Support Local: Book Sale and Signing

Presented by Apt613.ca

In Person Poetry Fiction

Admission

Free

Saturday

Nov , 2013

11:00am

Eastern

Main Branch, Ottawa Public Library

120 Metcalfe • Ottawa

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Come and purchase books from local authors who write in English, French and Spanish. From 11:00 am to 4:00 PM.

Books will include fiction, non-fiction, YA novels, poetry, mystery, children’s books and comics.

This event is part of Support Local Month in November that is organized by Apartment613.

Special thanks to the Ottawa Public Library and Ottawa International Writers Festival for co-sponsoring. Participating bookstores are Kaleidoscope Kids (1018 Bank), Perfect Books (258 Elgin) and Octopus Books (116 Third Ave. and 251 Bank).

The following authors will be present to sign copies of their books:

Peggy Blair (mystery)

Katina Michelis (pregnancy and parenting)

Mike Martin (mystery)

Tudor Robins (YA novels)

Rita Donovan (fiction)

Jeff Ross (YA novels)

Deborah Jackson (science fiction)

Kate Jaimet (YA novels/middle-grade books)

Victoria Dunn (fiction & fantasy)

Pierre-Luc Bélanger (YA novels – F)

Christian McPherson (fiction/poetry)

Rachel Eugster (children’s books)

Chris Jennings (poetry)

Christiane D'Aoust (children’s books – E & F)

Shane Rhodes (poetry)

Alberte Villeneuve-Sinclair (novels/children’s books – E & F)

Camila Reimers (fiction – E & S)

Caroline Frechette (fiction/comics – E & F)

Gabriela Etcheverry (fiction – E, S & F)

Mirror Comics (comics)

Jorge Etcheverry (fiction/poetry – E & S)

All books are in English unless noted otherwise: E=English F=French S=Spanish

The Authors

Chris Jennings

Chris Jennings grew up in Calgary, studied in Toronto, and now lives in Ottawa. His poems and critical work have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Best Canadian Essays 2011. He was a founding editor of filling Station magazine, was assistant editor of the University of Toronto Quarterly and is currently on the board of Arc Poetry Magazine.

Chris Jennings

Christian McPherson

Christian McPherson's work has been published in Kiss Machine, Queen's Quarterly, The New Quarterly and dANDdelion, and in the anthologies Open Window III and Seeds 3. His stories and poems have won several awards and honourable mentions, including the John Spencer Hill Award, the Ottawa Public Library Short Story Award, and the Canadian Poetry Association's Poetry Competition. His books include Six Ways to Sunday (shortlisted for the 2008 ReLit Award for Short Fiction), two collections of poetry--Poems That Swim from My Brain Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship and The Sun Has Forgotten Where I Live--and his debut novel The Cube People, which was listed as one of the "44 Reasons to Love Ottawa" in Ottawa Magazine. He has a degree in philosophy from Carleton University and a computer programming diploma from Algonquin College, and he lives in Ottawa with his wife Marty and his two kids, Molly and Henry. Read Christian's blog at http://christianmcpherson.blogspot.com/.

Peggy Blair

Peggy Blair was a lawyer for more than thirty years and now works in real estate in Ottawa. A renovator, artist, and Level 5 boxer, she is perhaps best known for her #DearestMartha tweets during the Freedom Convoy. She lives with a friendly cat and a TV-watching dog.