Nick DiChario will be launching his new novel Valley of Day-Glo, a post-apocalyptic comedy, at our Grant Park location May 17th in a joint launch with fellow science fiction authors Robert J. Sawyer and Hayden Trenholm. DiChario, who previously held a science fiction/fantasy writer's workshop event for us, was kind enough to answer a few of my questions via email.

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By day, paranormal romance author Kate Brallier works as an editor for a major publishing house in New York. With her second novel The Boundless Deep just released, Kate was kind enough to answer some questions for our website prior to her March 22nd reading and signing at our Grant Park location.

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In the Eye of Heaven$9.99 add to cart

I recently had the pleasure of conducting a brief interview with fantasy author David Keck. David will be at our Grant Park location with his wife and fellow author Kate Brallier, March 22nd for a dual launch of In a Time of Treason, and The Boundless Deep.

Previously: The Boundless Deep By Kate Brallier

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The Boundless Deep$16.95 add to cart

Kate Brallier's sophomore effort more than lives up to the promise shown by her first novel, Seal Island. Admittedly, this was a bit of a stretch for me to read. I tend to like my stories a lot heavier on the paranormal than the romance. Still, some of my happiest discoveries have come from pushing my boundaries beyond my reading comfort zone. There are so many books that I would never have read and enjoyed without taking such a chance, and I am happy to add The Boundless Deep to that list.

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In a Time of Treason$28.95 add to cart

With his novels In the Eye of Heaven, and the forthcoming In a Time of Treason, David Keck has delved deeply into myth, folklore and history to create Errest the Old, a world both strikingly familiar, yet tantalizingly strange. I have stated before that In a Time of Treason was one of my most anticipated books of 2008, and it didn't disappoint.

When Keck writes about knights and tournaments you can smell the armour, feel the horses thunder across the lists and you shudder with the impact of lance on shield. The quieter moments of the novel are equally powerful, as Durand Col must choose between staying true to his Lord Lamoric, or his love, Lamoric's young wife Deorwen.

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Chef Kris Hamilton and manager Dawn Wreford hosted Tastes of Spain and Portugal: An Evening of Food & Wine last night in the Saskatoon Prairie Ink Restaurant, to rave reviews.

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A hometown crowd of over 400 people turned out to see Chris Jericho at McNally Robinson Grant Park tonight. Promoting his book A Lions Tale, Jericho took questions from the spiral staircase. Being a hometown crowd, his grade five teacher was on hand to let him know that she loved the book- and then chastised him for some of the language. Fans stood in a line that spanned the store waiting for a chance to meet Jericho and sign copies of his book.

You can see some pictures from the evening after the jump.

Previously: Jericho: Shakespeare Would be Writing for Wrestling Shows Today

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Wrestling star (and local Winnipeg boy) Chris Jericho will be at our Grant Park location in Winnipeg on Thursday, November 15. He'll be reading, signing and answering questions about his new book A Lion’s Tale: Around the World in Spandex.

You might think that this is another one of those big name entertainment confessional type books. I did- but then I saw this interview on bookvideos.tv. Jericho (who studied journalism early on) is delightful as he compares wrestling entertainment to Shakepeare and his autobiography to War and Peace and The Catcher in the Rye. The slight twinkle in his eye as he does so lets us all in on what he's up to- and that he's got a sense of humour every Winnipegger will recognize as home-grown.

Too bad the cover-art doesn't get this across.

You can watch a YouTube version after the jump.

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In the province where it all began, McNally Robinson Saskatoon will be hosting three of Saskatchewan's own internationally recognized experts on the health-care system in Canada for the launch of Medicare: Facts, Myths, Problems, Promise.

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