(UROC) United Readers of Cawthra
Thursday October 22, 2-3 PM
Cawthra Park Secondary School
Jeffrey reads from The Honey Locust and Death in Key West as part of the ninth annual literacy week.

National Ethnic Press &
Media Council of Canada
Monday October 26, 2009 5-7:30 PM
Jeffrey is a guest of Lilac Cana and the Honourable
David C Onley, Lt. Governor of Ontario at this
prestigious awards dinner.

BOOK LAUNCH
Monday November 2, 2009 7 PM
Nicholas Hoare Books, 45 Front St, Toronto
Official launch of The Honey Locust (Cormorant),

Writers' Trust Gala Dinner
Thursday November 5th, 2009 7:30 PM
The Four Seasons Hotel, Toronto
Jeffrey is a special guest of the Writers' Trust for this prestigious event.

ARS AUDET
Friday November 6th, 2009 7:30 PM
Berkeley Church, 315 Queen St East
Jeffrey and soprano Lilac Cana will perform four of Jeffrey's songs at the aids charity fundraiser..

October 2009

My fourth book, The Honey Locust, is finally out. After years of labouring on this story of a Canadian war journalist whose work takes her to the Bosnian War, I'm happy to say it's finished and that I'm very proud of it. It's also a beautiful looking book, and for that I have to thank highly talented cover artist Angel Guerra.

It's not that unusual for a writer to have two books out in one year, but it is unusual for one of them to be a comic mystery and the other to be a literary work. For that I have to thank publisher Marc Côté of Cormorant Books, who willingly took the risk.

The Honey Locust's launch will be next month, Nov 2, 7-9 PM, at Nicholas Hoare Bookstore in Toronto. Please join me then.

Find September's Intro Here


"Ah! The glamour, the fame and the glories. Keep them, please and just send me some money."

BOOKENDS

Here is my Bookends interview with Justine Lewkowic, taped last month at Sleuth of Baker Street, Toronto's crime specialty bookstore. I felt right at home among the thousands of mystery titles and Sherlock Holmes memorabilia.

Justine was fun, insightful and probing in her questions, and the occasional curve ball she threw at me, as we discussed my newest book, a literary thriller entitled Lake On The Mountain (Dundurn Press), which takes place jointly in Toronto and Ontario's Prince Edward County.

While it's not hard for me to talk about the writing process, I don't often get asked about my personal life in relation to where the work comes from. Like many writers, I tend to disappear behind my writing and my characters, so readers often assume they are one and the same. Not so. In this case, I welcomed the opportunity to be candid on topics that other interviewers might shy away from.

Among other things, Justine and I discussed sources of inspiration, anger management therapy, honesty, sex and sexuality, and growing up gay in Sudbury (my hometown.)

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