Epistles from the Road--ChiSeries in Toronto

Great, great night reading at the Round Venue with the tremendously talented Ian Rogers and Sally McBride



while getting just a taste of the remarkable speculative fiction scene bubbling around Toronto and environs just now. Matzoh balls, corned beef, and a Nigel Kneale/Mordecai Richler/untranslated spooky French Canadians discussion with the Tribunal (Peter Halasz and Bob Knowlton) at Caplansky's (where they "kick it old Schul") beforehand. Then a warm, laughing, spook-filled night in the easy company of gifted, welcoming, fascinating people like Richard Gavin, Michael Rowe, Gemma Files, Michael Kelly and Carolyn Kelly, David Nickle, Ian and Kathryn Verlhurst-Rogers, Sean Moreland, Dominik Parisien (who needs to get well), Sandra Kasturi and Brett Savory of Chizine...



it was so fun and so lively, I swear I saw Simon Strantzas smile. Twice. (If I left anyone out, please forgive me. A little bleary and buzzing with it all this morning.) Quite a thing you have going on here, folks. You should treasure it. Thanks for letting me be part of it.