 | Featuring
several formal local residents now working at ChiZine Publications:
Brett
Savory - Co-publisher, Editor in Chief and Bram Stoker Award winner Helen
Marshall - Managing Editor -
Laura
Marshall - Marketing Manager
Also:
Sandra
Kasturi - ChiZine Co-publisher -
Dennis
Collins - Mystery Writer -
Suzanne Church - Science Fiction, Fantasy Eric
Choi - Science Fiction Rick Bletcha - Crime Fiction
There
will be a meet and greet reception from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. There
will also be a film program in the Library Theatre. Seating is
limited; please contact the Reference Department at 519 337-3291 to
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Why Done Its? Why do we like to read and write mystery? How are American and Canadian mysteries similar or different? Rick Blechta and Dennis Collins in conversation.
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Whisper of the Heart aka Mimi wo
sumaseba
A
young girl discovers a cat riding by himself on a train, follows him, and encounters
a young boy who is determined to become a violin maker like his grandfather.
Screenplay
by Hayao Miyazaki
Rated
General for all ages
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| East Room |
All Day Anime Dealers, Episodes and Wii games |
| 11m |
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Meet and Greet Reception |
| 12m |
West Room |
Things I Wished I Knew about Writing When I Was Sixteen Rick Blechta, Suzanne Church, Dennis Collins, and Moderator Helen Marshall |
| Library Theatre |
Metropolis aka Metoroporisu
Based
on the silent film of the same name in it a boy and his private investigator
uncle must search a futuristic city inhabited by humans and robots to solve the
mystery of the origin of a robotic girl.
Directed
by Rintaro based on the story by Osamu Tezuka
Rated
Parental Guidance for Violence and is not recommended for young children
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| 1 pm |
West Room |
Meet ChiZine Publications and find out how this partially created in Sarnia organization creates and markets fiction. Moderator Sandra Kasturi, Helen Marshall, Laura Marshall and Brett Savory
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| 2 pm |
West Room |
The Weird and the Wonderful: The attraction of reading and writing
science fiction, fantasy and horror Moderator Eric Choi, Suzanne Church, Sandra Kasturi, Helen Marshall and Brett Savory
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
This
is based on the popular video game series.
A mercenary soldier comes out of seclusion and risks his life to find
the source of the disease affecting his futuristic city.
Directors:
Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue
Rated
Parental Guidance for Violence
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West Room |
Short Fiction: how to get your first story published and why do write it and why do we read it and what are some of the best examples and where can we find them? Moderator Eric Choi, Suzanne Church, Sandra Kasturi, Helen Marshall,and Brett Savory
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West Room |
Self and E-publishing: talking about the future of publishing can we or should we just go it alone and if so how? Moderator Laura Marshall, Suzanne Church, Helen Marshall, Rick Blechta and Dennis Collins
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Note: all panels run 50 minutes except the last one which can run a full hour or more as long as we are out of the room by 5:15
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Depart for Ups and Downs for Optional Group Dinner Book Early!
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Rich Blechta is a musician as well as a respected writer of crime fiction. He has successfully melded the two in his ground-breaking thrillers. Reviewers as well as readers of his seven novels have thoroughly enjoyed the results! This autumn, his eighth, The Fallen One, debuts. Set in Toronto and Paris, its focus is opera and a singer's search for the truth about her dead husband.
In June, Rick will be Master of Ceremonies for the Toronto mystery lovers convention Bloody Words. The first Monday of every month, you can catch him playing trumpet with The Advocats big band at People's Chicken in Toronto.
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Eric Choi was the first recipient of the Asimov Award for his novelette “Dedication”, which was recently reprinted in Japanese translation for The Astronaut from Wyoming and Other Stories. His other short fiction has appeared in Footprints, Northwest Passages, Space Inc., Tales from the Wonder Zone, Northern Suns, Tesseracts6, Arrowdreams, Science Fiction Age and Asimov’s. With Derwin Mak, he co-edited The Dragon and the Stars, the first anthology of speculative fiction by authors of the Chinese diaspora.
