Calendar
Where Our Authors Are Appearing. Come and join us!

 Date

 Alicia Hendley

Nate

Hendley

Patrick Lima & John Scanlan  Paul Lima  Simon Rose Kelly Stephens

Lorina Stephens 

February 9, 2010 through June 9, 2010      
Give your aspiring young authors the unique opportunity to work with a published author by employing an online writer in residence, right in your own home. Many children are interested in writing, but often they need help to channel their ability in a particular direction and give them the encouragement they need to move forward.

Having access to professional advice can encourage a child in their creativity, whatever form that may take. Through a series of e mail assignments, we explore where ideas come from and how to turn them into stories, basic story structure, plot development, creating characters, developing dialogue and more to help develop writing ability.

You can start a set of workshops at any time. After you register for a workshop, you will receive your assignments via e mail. You complete the assignments at your own pace and send them to me by return e mail. There is no time limit and participants may take as long as they wish to complete their full set of workshops.

Further details and registration information are available at
http://www.simon-rose.com/online_wkshp_yngadults.htm
 

 

 February 17, 2010        

Teleclasses with the Children's Writers Coaching Club at the National Writing for Children Centre

Magic in Stories for Children Part One: Fairy Tales and Familiar Faces

http://www.getrealresources.com/

   
February 20, 2010        

Writing and Publishing Your Children's Novel

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Registration is here 

   
March 1, 2010        

History is a Thing of the Past - Live on Blog Talk Radio

 

Simon's second novel, The Sorcerer's Letterbox, features the mystery of the Princes in the Tower, the boy king Edward V and his younger brother, supposedly murdered in the Tower of London in 1483 by Richard III. 

This show examines the use of history as inspiration for works for fiction, making use of real personalities and events, and the need for accurate historical research. Join Simon Rose and his special guests Kathleen McDonnell, author of 1212: Year of the Journey, and Lois Harris, author of Charlie Russell: Tale-Telling Cowboy Artist, for the show on March 1 at noon Mountain/1pm Central/2 pm Eastern. Check out the show on blog Talk Radio right here. 

 
   
March 13, 2010      

Paul Lima and WriteWare present: Wite Killer Query Letters Editors will Read.

Location & Time: St. Luke's Anglican Church, 1513 Dixie Road, Mississauga, ON. 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Cost: $79.00 (general public), $65.00 (members of WEN, PWAC, HHWEN, WCDR)

Pay online at www.writeware.ca Go to the workshops page and choose Write Killer Query Letters Editors will Read. 

Writing Children's Books - Intro
9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Forming Fictional Characters
1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m

Bowness High School, 4627 - 77 Street NW, Calgary, Alberta

Registration is here

   
March 27, 2010             An Espresso Book Machine Event, hosted by the University of Waterloo Bookstore and simulcast at Titles, the McMaster University bookstore. Lorina will be signing copies of her new fantasy novel, From Mountains of Ice, as well as And the Angels Sang and Shadow Song.

Location & Time: Main Event: Bookstore at South Campus Hall Concourse,  University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo, ON, and simulcast at Titles, McMaster University, Gilmour Hall, Room B101, 1280 Main Street W., Hamilton, ON. 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

March 31, 2010          

Teleclasses with the Children's Writers Coaching Club at the National Writing for Children Centre

Magic in Stories for Children Part Two: The Roots of Magic and Mystical Powers

http://www.getrealresources.com/

   
April 10, 2010        

April 10 Writing and publishing Your Children's Novel, High River public Library, High Rover, Alberta

   
April 17, 2010        

Calgary Young Writers Conference, Crescent Heights high School, Calgary April 17, 9 am to 4 pm 

   
April 24, 2010             Lorina will be signing copies of her new fantasy novel, From Mountains of Ice, as well as And the Angels Sang and Shadow Song.

Location & Time: Chapters, 86 Fanshawe, London, ON, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

April 28, 2010        

Teleclasses with the Children's Writers Coaching Club at the National Writing for Children Centre

Magic in Stories for Children Part Three: Creatures and Features of the Fantasy Realm

http://www.getrealresources.com/

   
May 1, 2010        

Foothills Young Writers Conference, High River, Alberta, May 1, 9 am to 4 pm

   
May 8, 2010        

Lord Beaverbrook High School, 9019 Fairmount Drive SE, Calgary, Alberta

Writing Children's Books - Intro 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Forming Fictional Characters 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m

Registration is here 

   
May 15, 2010             Lorina will be signing copies of her new fantasy novel, From Mountains of Ice, as well as And the Angels Sang and Shadow Song.

Location & Time: Indigo, 259 Princess St., Kingston, ON, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

May 26, 2010        

Teleclasses with the Children's Writers Coaching Club at the National Writing for Children Centre

Magic in Stories for Children Part Four: Magic in Time Travel Stories and the Superhero Genre

http://www.getrealresources.com/

   
May 30, 2010        

Alberta Association of Library Technicians Conference, Calgary Alberta 

   
June 19, 2010             Lorina will be signing copies of her new fantasy novel, From Mountains of Ice, as well as And the Angels Sang and Shadow Song.

Location & Time: Chapters, Square One Mall, Mississauga, ON, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

To be confirmed

June 23, 2010        

Teleclasses with the Children's Writers Coaching Club at the National Writing for Children Centre

Magic in Stories for Children Part Five: Magic and Reality, Limitations and Fatal Weaknesses

http://www.getrealresources.com/

   
July 17, 2010             Lorina will be signing copies of her new fantasy novel, From Mountains of Ice, as well as And the Angels Sang and Shadow Song.

Location & Time: Chapters, 873 Lansdowne, Peterborough, ON, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

July 21, 2010        

Teleclasses with the Children's Writers Coaching Club at the National Writing for Children Centre

Magic in Stories for Children Part Six: FairMagical Objects, Secret Languages and Mysterious Books

http://www.getrealresources.com/

   
August 21, 2010             Lorina will be signing copies of her new fantasy novel, From Mountains of Ice, as well as And the Angels Sang and Shadow Song.

Location & Time: Chapters, Durham Centre, 90 Kingston Rd., Ajax, ON, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

To be confirmed

September 26, 2010 Word on the Street

Five Rivers Chapmanry will be at Word on the Street with many of our authors.

Location & Time: Queen's Park, Toronto, ON 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Word on the Street

Five Rivers Chapmanry will be at Word on the Street with many of our authors.

Location & Time: Queen's Park, Toronto, ON 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

  Word on the Street

Five Rivers Chapmanry will be at Word on the Street with many of our authors.

Location & Time: Queen's Park, Toronto, ON 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

   

Word on the Street

Five Rivers Chapmanry will be at Word on the Street with many of our authors.

Location & Time: Queen's Park, Toronto, ON 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Word on the Street

Five Rivers Chapmanry will be at Word on the Street with many of our authors.

Location & Time: Queen's Park, Toronto, ON 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

October 2, 2010  

Book Launch with Espresso Book Machine for Crystal Death: Methamphetamine, North America's #1 Killer Drug.

Location & Time: McMaster University Bookstore & University of Calgary, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

To be confirmed.

         
October 30, 2010             Lorina will be signing copies of her new fantasy novel, From Mountains of Ice, as well as And the Angels Sang and Shadow Song.

Location & Time: Chapters, 76 Barrie View Dr., Barrie, ON, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

To be confirmed

November 27, 2010             Lorina will be signing copies of her new fantasy novel, From Mountains of Ice, as well as And the Angels Sang and Shadow Song.

Location & Time: Chapters, East Woodbridge Centre, 3900 Hwy #7, Woodbridge, ON, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

To be confirmed