Our Night Out on April 28

Another successful evening with our guests took place at the Tranzac on April 28 and we would sincerely like to thank all who attended to make it such a fun and interesting evening.

Founders and guests enjoy the ambience at the Tranzac.

Back row left to right:  Lynda Simmons, guest; Lisa De Nikolits, guest; Melodie Campbell, guest; Ann Lethbridge, founder; Mary Sullivan, founder.

Front row left to right: Margaret Moore, founder; Kate Bridges, founder.






Here we have Lisa De Nikolits reading from:

 The Witchdoctor's Bones

Lynda Simmons delighted us with extracts from:

 Island Girl

Melodie Campbell read from:

 The Goddaughter's Revenge

Our open mic session rounded out our evening after the break.


Rebecaa Simkin read from her fantasy, The Soldier's Heart (left)


Joan O'Callaghan read from her supernatural mystery, For Elise (right)






Madeleine Harris-Callway read from her thriller Windigo Fire (left)

While Ann Dulhanty read from her science fiction book Green, Green, Grass of Greed



Our final offering for the night was from Lynne Murphy reading from a mystery entitled  Thirteen.

Join us for the Next Night Out With Authors on April 28

April 28 2014 Night Out With Authors

At the Transac Club, 

292 Brunswick Ave. 

Toronto, Ontario

Featuring

  Melodie Campbell reading from THE GODDAUGHTER'S REVENGE

Lynda Simmons reading from  ISLAND GIRL 

Lisa de Nikolits reading from THE WITCHDOCTOR'S BONES

As well as open Mic for authors. 

What is Open Mic for Authors ~ see sidebar for details

More About Melodie Campbell 

Winner of  nine awards, Melodie Campbell achieved a personal best when Library Digest compared her to Janet Evanovich.  

Melodie got her start writing comedy. In 1999, she opened the Canadian Humour Conference.  She has over 200 publications including 100 comedy credits, 40 short stories and 7 novels. She has won 9 awards for fiction, and has been a finalist twice for the Derringer Awards (US) and twice for the Arthur Ellis Award (Canada).  It didn’t  start that way.  

Mel has a commerce degree from Queen’s, but it didn’t take well.  She has been a bank manager, college instructor, marketing director, comedy writer, and possibly the worst runway model ever.  

Today, Melodie is the Executive Director of Crime Writers of Canada. Her Goddaughter mob caper  series has been called “Hilarious” by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.  Her humour column ‘Bad Girl’ appears in the satirical magazine, The Sage; Canada’s Best Source of Misleading News and Opinion.    

Melodie was invited into the Toronto Press Club in1994.  There is no truth to the rumour that she once did a somersault off the Press Club billiard table.

                                      www.melodiecampbell.com 

                                      Mcampbell50@cogeco.ca 

More About Lynda Simmons

Lynda Simmons is a writer by day, college instructor by night and a late sleeper on weekends. She grew up in Toronto reading Greek mythology, bringing home stray cats and making up stories about bodies in the basement. From an early age, her family knew she would either end up as a writer or the old lady with a hundred cats. As luck would have it, she married a man with allergies so writing it was.

With two daughters to raise, Lynda and her husband moved into a lovely two storey mortgage in Burlington, a small city on the water just outside Toronto. While the girls are grown and gone, Lynda and her husband are still there. And yes, there is a cat – a beautiful, if spoiled, Birman.

When she’s not writing or teaching, Lynda gives serious thought to using the treadmill in her basement. Fortunately, she’s found that if she waits long enough, something urgent will pop up and save her - like a phone call or an e-mail or a whistling kettle. Or even that cat just looking for a little more attention!
                     http://www.lyndasimmons.com
                     https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lynda-Simmons-Author

More About Lisa de Nikolits

Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits has been a Canadian citizen since 2003. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Philosophy and has lived in the U.S.A., Australia and Britain.

Her first novel, The Hungry Mirror, won the 2011 IPPY Awards Gold Medal for Women's Issues Fiction and was long-listed for a ReLit Award. Her second novel, West of Wawa won the 2012 IPPY Silver Medal Winner for Popular Fiction and was one of Chatelaine Magazine’s four Editor's Picks. Her third novel, A Glittering Chaos, launched in Spring 2013 to reader and review acclaim, and is about murder, madness, love and poetry.
Her fourth novel, The Witchdoctor’s Bones will be launched on April 30^th, 2014 at the Supermarket, 268 Augusta Avenue, Kensington Market. 

Lisa will be reading from The Witchdoctor’s Bones, a thriller about the darkest secrets of African evil; the novel seamlessly weaves witchcraft and ancient folklore into a plot of loss, passion and intrigue and a holiday becomes a test of moral character.

