Author Kate Inglis is one of those people who you meet and never want to leave. I’d move in next door if she didn’t live on the opposite coast. But aside from being lovely, she’s a great author. Her first book, The Dread Crew is an imaginative tale...

Follow me on Twitter or become a fan of the Boxcar Marketing Facebook page to be entered into the draw for a Reading Is Sexy Calendar. I’ll make the draw on December 16 and promptly mail you the calendar. I have 2 calendars to give away, 1 for the...

Attention Readers: This calendar is hot. The 2010 Reading Is Sexy Calendar goes on sale this week to promote literacy and to raise funds to help kids and adults with dyslexia become literate. Buy the calendar. I sat down (virtually) with Emme...

I had a sneak peak at some new books from Random House of Canada Ltd. and these are my favourites: See the list on Amazon’s Listmania 1.  Ossuaries by Dionne Brand (poetry) “Dionne Brand’s mesmerizing new collection of poems is about human zoos;...

The New York-based Shen Yun is coming to Vancouver at the end of March. The show is an amazing revival of China’s five-millennial-old artistic traditions that thrived before decades of suppression by the Chinese communist state. It is presented by two...