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jeffreyabLIBRARIES, MUSEUMS & CULTURAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT
Sarnia Library
124 Christina Street,
Sarnia, ON N7T 2M6
Telephone: (519) 337-3291
Fax: (519) 337-3041
www.lclmg.org
NEWS RELEASE
Monday, April 24, 2006 For Immediate Release
Sarnia Library Presents: GenreCon 2006 A Celebration of Reading and Writing”
Sarnia, ON – Want to improve your writing skills or do you like to talk about books? Then come to GenreCon, a library convention featuring dozens of authors, at the Sarnia Library on Saturday, May 6th. Activities begin at 10 a.m. and a meet and greet reception will start at 11 a.m. GenreCon will continue until library closing at 5:30 p.m.
“This year’s event will be of particular note to horror fans as award winning authors and editors Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi will be in attendance,” says event organizer Jeff Beeler, Reference Librarian. “Savory is familiar with Sarnia-Lambton, having attended St. Clair high school.”
Other events at the day-long event include:
• 10 a.m. - “Show and Tell Panel on Settings” with authors Marcy Italiano, Julia Vyrheid, and Jeff DeLuzio. The writers read a scene from their work then move to individual tables with their respective photos, picture books and research material from the scene that they read. The audience rotates amongst the tables to have a more intimate discussion with each writer.
• At 11 a.m. a “Meet and Greet” gathering with the authors and other attendees will allow for individual questions about writing and their kind of fiction.
• 12 p.m. the panels begin with “Talk, talk, talk: The Importance of Dialogue to the Story” with Doug Smith, Dennis Collins, Jeff DeLuzio, Brett Savory, Sandra Kasturi, and Carrie Chesney
• 1 p.m. - “Why do I write genre fiction when I could be gunning for the Giller Prize?” Mel Bradshaw, P.J. Coldren, Doug Smith, Brett Savory, and Julia Vryheid could write about fiction based on everyday life but they don’t, they write about the extraordinary. Come to this panel and find out why.
• 2 p.m. - “How Much Research Do I Really Need to Do?” Dennis Collins, Mel Bradshaw, Doug Smith, Jeff DeLuzio, and Carrie Chesney will talk about where to look and how and when to know it’s time to stop.
• 3 p.m. - “But That’s Not Where the Bank Was!” – How much reality? Marcy Italiano, Mel Bradshaw, Dennis Collins, Sandra Kasturi, and Carrie Chesney will discuss whether fiction has to be an exact image of reality.
• 4 p.m. - Panelists Marcy Italiano, P.J. Coldren, Dennis Collins, Brett Savory, Julia Vyrheid, and Sandra Kasturi will discuss “Writing as a Second Career.” They will talk about how to write while also working a day job.
• 5 p.m. - “Show and Tell Panel on Settings Part 2” with Marcy Italiano, Julia Vyrheid, and Jeff DeLuzio. The audience will look at a picture, list words describing it and write a paragraph putting the words together and voila: a scene in a setting is born.
At 5:30 the Optional Dinner Expedition departs for Ups and Downs. Those interested in attending are asked to contact the organizers so they reservations can be confirmed.
Seating is limited for all activities; please contact the Reference Department at (519) 337-3291 to reserve your seat.
The Sarnia Branch of the Lambton County Library is located at 124 Christina Street South, Sarnia, Ontario, one hour northeast of Detroit, Michigan on I-94 and one hour west of London, Ontario on Highway 402. GenreCon is part of Need to Read week.
The following writers will be attending GenreCon 2005:
Bill Avery works as an electrician during the day but does his real work in his off hours. He enjoys writing and has two short stories published in the pulp magazine Romance with Attitude. His current obsession is website development and helps other writers establish a presence on the net to market themselves and their books. He currently administers several websites; Authors By Design, Polarsview, Runes Magazine, as well as Granite Towers Writing Group. He is also a founding member of the Elysian Fields critique group.
Mel Bradshaw Victorian Canada provides the setting for Mel Bradshaw's first crime novel. Death in the Age of Steam was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award and won the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Mystery category. His second historical mystery, Quarrel with the Foe, leaps ahead 70 years to the Roaring Twenties. Various journals have published Mel's short stories. He has also written on military history for The Canadian Forum. Bradshaw was born and raised in Toronto, where he took his B.A. and was film editor of The Varsity. He holds a post-graduate degree in philosophy from Oxford University. His non-writing career is teaching English, which he has done in Canada and Southeast Asia.
