I’m heading off to Texas at the end of this week, for family visits and a few book events. The details are on this texas poster! Join me if you’re in …
Events this week! Hamilton, Oakville, Toronto
Join us! Hamilton: reading and Q&A at MacReads, McMaster University. April 28th, 7-8:30pm, Alumni House, (formerly President’s Residence), $5 (includes light refreshments), all welcome. Books available for purchase at Titles …
Big City Small World
Did you catch it yesterday? Garvia Bailey interviewed me on Big City Small World on CBC Radio One (Toronto) this past week. I’ll try to get the audio clip and …
New podcast review by Carole Giangrande
Many thanks to Carole Giangrande for including a review of Six Metres of Pavement in her recent podcast, Words To Go. Listen here  and click on Podcast #28 and click on …
RCI // Masala Canada interview
Check out this interview with Wojtek Gwiazda from RCI // Masala Canada about Six Metres of Pavement. It begins just after the 40 minute mark.
Facing Out
I’ll be chatting with Annemarie Shrouder about my new novel In Conversation Join us in person, or watch the livestream online! In Conversation is part of Facing Out – a …
Toronto launch!
My Facebook status update at 11:24pm on March 7th was: Well! Everyone should have a night like that at least once in their life. I’ve had two of these fabulous …
Read an excerpt of Six Metres of Pavement!
An excerpt of Six Metres of Pavement is up on CommuterLit today. Check it out!
An interview with Dundurn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYx3TZAtNIU
New Inside Toronto article!
A big thanks to Erin Hatfield at Inside Toronto for doing this interview with me. Have a look!
The book trailer is up!
It was a lot of fun making this book trailer. Have a look, and pass it on!
Publishers Weekly advance review of Six Metres of Pavement
The book’s not out yet, but my first review is in! Publisher’s Weekly says: “Ismail Boxwala, an ultimately good man haunted by a horrible mistake, provides the focal point of …
Resolutions
Many of us take a moment to reflect on our lives at this time of year and set goals for self improvement. How many of you are vowing to go …
Revisions, revisions
I’ve just come through the first stage of revisions and edits with Six Metres of Pavement and I’m pleased with the recent changes. Mostly, it’s small stylistic stuff and catching …
Novel in a nutshell
YouTube and Google have a very cool and fun app that helps you create a 35 second video using 7 search terms. Here’s my 35 second rendition of Stealing Nasreen. …
The City as a Character
I love to write about Toronto. I’m not alone; Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, MG Vassanji, Margaret Atwood, Barbara Gowdy, and many others have situated their fiction in this city, often …
Six Metres of Pavement
Novel #2 has a title! After a short process of elimination, Dundurn and I have decided on “Six Metres of Pavement” as the title of my book. And we have …
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