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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Edge Science Fiction will be launching the debut novel of Victoria's Lee Danielle Hubbard on April 15th. She was kind enough to take the time to answer a few of my questions.

(If you swing by Edge's table at Keycon, Winnipeg's annual science fiction and fantasy convention, you'll have a chance to meet Lee there.)

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Chip Kidd may be known to book design aficianados as the genius behind some of the most striking cover designs of the last decade and a half, but as it turns out, he's pretty good between the covers as well. In 2001 he published The Cheese Monkeys--his first novel--and followed it up earlier this year with a sequel of sorts entitled The Learners.

In a recent interview with CBCNews' Andre Mayer, Kidd talks about the difference between writing and designing, and how the story of his protagonist, Happy, evolved from one book to the next.

For the full interview, click here.

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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Two of the highlights of March's schedule for us booksellers are the appearance in pocket book size of Anne Bishop's Belladonna as well as the release of her new Realms of the Blood book, Tangled Webs, featuring Surreal SaDiablo. It also marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of her first novel, Daughter of the Blood,. With nearly a dozen books in ten years, her fans are fortunate in having an author who can keep them satisfied, while keeping them guessing. I'm fortunate that Anne has agreed to do an interview with me, via email, which I'm pleased to share with you below.

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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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Tomson Highway, celebrated author of Kiss of the Fur Queen and plays such as Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing and Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout, has recently written what is being hailed as the first opera written in the Cree language. The opera, called The Journey or Pimooteewin, premieres in Toronto on February 15.

In an interview with CBC's Martin Morrow, Highway discusses in his inimitable style the influence of language on his imagination and the pitfalls of political correctness in First Nations playwrighting.

By any measure, Robert J. Sawyer is one of Canada's most successful writers, an achievement made even more amazing by his ability to reach it while writing books that are consistently marketed as Science Ficton. Robert's latest book Rollback is out in paperback this month, so I'm pleased to present an interview, conducted via email recently.

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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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