News & Events
Things Go Flying has been shortlisted for the 2009 Sunburst Award! Click here to see more about the prize and the other shortlisted titles.
Brazilian rights to Things Go Flying have been sold to Saraiva Livreiros Editores!
Reviews
“enormously appealing…” Quill & Quire
“Hilarious, fast-paced and irreverent…a continual giggle…” Owen Sound Sun Times
“Lapeña’s touch is sure, her labours invisible…Family is strange. Lapeña taps into its mix of the familiar and the unfathomable, ramping up the human skirmishes with a guerilla foray into the question of evil…” The Globe and Mail
“a first novel worthy of attention…” The Vancouver Sun
Coming Appearances
Stay tuned…
Past Events
Reading with Lawrence Hill and Janice Kulyk Keefer at the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, Sunday, Sept. 7. Click here for details.
Frog Hollow Books, Halifax NS, Wednesday, August 20.
The Box of Delights Bookshop, Wolfville NS, Tuesday, August 19.
Pictou Public Library, Pictou NS, Thursday, August 14.
The Humber School for Writers Summer Workshop. Panel of newly published writers, Saturday, July 12. With Ian Colford, Evidence, Porcupine’s Quill; Francesca Piredda, Bambina, Porcupine’s Quill; Anthony De Sa, Barnacle Love, Doubleday, and Steve Skurka, Tilted: The Trial of Conrad Black, Dundurn.
Fictionistas
The Fictionistas are smart, savvy women writers from a number of small Canadian presses who do reading events together.
In Toronto at the Victory Cafe, 581 Markham street, Thursday, June 19/08.
Prince Edward County Authors Festival, Picton, Saturday, June 21/08. Panel with John Degen and Michael Riordan, moderated by Marnie Woodrow, in the morning, and reading from Things Go Flying in the afternoon. All held at the beautiful Books & Company store in Picton.