a delible mind

I’ll be at the Book Expo this Sunday June 10th at 1 p.m., signing books at the Publishers Group Canada Booth (#319). If you’re in Toronto, come by and say hello!

The Vancouver launch of Delible is on tomorrow night:
Friday, May 18th, 8 p.m.
Spartacus Books
319 West Hastings (2nd floor)
Come celebrate with me.

So, there’s a reading from Delible up on Trevor Cole’s wonderful site, Authors Aloud.
On the weekend, the Vancouver Sun did an interview/profile:

This Thursday, the OPEN TEXT reading series continues with Jon Paul Fiorentino reading at Capilano College at 12:30 p.m. (Cedar 140, Cap College, 2055 Purcell Way).
And Friday night (the 18th) is the Vancouver launch [...]

While in Montreal for Blue Met, I met with Jeanette Kelly at All in a Weekend and was interviewed about the book. They’ve archived it here….

Highlights of Blue Metropolis:

Seeing Francesca LoDico win the Accenti Magazine award for non fiction for her beautiful piece “The Disappearing Sicily.”
Late night Chinese at VIPs with a lot of lovely folks, some old friends, some new. Seeing David McGimpsey, Jason Camlot, Donavan, and my lovely editor, Jon Paul Fiorentino (who was the best editor — [...]

So, Delible came off the press yesterday and Insomniac is shipping it out. I’ll see it for the first time when I arrive in Montreal for the launch at Blue Met.
This morning, Bernard Kelly had a smart review in the Gazette:

If you’re in Montreal, I’ll be launching the new novel, Delible, there in a couple of weeks and would love to see you.
Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival
Weds, April 25th, 8 p.m.
DELTA CENTRE-VILLE Hotel
777, University Street, Square-Victoria Metro.
(Room: La Terrasse; free!)

I’m just putting in the last edits on the new novel, Delible (uh, again), which I’ve been working on forever, or so it seems (of course, abandoning a few 200 page drafts and beginning from scratch is an integral part of the process, which is why it takes me so long). The thinking began in [...]

So, what else but writing sees you ask yourself questions like: If one of the teenage rocker girls in my novel wrote a book report on The Lord of the Flies, what would she say? And what else but writing would allow you to then spend an inordinate amount of doing the hatchet job that [...]