Word On The Street

James and Ken arrived this morning for a week-long stay of writing and food and mischief-making of some kind or another.  And it feels nice to have their energy in the house.  Stirs up the writing pot and hopefully we will all leave this week with a thick sheath of newly written pages and full of ideas. 

Word on The Street is tomorrow.  This takes place in many of the major cities through Canada and is open to the public and is absolutely free.  So, take advantage of this opportunity and check out if your city is having Word on The Street and if so, go on down and listen to wonderful writers and people in the literary world, read and talk about their work. 

You don’t need tickets or permission.  Just walk into any tent that interests you and sit down and listen and ask questions and most of all enjoy!  Or if you want to browse and not get committed to listening to an author, do what I do, and lurk outside the tent, close enough to see if it’s something that interests me, and if it is, then I sidle up and plop down in a seat, and if I’m not enthralled then I drift on to the next tent and eavesdrop for a while.  Although, don’t take too long in deciding, because each author has only about 20 minutes and then it’s on to the next one.

(And…um…if any author sees me stand outside their tent for a while and then drift on, it might actually be because I have to leave to get ready for my own reading, and not because I’m bored.)

Anyway, I’ll be reading from my new book, First Time, at Library Square in downtown Vancouver at the Canada Writes Tent at 12:00 sharp.  It is over in a blink of an eye, so those of you planning on attending, don’t be late. 

See you there! xo

Posted by Meg Tilly on Saturday, September 27, 2008 in Chewing the Fat