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» Planning for the fall launch of The Year of the Flood and helping to create the book’s interactive website which will launch in mid-August. Both website and book launch will include fundraising elements for several environmental organizations. Twenty of the launch events will be staged readings, with three voices, narrator, and singing groups – music by composer and singer Orville Stoeber, who has also recorded a CD.

This news just in: Bishop Richard Holloway will read the character Adam One in Edinburgh; Diana Quick will be Toby in London, where Irina Brown will direct and Susan Coyne will read Toby in Toronto, where Alisa Palmer will direct. More details will appear on The Year of the Flood website.

 
»  Learning how to Twitter, or is it Tweet? I am supposed to do this on the tour. I am also supposed to Blog.
 
»  Arts funding: check out Canadian Conference of the Arts, the Canadian Opera Company, and the CBC.
 
»  Species Extinction: Visit World Wildlife Fund, BirdLife International, Panthera, and the Pelee Island Bird Observatory to learn more.
 
»   My summer gardening. I go to marjorieharris.com and frugalistagardener.com for ideas.

 

 

 
Recently

Recently: 
New website launched forThe Year of the Flood. Visit www.yearoftheflood.co
m for complete international tour schedule and information. The tour begins August 30 at the Edinburgh Festival, and continues on through the UK, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, Austria, and the United States.

New printings of Oryx and Crake from Anchor in the US, Vintage in Canada – look for the strange green eyes – and Virago in the UK – look for the strange green rabbit – have appeared.

September 8: 
The Year of the Flood on sale in Canada. September 22 in the United States. 

September 27: 

Word on the Street - I will sign from Toronto to Halifax and also to Vancouver, via LongPen™. I’ll also be in Kitchener on September 26 attending a sister Word on the Street event.

September 29 -
October 2:
Visiting Calgary and Vancouver. Promotional events for The Year of the Flood partnered with Nature Canada .