with their teacher Eva Pors. You can read (and watch!) their thoughts on my stories here. Many thanks to Gale Zoë Garnett, who presented And Also Sharks to the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies, which is how my book came to Eva’s attention.

My short story “What I Would Say” is in The Journey Prize Stories 23!

I had a great time as the June online writer-in-residence at Open Book Toronto. If you’re curious, you can read my archived posts here.

Thanks to Jonathan Culp of 8 Fest and Bryan Ibeas of Cormorant for their help with putting the first And Also Sharks book trailer together.

And here is the second book trailer! Thank you to the fantastic artists involved: Rob Elliott, Evan Munday, Aaron Leighton, Mike White, and Derek Humphrey.

I had a total and complete blastathon at the And Also Sharks Toronto launch in April. A huge and gleeful thank you to everyone who attended—it would not have been a party without you. Extra thanks go to Derek Wuenschirs & Chris Finley of Pixperience for their photo-taking powers, and Ricky Lam of Panic Manual for his head-bopping musical majesty. Here are some photos from the movie-theatre part, courtesy of Derek): 1) A happy crowd! 2) Marc Côté, Cormorant’s publisher, giving his very sweet introduction 3) That’s me! 4) Big screen book trailer

(And just a reminder that if you had your photo taken at the launch, you can go to pix.andalsosharks.com and enter the code at the bottom of your printed picture, and via special magic technology, you can view and share your face-on-the-book-cover photo online!)

Look everybody—it’s YOSS (Year Of the Short Story)!

Listen to me read from Pulpy & Midge on Authors Aloud.

Pulpy & Midge cover spotted on CBC’s Being Erica!