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As of this morning, I’ve officially tapped out of the Debris, Pauls, and Pillow Tour, where I read in a bunch of towns around Ontario with Jess Taylor (Pauls – BookThug), and Andrew Battershill (Pillow – Coach House Books). I started it off with Jess on the 15th of September, in Guelph, and then read with Jess and Andrew in Hamilton, London, Kingston, and Ottawa.

Big thanks to the following bookstores/venues that had us over, and the people who helped out at each stop…

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September 15th – The Bookshelf – Guelph (especially Andrew Hood)

September 20th – Epic Books – Hamilton (owner, Jaime Krakowski, and staff)

September 22nd – London Public Library, Landon Branch – London (librarian, Carolyn Doyle)

September 28th – Novel Idea – Kingston (manager, Oscar Malan, and their staff)

September 29th – Octopus Books – Ottawa

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Without those folks we’d have been reading on the corner for nickels. Or just at home, alone, in our respective hobbit holes.

We also would not have been able to do any of this without great enthusiasm and support, and a lot of work, from all of our publishers. Huge thanks to my publisher, Biblioasis, for helping a guy with the credit of a small child stay in hotels and get on trains, that includes Meghan Desjardins, Andrew Kovacevic, Grant Munroe, and head honcho Dan Wells. I also want to thank the folks at Coach House, including Alana Wilcox and Veronica Simmonds, and, especially Hazel Millar at BookThug, who really put in a lot of work to coordinate everything. I sort of just jumped into this tour and did my part, but all of those people did the planning and booking, and I appreciate that very much.

I’ve got one last event this fall. I’ll be at the Wild Writers Literary Festival in Waterloo next weekend (November 6th to 8th) as part of a panel called Fiction: Pushing Boundaries. With Rhonda Douglas, Kevin Hardcastle, Russell Smith, and Kathleen Winter, and moderated by K.D. Miller. That one takes place on the Saturday at 1:30pm. Come by and watch me be weird amongst a bunch of way more established and experienced authors. Probably it’ll change your life. I don’t know…

Thanks, finally, to Jess Taylor and Andrew Battershill, who put up with me during these past few weeks, and who are off to Montreal to read today. While I go back to Toronto to watch Halloween movies and transcribe things. Good luck to you my friends. You do not suck at writing, nor are you terrible human beings. Godspeed.

Hardcastle

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Starting today, in Guelph, I’ll be going on a little mini-tour with Jess Taylor (author of Pauls, BookThug) and Andrew Battershill (author of Pillow, with Coach House Books). Me and Jess are going to be reading tonight, and then the three of us will be at all of the other towns together. Here is what they all are, and you can click on whichever line for event information:

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• The Bookshelf presents an evening with Kevin Hardcastle, author of Debris (Biblioasis) & Jess Taylor, author of Pauls (BookThug) – Guelph, Ontario – October 15th
• Reading at Epic Books – Hamilton, Ontario – October 20th
• Reading at the London Public Library – Landon Branch – London, Ontario – October 22nd
• Reading at Novel Idea – Kingston, Ontario – October 28th
• Reading at Octopus Books  – Ottawa, Ontario – October 29th

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If any of that interests anybody, or if you know anybody in those towns who like readings and books about hillbilly violence and mayhem, Pauls, Pillows, and some feelings, please spread the word if you could. It would be much appreciated by all us writers and our publishers.

I’ll also be doing a reading in Toronto, at the Pivot Reading Series, on October 21st, with George Murray & Meira Cook. That should be a good one, and I hope to see the regular weirdos and hopefully some irregular weirdos there as well.

Any other reading/events that I’m at will get posted soon as I can. Otherwise, as always, thanks for listening to my ravings and reading my work.

Cheers.

Hardcastle

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As of September 29th, 2015, my short story collection Debris, published by Biblioasis, is officially on wide release in Canada.

We launched the hell out of the book a few weeks ago, thanks to all the fine people who came out to the Biblioasis fall list launches in Montreal, Windsor, and especially Toronto. It has also been in stores a little while, and I know some folks have been buying it up in various places. That does me a lot of good to hear.

If you’d like to buy a copy of Debris directly from Biblioasis, you can go ahead and click this whole line and you will get to where you need to go. I know that some US friends have been asking, and, while February 9th is the proper US release date, they can order it early if they go direct.

Otherwise, the book has been spotted in stores all over Canada, and I appreciate everyone who posted on the internet about it as they bought the book or just looked at it or did those things and also stuck it in with Twilight…

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I’m going on a little mini-tour, starting mid-October, with stops in Guelph, Hamilton, London, Kingston, and Ottawa. That can all be found in my events page on this site, along with upcoming Toronto readings and whatnot. Go to any or all of these if you like. There will almost always be other writers reading at them if you don’t like the cut of my jib.

Thanks again for all the support over the past while. I will report anything new as it shows up. More to come…

Cheers,

Hardcastle