Carrie Chesney earned her degree in genealogical research from Brigham Young University and spent 25 years as a professional researcher. In this line of work she has three published volumes of Ontario Marriage Registrations. Her first novel of the Lander Series, Christopher, is currently available in hardcover. Chesney co-owns and operates the online writing community Authors by Design which won the Preditors and Editors Top Ten Writer's Sites Award. The mother of six, she currently resides in Kitchener, Ontario. She is a member of the Canadian Author’s Association, Women in the Arts, the Canadian Romance Authors' Network, and Sisters in Crime.
P.J. Coldren is a mystery reviewer for www.reviewingtheevidence.com and for Crimespree Magazine; preliminary judge for the Malice Domestic/St. Martin's Press Best First Traditional Mystery Contest for 16 years; reader for Poisoned Pen Press; has a book-a-day reading habit; lives in lower Northern Michigan with her husband Darryl Smith, has two cats (Bunter & Mongo), and a large dog (Bruno).
Dennis Collins on himself: “Growing up as a 50's teenager in Detroit, my interests leaned toward anything with wheels and loud exhaust pipes. I naturally migrated toward the automobile industry where I experienced a fulfilling career in engineering. It has always been my dream to be an author and with my retirement came the opportunity to write. My first mystery novel, The Unreal McCoy, is available through Independence Books. The second installment in that series, Turn Left at September, was published in 2005. I am currently seeking representation for this work. Book number three, For Thine is the Power, has recently been finished and is off to the editor for a little housekeeping.”
Jeff DeLuzio is a writer and teacher who currently lives in London, Ontario. He has published many articles, works of short fiction, and one collection of short stories, Snow-Man's Land. He also has workshopped six original plays with teenagers. As the Timeshredder he has written hundreds of serious articles, reviews and humour pieces online, and appeared as a panelist at the 61st World Science Fiction Convention. This will be his third appearance as a GenreCon panelist.
Marcy Italiano lives in Waterloo, Ontario. After publishing a number of short stories and poetry in the horror genre, she released her first book, Pain Machine, in 2003. While finishing up her second novel, she and her husband ran into a little weather in New Orleans. When she's not building websites, she's currently working on Katrina and the Frenchman, a non-fiction account of their trip, and Purge, a fictional horror novel. www.marcyitaliano.com (www.theweblizard.com by day.)
Sandra Kasturi is the editor of the speculative poetry anthology, The Stars as Seen from this Particular Angle of Night, from The Bakka Collection/Red Deer Press. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and she has a cultural essay, “Divine Secrets of the Yaga Sisterhood” appearing in the new anthology, Girls Who Bite Back, from Sumach Press. Kasturi runs her own imprint, Kelp Queen Press, and has won a Bram Stoker Award for her editorial work at the online magazine, ChiZine.
Brett Alexander Savory is the Bram Stoker Award-winning Editor-in-Chief of online magazine ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, is a Developmental Editor at Scholastic Canada, has had over 40 stories published, written two novels—In and Down and The Distance Travelled—and writes for Rue Morgue Magazine. In March 2006, Necro Publications released signed limited edition hardcovers and trade paperbacks of The Distance Travelled. In the works are a third novel, Running Beneath the Skin, and a dark comic book series with artist Homeros Gilani. When he's not writing, reading, or editing, he plays drums for the southern-tinged hard rock band The Diablo Red, whose debut album, Rojos, was released in late 2005. Diablo's second album, A Statue of Mary with Bullhorns, was released in March 2006.
Douglas Smith is a Toronto science fiction writer whose stories have appeared in over sixty professional magazines and anthologies in twenty-six countries and twenty-one languages, including Interzone, The Third Alternative, Best New Horror, Baen's Universe, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, Cicada, On Spec, Oceans of the Mind, and Prairie Fire, as well as anthologies from Penguin/Roc, DAW, and others. Doug was a John W. Campbell Award finalist for best new writer in 2001 and has twice won the Canadian Aurora Award for short fiction. He is currently completing his first novel based on his award-winning short story, "Spirit Dance." His web site can be found at www.smithwriter.com.
Julia Vryheid’s first mystery book, Killed by Common Sense, was published by Erica House, and she has written numerous articles for Crime Scene. She studied creative writing at the University of Toronto and completed a residency program in mystery writing at the Banff School of Fine Arts. Born in the Netherlands, Julia grew up in Alberta, now lives in Toronto and is presently working as a Senior Policy Advisor for the provincial government.
