The votes are in and Ken Greenhorn's photo "Quiet Moment" has won first place in the 2010 McNally Robinson (Saskatoon) Freedom to Read Photo Contest!

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Saskatoon author and breast cancer survivor, Laurie Bonello launched her book Across the Void in early July and she kindly took the time to answer a few questions about her book and her writing process.

NJB: Who is the audience for Across the Void? Who did you write it for?

LB: Across the Void is for anyone who is facing challenges in life-so it is really for everyone. A person who has gone through a serious illness, especially breast cancer, will relate to Across the Void even more, but anyone who is ready to claim a better life, a better way to move through life's challenges, will find it of benefit.

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Denare Beach author, Myrna Guymer, has been awarded the Canadian Science Writers' 2008 Science in Society Journalism Award in the children's book category for her book The Canadian Shield Alphabet. Guymer attended the gala awards event in Sudbury Saturday, May 23 to accept the certificate and $1,000.

Internationally renowned and award winning Science Fiction author Robert J. Sawyer will be spending two months (June and July) as the very first Writer In Residence at the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron (CLS) here in Saskatoon and will be the very first Writer in Residence at a Synchrotron anywhere in the world. He will be doing a reading and signing of his newest novel, Wake, at McNally Robinson in Saskatoon at 7:30 pm on June 4.

His newest novel Wake, the first book in a trilogy about the spontaneous emergence of consciousness by the world wide web launched in April and at the end of April it was announced that a television series based on his 1999 novel Flashforward will premiere on ABC in the Fall. Robert took some time out of his extremely busy schedule to answer a few questions about his Writer in Residency, Wake and Flashforward.

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