He holds a bachelors degree in engineering science and a masters degree in aerospace engineering, both from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from York University. Eric has worked on a number of space projects including the Phoenix Mars Lander, the Canadarm2 on the International Space Station, the RADARSAT-1 Earth-observation satellite and the MOPITT atmospheric science instrument on the Terra satellite. He is currently the business development manager for the Mission Development Group at the Canadian space company COM DEV. Visit his website at www.aerospacewriter.ca
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Suzanne Church Originally from Toronto, Suzanne Church lives in Kitchener, Ontario with her two teenaged sons. She writes Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror because she enjoys them all and hates to play favourites. When cornered she becomes fiercely Canadian. Her short stories have appeared in Cicada and On Spec, and in several anthologies including Chilling Tales: Evil Did I Dwell -- Lewd I Did Live and Tesseracts 13 & 14.
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Dennis Collins "When an article that I had written for a local boat club newsletter found its way into a nationally distributed magazine, I was surprised and seeing my name in the byline seduced me into the world of writing. I began by writing a murder mystery because those are the kind of books I’d read for decades. I had an idea and just started writing. The closest I had ever been to any formal training was one freshman level college class in creative writing. I don’t remember a thing about it.
Amazingly, my first book, “The Unreal McCoy” got published and even garnered many favorable reviews. Building on lessons learned in my first efforts, “Turn Left at September” was introduced a couple of years later. In November of 2011 “The First Domino” debuted. Working off of that momentum “Nightmare” appeared in April of 2012. I’m currently working on number five, “Fool’s Gold” and number six, “The Five Minute Gun.” "
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Sandra Kasturi is a poet, writer, and editor, as well as co-creator of a kids animated TV series. In 2005, she won ARC magazines annual Poem of the Year award. She is the poetry editor of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words and the Co-Publisher of ChiZine Publications. Sandra has written three poetry chapbooks and has edited the poetry anthology, The Stars As Seen from this Particular Angle of Night. Her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Prairie Fire, Contemporary Verse 2, TransVersions, On Spec, Taddle Creek, several of the Tesseracts series, 2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology, and Northern Frights 4. Her cultural essay, Divine Secrets of the Yaga Sisterhood appeared in the anthology Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Slayers, Mutants and Freaks. Sandra is a founding member of the Algonquin Square Table poetry workshop and sporadically runs her other imprint, Kelp Queen Press. She managed to snag an introduction from Neil Gaiman for her first full-length poetry collection, The Animal Bridegroom (Tightrope Books). She is represented by the Anne McDermid Agency, and is currently working on her first novel, a mythological noir. She enjoys single-malt scotch, red lipstick, and Viggo Mortensen.
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Helen Marshall Aurora-nominated poet Helen Marshall (manuscriptgal.com) is an author, editor, and self-proclaimed bibliophile. Her poetry has been published in The Chiaroscuro, Paper Crow, Abyss & Apex and the long-running Tesseracts anthology series. In 2011, she released a poetry chapbook entitled Skeleton Leaves from Kelp Queen Press that was jury-selected for the Preliminary Ballot of the Bram Stoker Award and nominated for a Rhysling Award. Her collection of short fiction Hair Side, Flesh Side will be released from ChiZine Publications in November, 2012.
Currently, she is pursuing a Ph. D in medieval studies at the University of Toronto, for which she spends a great deal of her time staring at fourteenth-century manuscripts. Unwisely. When you look into a book, who knows what might be looking back.
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Laura Marshall is the Marketing Director for ChiZine Publications (CZP) and Co-Chair for the 2012 Toronto SpecFic Colloquium. Though not a writer herself, she has spent much of her life supporting and herding literary types through her work for organizations such as the Chiaroscuro Reading Series, Toronto SpecFic Colloquium, Word on the Street and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She has been enthusiastically marketing books for CZP since 2010.
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Brett Alexander Savory is the Bram Stoker Award-winning Editor-in-Chief of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, Co-publisher of the World Fantasy Award-nominated ChiZine Publications, has had over 50 short stories published, and has written two novels. He is now at work on his third novel, Lake of Spaces, Wood of Nothing. He occasionally writes reviews for The National Post and The Globe and Mail. He lives in Toronto with his wife, writer/editor/publisher Sandra Kasturi.
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