Event photos: Emma Forrest, James Bartleman, and Joy Fielding at Authors at Harbourfront

On Feb. 24, Emma Forrest, James Bartleman, and Joy Fielding took to the stage (not all at once) at Toronto’s Authors at Harbourfront series to read from their new books. (Photos courtesy of Random House of Canada)

Forrest reading from her memoir Your Voice in My Head.

James Bartleman reading from his first novel, As Long as the Rivers Flow.

Fielding, Bartleman, and Forrest.

Event photos: Freedom to Read Week in Calgary

Last night author John Reilly spoke to a sold-out crowd for Freedom to Read Week in downtown Calgary. The former provincial court judge is the author of Bad Medicine: A Judge’s Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community published by Rocky Mountain Books. The event was sponsored by The Writers Guild of Alberta and WordFest.

WordFest’s new director, Jo Steffens, and Mary Kapusta, the festival’s marketing manager.

Don Gorman, publisher of Rocky Mountain Books, with event host Russell Bowers from CBC Radio, and Judge Reilly.

Samantha Warwick, author and southern Alberta program coordinator for the Writers Guild of Alberta.

Event photos: This Child, Every Child launch with ONEXONE

On Family Literacy Day (Jan. 27), Kids Can Press hosted a special breakfast book launch for David J. Smith and Shelagh Armstrong’s picture book This Child, Every Child at its new home in the Corus Quay building on Toronto’s waterfront. The event was attended by representatives of the ONEXONE foundation, which has partnered with Kids Can, and will use 50 per cent of the profits from the book to send children’s books to earthquake-ravaged Haiti. (Photos courtesy of Kids Can Press)

ONEXONE founder Joelle Berdugo Adler with Lisa Lyons, president of Kids Can Press, and Shelagh Armstrong, illustrator of This Child, Every Child.

Open Book Toronto’s Amy Logan Holmes, acting Deputy Minister of Tourism and Culture Steven Davidson, and Kristine Murphy and Janet Hawkins from the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

Way to Display! C’est Noël, David! at Indigo in Montreal

That’s right: it’s the holiday edition of Way to Display!, with a too-cool-for-yule display for C’est Noël, David! (Scholastic Canada), the French edition of David Shannon’s It’s Christmas, David!, at the Indigo in downtown Montreal. (Photo courtesy of Scholastic Canada)

Event photos: Vancouver gets steampunk’d by Scott Westerfeld

On Nov. 24, author Scott Westerfeld was in Vancouver to promote Behemoth, the second volume in his YA steampunk trilogy, Leviathan, which is illustrated by Canada’s Keith Thompson. (Photos courtesy of Simon & Schuster)

Westerfeld signing copies of his other big YA series, Uglies, at Kidsbooks.

In the evening, Westerfeld gave a reading for a number of his young fans at West Point Grey United Church.

A number of Westerfeld’s fans got into the steampunk spirit. (Cuz nothing says “punk” more than bringing your mom to a reading in a church…)

Event photo: Claudia Dey launches How to be a Bush Pilot

Claudia Dey launched her sex-advice book, How to Be a Bush Pilot (HarperCollins Canada), at Toronto’s Drake Hotel on Nov. 10. The launch featured live music and an onstage chat between Dey and author Michael Winter. Above: Dey, in a pilot’s cap, watches with amusement as Winter prepares to do something with an unpeeled banana that we are certain was entirely wholesome and hygienic. (Photo courtesy of HarperCollins Canada)

Way to Display! The Hunger Games trilogy at Vancouver Kidsbooks

The upcoming visit from author Suzanne Collins (on Nov. 2) to Vancouver Kidsbooks inspired the store to once again go all-out on its exterior, opting for an eye-catching – yet more than a little menacing – “fear the future” theme very much appropriate to Collins’ mega-selling Hunger Games trilogy. (Photo courtesy of Scholastic Canada)

[Know of a great bookstore display? Made one yourself? Take a photo and drop it in our Flickr pool or send it to nwhitlock at quillandquire.com.]

Way to Display! The Anthology of Rap at Type Books

You know what time it is: this week’s edition of Way to Display! is all about the hip hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip hip hop, you don’t stop, etc. The Queen Street West location of Type Books (T to the izz-y, P to the izz-e) has a block-rockin’ display for The Anthology of Rap, edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois (Yale University Press). Type staffer Kalpna Patel (who sometimes goes under the alias Ghostface Knitta) gets major props for putting this joint together. Can’t wait for the Anthology of Death Metal display. (Photos courtesy of Type Books)

[As part of Quillblog’s ongoing commitment to filling our site with ephemera, sundries, and both flotsam and jetsam from around the book world, we have instituted a semi-regular feature entitled Way to Display!, in which we feature striking and eye-catching window displays (or, indeed, interior displays) from bookstores across the country. If you have seen a great display (or have just made one yourself), feel free to send it our way. Dropping them in our Flickr pool is one way to get the pictures to us, or you can e-mail them directly to nwhitlock at quillandquire.com.]

Event photo: Gary Taxali’s This is Silly! at the AGO

Noted artist and illustrator Gary Taxali launched his first picture book, This is Silly! (Scholastic Canada), at Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario on Sept. 22. The crowd, a crush of well-wishers, book people, artistes, and children, spilled out into the lobby of the AGO. Above: Taxali signs a book for a young fan. (Photo by Wayne Redwood/Courtesy of Scholastic)

Event photos: Don’t Stop Believin’: The Unofficial Guide To Glee

Wednesday night’s launch for Don’t Stop Believin’: The Unofficial Guide To Glee (ECW Press) was a kavalkade of karaoke held at Toronto’s Duke of York. Above: co-authors Suzanne Gardner (a former Q&Q editorial intern) and Erin Balser musically implore each other to not stop you-know-whatin’. (Photo by Bill Gardner/Courtesy of ECW) (Video here, btw.)

Also at the DSB’! launch, House of Anansi’s Mark Luk stops believin’ in ECW president Jack David’s own gleefulness. See what I did there? (Photo courtesy of ECW)