Category Archives: Event

New Book on the Block

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A bullied boy, Julien, finds a glove. And everything changes. For the better?

The cover – Le gant (The glove).

My 17th novel and a bad cold (or flu) came together this week!

Summary: A bullied teenager, Julien, finds a solitary glove. Everything changes. For the better?  A story about the subtle roots of power and  corruption, in a mid-high school setting.

So no complicated comic today. Yesterday snapshot: author down with cold and some guilt from not even being able to read.

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Our bicolor lady cat has very irregular white markings on her fur. And she always nestles where I would put my legs!

My Resolution Run

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Yes, we do watch the X-Files !

The Resolution Run is an annual event by organized by the Running Room. They hold bi-weekly runs open to every one, and in winter it is better to run in a group, because of the danger of falling on ice.

There was not much snow at the 2015 RR, but half-melted, darkened snowpacks were abundant. Despite what the comic may let you think, there were crews presents, cheering us at various points on the 5-km route, so no “dark” places. 

It was a good run with the moon peeking through the branches, ominous and magnificent.

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Winter Gardening

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Yes, a heat record for the Toronto area! The winter solstice has changed…

A glass of water at a signing table…

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Thanks to my fellow colleague Yves Bourgelas for the anecdote!

Those mishaps happen, from time to time, when the place is packed full.

And my calendar is packed, hence the delay!

Book Blunder – Part II

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A signed book is a treasure.  I buy a lot of books from my fellows SF writers!

(This blunder really happened: I’m known for my absent-mindedness, but no book was harmed nor thrown on the floor in the telling of this event.)

FYI: Yves Meynard is also a Tor Books published author.

Book Blunder

 

What happens at the end of a long day!

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This slight mishap happened at the end of a long day…

My colleagues are respected writers, Philippe-Aubert Côté wrote Le Jeu du Demiurge, and Yves Meynard has published The Book of Knights  and Chrysanthe at Tor Books.

My own science-fiction book, L’Écologie d’Odi, and my 16th novel, received an enthusiastic review.  It is the first time that I write a story in a shared universe.

My 16th novel

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in French, from  Porte-Bonheur

 

More deadlines piling up…

Deadlines still piling up

One bookfair coming and the launch of my 16th novel… don’t leave a lot of free time to draw signing table gags!

Leaves and deadlines falling along…

Leaves and deadlines fallling

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New engagements and events conspired to keep me from adding new pages on this blog. This fall had deadlines falling along with the leaves.

More to come, for I will be signing my new science fiction novel at the Montréal Bookfair.

Political Musings : What Do I Want to Conserve?

Thinking about our values, and which ones do we want to conserve?

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Personal musings at the end of a long election  campaign.

What do I want to conserve?

Our environment, because without an hospitable planet, there’s no viable economy!

Social diversity as much as biological, guaranteeing humanity’s long-term survival.

Sciences and education, because we will need all the available heads to solve issues born from the past, to face the challenges ahead. (No, there are no piranhas in the St. Lawrence River, but other exotic creepers such as Asian carp threaten these places.)

Public support for the artists, magazines and cultural organizations, for without creativity, without imagination, where are we going?

I need a cultural diffuser as CBC-RadioCanada because no eventual “official organ of the Party” will replace it  A mari usque ad mare. (As a Franco-Ontarian, the CBC is our own French language buoy! )

I am a staunch conservative for human dignity, honesty, and the liberty for women to choose their own path in life.

I want to get back to what is, for me, the original meaning of the word “religion“, reli-connected + ion-all, “to connect all”: building bridges between people, multiplying loaves of bread instead of fences.