For more information about Lambton County, visit www.lambtononline.ca
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Contact:
Jeffrey Allan Beeler or Ellen Dark
Reference Librarians
Sarnia Branch, Lambton County Library
124 Christina Street South
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada N7T 8E1
Telephone: (519) 337-3291
Sarnia Library
124 Christina Street,
Sarnia, ON N7T 2M6
Telephone: (519) 337-3291
Fax: (519) 337-3041
www.lclmg.org
NEWS RELEASE
Monday, April 24, 2006 For Immediate Release
Sarnia Library Presents: GenreCon 2006 A Celebration of Reading and Writing”
Sarnia, ON – Want to improve your writing skills or do you like to talk about books? Then come to GenreCon, a library convention featuring dozens of authors, at the Sarnia Library on Saturday, May 6th. Activities begin at 10 a.m. and a meet and greet reception will start at 11 a.m. GenreCon will continue until library closing at 5:30 p.m.
“This year’s event will be of particular note to horror fans as award winning authors and editors Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi will be in attendance,” says event organizer Jeff Beeler, Reference Librarian. “Savory is familiar with Sarnia-Lambton, having attended St. Clair high school.”
Other events at the day-long event include:
• 10 a.m. - “Show and Tell Panel on Settings” with authors Marcy Italiano, Julia Vyrheid, and Jeff DeLuzio. The writers read a scene from their work then move to individual tables with their respective photos, picture books and research material from the scene that they read. The audience rotates amongst the tables to have a more intimate discussion with each writer.
• At 11 a.m. a “Meet and Greet” gathering with the authors and other attendees will allow for individual questions about writing and their kind of fiction.
• 12 p.m. the panels begin with “Talk, talk, talk: The Importance of Dialogue to the Story” with Doug Smith, Dennis Collins, Jeff DeLuzio, Brett Savory, Sandra Kasturi, and Carrie Chesney
• 1 p.m. - “Why do I write genre fiction when I could be gunning for the Giller Prize?” Mel Bradshaw, P.J. Coldren, Doug Smith, Brett Savory, and Julia Vryheid could write about fiction based on everyday life but they don’t, they write about the extraordinary. Come to this panel and find out why.
• 2 p.m. - “How Much Research Do I Really Need to Do?” Dennis Collins, Mel Bradshaw, Doug Smith, Jeff DeLuzio, and Carrie Chesney will talk about where to look and how and when to know it’s time to stop.
• 3 p.m. - “But That’s Not Where the Bank Was!” – How much reality? Marcy Italiano, Mel Bradshaw, Dennis Collins, Sandra Kasturi, and Carrie Chesney will discuss whether fiction has to be an exact image of reality.
• 4 p.m. - Panelists Marcy Italiano, P.J. Coldren, Dennis Collins, Brett Savory, Julia Vyrheid, and Sandra Kasturi will discuss “Writing as a Second Career.” They will talk about how to write while also working a day job.
• 5 p.m. - “Show and Tell Panel on Settings Part 2” with Marcy Italiano, Julia Vyrheid, and Jeff DeLuzio. The audience will look at a picture, list words describing it and write a paragraph putting the words together and voila: a scene in a setting is born.
At 5:30 the Optional Dinner Expedition departs for Ups and Downs. Those interested in attending are asked to contact the organizers so they reservations can be confirmed.
Seating is limited for all activities; please contact the Reference Department at (519) 337-3291 to reserve your seat.
The Sarnia Branch of the Lambton County Library is located at 124 Christina Street South, Sarnia, Ontario, one hour northeast of Detroit, Michigan on I-94 and one hour west of London, Ontario on Highway 402. GenreCon is part of Need to Read week.
The following writers will be attending GenreCon 2005:
Bill Avery works as an electrician during the day but does his real work in his off hours. He enjoys writing and has two short stories published in the pulp magazine Romance with Attitude. His current obsession is website development and helps other writers establish a presence on the net to market themselves and their books. He currently administers several websites; Authors By Design, Polarsview, Runes Magazine, as well as Granite Towers Writing Group. He is also a founding member of the Elysian Fields critique group.
Mel Bradshaw Victorian Canada provides the setting for Mel Bradshaw's first crime novel. Death in the Age of Steam was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award and won the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Mystery category. His second historical mystery, Quarrel with the Foe, leaps ahead 70 years to the Roaring Twenties. Various journals have published Mel's short stories. He has also written on military history for The Canadian Forum. Bradshaw was born and raised in Toronto, where he took his B.A. and was film editor of The Varsity. He holds a post-graduate degree in philosophy from Oxford University. His non-writing career is teaching English, which he has done in Canada and Southeast Asia.
