A few months after I started this blog, I discovered that it’s easier to write about book launches than to write about books.
To write about books, you've got to read them. Reading requires time and patience. I don’t have either.
Moreover, writing about the books is fraught with awkward situations, especially when you know the writers.
Attending book launches and writing about them is easier. Of course, I realise that nobody’s fooled into believing that I read all the books I write about.
The launch of Dawn Promislow’s Jewels & Other Stories was just about the most sensational book launches I’ve attended in a long time.
Type Books at Queen Street W, the venue for the event, was packed.
- Nurjehan Aziz was there. Aziz’s TSAR Publications has published Dawn’s book.
- My mentor MG Vassanji was there. It’s always an honour to meet and talk to him.
- Most my writer friends were there – Yoko Morgenstern, Joyce Wayne, Michael Fraser, and Leslie Shimotakahara.
- Antanas Sileika of Humber School for Writers and Olive Senior, poet, writer and Dawn’s mentor were there, too, along with probably many others whom I don't know.
To read Dawn’s interview on Open Book Toronto click here: Dawn's Interview.
I hope everyone who was there bought a copy of the book.
For those who couldn’t attend or couldn’t buy, here’s your chance to do so. Click on this link: Jewels & Other Stories.
