Nina Munteanu Teaching in Nova Scotia

nina-waterfrontNina Munteanu, author of the Darwin duology, will be in Nova Scotia March 2011, teaching several writing workshops in Halifax and the South Shore.
She will also be speaking in several Halifax schools and will be doing readings at libraries. See her website for locations.

Nina will be signing her latest book Angel of Chaos at several Halifax bookstores, locations to be announced shortly on her website.
Check Nina’s website, http://www.ninamunteanu.com/, for detailed information on workshops that include location, date, time & duration, and cost. Reference materials include her fiction writing textnook “The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now!”.
Courses include:

•“How to Write and Publish Science Fiction” on March 12 (through the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia)

•“The Writer’s Toolkit” on March 19 (through the Tantallon Public Library)

•“Writing the Memoir: from Idea to Research to Storytelling” date TBA (through South Shore Public Libraries)

•“10 Commandments of Fiction Writing” date TBA (through South Shore Public Libraries)

Current and forthcoming works: December 2010 and January 2011

Arthur Slade Wins $25,000 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award

HBCANArthur Slade of Saskatoon has won the 2010 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for his book The Hunchback Assignments.

“A thrilling tale of an unusual and talented young man.” Publisher’s Weekly

“A full-steam-ahead spy thriller, complete with derring-do, a dastardly villain, and a suitably complex plot.” Quill & Quire starred review.

“The protagonists are likable, the villains are chilling, and the story is action packed.” School Library Journal

No stranger to the limelight, Arthur Slade won the 2001 Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature for his book Dust.

http://www.arthurslade.com
http://www.hunchbackassignments.com

Forthcoming Works by SF Canada Members, November 2010

Forthcoming in October 2010 (plus some September)

Quite a few releases, through the rest of September and into October …

VCON 35, ongoing in Vancouver as I write, hosted a multi-book launch Friday (October 1) evening, celebrating new and recent releases.