Carrie Chesney earned her degree in genealogical research from Brigham Young University and spent 25 years as a professional researcher. In this line of work she has three published volumes of Ontario Marriage Registrations. Her first novel of the Lander Series, Christopher, is currently available in hardcover. Chesney co-owns and operates the online writing community Authors by Design which won the Preditors and Editors Top Ten Writer's Sites Award. The mother of six, she currently resides in Kitchener, Ontario. She is a member of the Canadian Author’s Association, Women in the Arts, the Canadian Romance Authors' Network, and Sisters in Crime.
P.J. Coldren is a mystery reviewer for www.reviewingtheevidence.com and for Crimespree Magazine; preliminary judge for the Malice Domestic/St. Martin's Press Best First Traditional Mystery Contest for 16 years; reader for Poisoned Pen Press; has a book-a-day reading habit; lives in lower Northern Michigan with her husband Darryl Smith, has two cats (Bunter & Mongo), and a large dog (Bruno).
Dennis Collins on himself: “Growing up as a 50's teenager in Detroit, my interests leaned toward anything with wheels and loud exhaust pipes. I naturally migrated toward the automobile industry where I experienced a fulfilling career in engineering. It has always been my dream to be an author and with my retirement came the opportunity to write. My first mystery novel, The Unreal McCoy, is available through Independence Books. The second installment in that series, Turn Left at September, was published in 2005. I am currently seeking representation for this work. Book number three, For Thine is the Power, has recently been finished and is off to the editor for a little housekeeping.”
Jeff DeLuzio is a writer and teacher who currently lives in London, Ontario. He has published many articles, works of short fiction, and one collection of short stories, Snow-Man's Land. He also has workshopped six original plays with teenagers. As the Timeshredder he has written hundreds of serious articles, reviews and humour pieces online, and appeared as a panelist at the 61st World Science Fiction Convention. This will be his third appearance as a GenreCon panelist.
Marcy Italiano lives in Waterloo, Ontario. After publishing a number of short stories and poetry in the horror genre, she released her first book, Pain Machine, in 2003. While finishing up her second novel, she and her husband ran into a little weather in New Orleans. When she's not building websites, she's currently working on Katrina and the Frenchman, a non-fiction account of their trip, and Purge, a fictional horror novel. www.marcyitaliano.com (www.theweblizard.com by day.)
Sandra Kasturi is the editor of the speculative poetry anthology, The Stars as Seen from this Particular Angle of Night, from The Bakka Collection/Red Deer Press. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and she has a cultural essay, “Divine Secrets of the Yaga Sisterhood” appearing in the new anthology, Girls Who Bite Back, from Sumach Press. Kasturi runs her own imprint, Kelp Queen Press, and has won a Bram Stoker Award for her editorial work at the online magazine, ChiZine.
Brett Alexander Savory is the Bram Stoker Award-winning Editor-in-Chief of online magazine ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, is a Developmental Editor at Scholastic Canada, has had over 40 stories published, written two novels—In and Down and The Distance Travelled—and writes for Rue Morgue Magazine. In March 2006, Necro Publications released signed limited edition hardcovers and trade paperbacks of The Distance Travelled. In the works are a third novel, Running Beneath the Skin, and a dark comic book series with artist Homeros Gilani. When he's not writing, reading, or editing, he plays drums for the southern-tinged hard rock band The Diablo Red, whose debut album, Rojos, was released in late 2005. Diablo's second album, A Statue of Mary with Bullhorns, was released in March 2006.
Douglas Smith is a Toronto science fiction writer whose stories have appeared in over sixty professional magazines and anthologies in twenty-six countries and twenty-one languages, including Interzone, The Third Alternative, Best New Horror, Baen's Universe, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, Cicada, On Spec, Oceans of the Mind, and Prairie Fire, as well as anthologies from Penguin/Roc, DAW, and others. Doug was a John W. Campbell Award finalist for best new writer in 2001 and has twice won the Canadian Aurora Award for short fiction. He is currently completing his first novel based on his award-winning short story, "Spirit Dance." His web site can be found at www.smithwriter.com.
Julia Vryheid’s first mystery book, Killed by Common Sense, was published by Erica House, and she has written numerous articles for Crime Scene. She studied creative writing at the University of Toronto and completed a residency program in mystery writing at the Banff School of Fine Arts. Born in the Netherlands, Julia grew up in Alberta, now lives in Toronto and is presently working as a Senior Policy Advisor for the provincial government.
For more information about Lambton County, visit www.lambtononline.ca
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Contact:
Jeffrey Allan Beeler or Ellen Dark
Reference Librarians
Sarnia Branch, Lambton County Library
124 Christina Street South
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada N7T 8E1
Telephone: (519) 337-3291
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