Each author will make a few remarks and read from recent prose. After the readings, you’re welcome to stay to talk with the participants or to purchase books.

Here are more details about the authors:

Dave Stevenson worked as an actor, stunt man and martial-arts expert, leading to his book, Dangerous Days, co-authored with the award-winning playwright Andy Halmay.

James W. Foster, the author of four horror novels (Dianne Hollander, Canyon, Tales of Vollmer’s Hollow One and Two), is working on a fifth novel.

Jay Stoyan, the author of Flanagan’s Life Inside an Irish Street Gang, also has produced a short film, White to Black.

Joanna Shawana speaks out against violence in Voice of an Eagle, her book of poetry and aboriginal teachings. She’s busy on a second book, a self-help guide to break the abuse cycle. Joanna works with abuse victims at a Toronto women’s shelter.

Les Smith is releasing a business book, On Having Power, to give executives and business students an intimate knowledge of power and how to use it to reach goals.

Louis Jannetta, in King of the Maitre’d’s, My Life Among the Stars, returns readers to the days of elegance as he reveals the secrets of stars who performed at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel’s Imperial Room.

Richard (Dick) Cooper, formerly in the popular 1970s rock band The Cooper Brothers, has written Jukebox, a comedic rock saga with rare glimpses into the music business as it really was.

Sarah Hylton
Rain Publishing
Toronto, Canada

(September 21, 2007)



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