The 29th Ottawa Antiquarian Bookfair is on again this year with a few changes. It will now just be held on one day, Sunday October 4th, and at a new location – Tudor Hall (Riverside & Uplands). We’ll be there again this year with a booth full of fresh stock and interesting acquisitions from the [...]
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Richard
Conan fans rejoice, we just acquired a large collection of Robert E. Howard’s books. While primarily paperbacks, there is just about every Howard book ever publish from the Conan series to many of his lesser known titles like Black Vulmea’s Vengeance and Almuric. There are also a number of related titles like the Red Sonja [...]
The last day of Anticipation saw the Convention enter into a bit of a wind-down mode with a reduced schedule of events & sessions and an early afternoon wrap-up for the Dealer’s Room. The bad news I had to kick my day off with was that the one session I wanted to see, No User Servicable Parts Inside with [...]
After a late night, perhaps starting off Sunday morning with a session on Putting Philosophy in SF wasn’t the best option for a fuzzy brain, but by the time the coffee kicked in and the panel led by James Morrow warmed up, the session turned out to be quite interesting despite getting a touch heavy at times.  The [...]
We just received copies of the 3 inaugural books from Cameron Anstee’s Apt.9 Press which were launched just last week. The chapbooks contain wonderful work by three very talented poets and were printed in a limited edition of 50. The sharply designed and handbound covers also make a very distinctive impression when reading. Congrats to Cameron on the successful launch of his small press and best of luck with your [...]
A friend of mine and fellow sci-fi/fantasy enthusiast, John Price, made it down for the weekend to check out the Con and hit a few sessions with me. The first one we went to was What Makes a Good Story? with Bill Willingham, Robert Silverberg and Nancy Kress among others on the panel. The room was [...]
Not sure if this monstrous poem of grafted Twitter posts should be described as creative, crafty or just plain creepy.  “The Longest Poem in the World” is composed by aggregating real-time public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme. It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses/day. Then again, finding amongst the clutter the odd couplet [...]
I started the Friday off by catching a great session on writing across genres and the troubles it can often entail. The panel (which included James Patrick Kelly and Michael Swanwick) was full of great anecdotes of times they tried tocross or merge genres only to raise debate among their publishers as to whether or not the story [...]
Apartment613 (the best site for what’s happening in Ottawa), is holding a Fall Fiction Contest.  Even better, yours truly will be on the panel of judges for the contest along with Angela Putz from CBC Radio and Barbara Clubb, Ottawa’s Head Librarian. The contest is looking for entries of original fiction of 1000 words or less with no [...]
A little overdue, but after a well deserved rest (at least I think so), here goes our recount of the Bytown Bookshop’s five days in Montreal for Anticipation – The 67th World Sci-fi Convention. First and foremost I have to give my thanks to Andrew Cornell of Cornell Booksellers (with whom we shared a booth) for handling all [...]