All books published by Inanna Publications. All books available online and in bookstores.

                     www.lisadenikolitswriter.com

                     twitter: @lisadenikolits

                     www.facebook.com/lisa.denikolits

                     http://www.goodreads.com

                     http://pinterest.com/lisadenikolits/

There's an admission charge of $5 to cover the cost of the room. 

The event ends at approximately 9 p.m.

Although there are no meals served at the Tranzac Club, you are welcome to bring in your own.  There are several restaurants nearby with take-out options.   

Beverages are available at the venue.  All beverages, whether alcoholic or nonalcoholic, must be purchased at the Tranzac Club and the legal drinking age will be strictly enforced.

 For information about the club (including directions and parking), please click on the link on the sidebar. 

We hope to see you there! 

Our Night Out on March 24

Another successful evening where writers and readers have a chance to meet and mingle. Our featured authors were inspirational and talented. The readings were excellent. Here are just a few highlights from a fun and interesting evening.

The evening begins with a get-to-meet-you gathering of the like-minded catching up and delving deeper.

Eve Silver read from her novel Rush             There are no practice runs, no training, and no way out. Miki has only the guidance of secretive but maddeningly attractive team leader Jackson Tate, who says that the game is more than that, and that what Miki and her new teammates do now determines their survival and the survival of every other person on this planet. She laughs. He doesn't. And then the game takes a deadly and terrifying turn.

Morgan Rhodes chilled us with a scene from her book Rebel Spring.

Auranos has been conquered and the three kingdoms—Auranos, Limeros, and Paelsia—are now unwillingly united as one country called Mytica. But alluring, dangerous magic still beckons, and with it the chance to rule not just Mytica, but the world. . . .

Rio Youers teased us with the opening of Westlake Soul

Westlake dreams of a normal life—of surfing and loving again. But time is running out; Dr. Quietus is getting closer, and stronger. Can Westlake use his superbrain to recover . . . to slip his enemy’s cold embrace before it’s too late?

Our readers at Open Mic for Authors received a warm welcome and enticed us into their fictional worlds.

John Kenny (left)  read from his work The Spark. While  Joan Leacott (right) entertained us with a scene from Sight for Sore Eyes

 We were introduced to Steve Shrott's (Left) Audition for Death  Limited Artifical Intelligence is Ann Dulharty's ( Right) Sci Fi novel.

Gina Grant read from her book Black Market Shadows.

The audience then tormented our featured authors with the hard questions. They look as if they are really on the hot seat don't they? Oh and Kate the flowers were beautiful!

Here is the team with their guests, left to right,  Ann Lethbridge, Kate Bridges, Morgan Rhodes, Rio Youers, Eve Silver, Margaret Moore and Mary Sullivan

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Mark your calendars.  The next Night Out With Authors is April 28, featuring

Melody Campbell

Lynda Simmons
and back by popular demand  Open Mic for authors
Details to come.

The Next Night Out with Authors is March 24

 at the Tranzac Club.

Featuring

MORGAN RHODES reading from REBEL SPRING.

* *

RIO YOUERS reading from WESTLAKE SOUL.

EVE SILVER reading from RUSH.

as well as

Open Mic for Authors

What is Open Mic for Writers?  See the sidebar for more info.

Doors open 6:30, readings start 7:15

 More about MORGAN RHODES

Morgan Rhodes is the New York Times bestselling author of Falling Kingdoms, the first in a high fantasy series for Penguin's Razorbill imprint that has been called "Game of Thrones for teens." Its sequel, Rebel Spring, released in December, and continues the story of two princesses, a prince, and a rebel whose lives begin to intertwine in a time of war and magic. As national bestselling author Michelle Rowen, she's written more than two dozen paranormal novels for both adults and young adults. With two very diverse books releasing in 2014 -- the blood-drenched epic third book in the Falling Kingdoms series, and the third book in her Immortality Bites cozy mystery series, From Fear to Eternity -- she is happy to answer to either Morgan or Michelle. Learn more about either of her personalities at michellerowen.com or morganrhodes.net.

Website: www.morganrhodes.net

Twitter:  @MorganRhodesYA

Facebook.com/morganrhodesbooks

Website:  www.michellerowen.com

Twitter:  @MichelleRowen

Facebook.com/michellerowenbooks

 
More about RIO YOUERS:

Rio Youers is the British Fantasy Award–nominated author of End Times and Old Man Scratch. His short fiction has been published by, among others, St. Martin’s Griffin, HarperCollins, and Cemetery Dance. His latest novel, Westlake Soul, was recently nominated for Canada’s prestigious Sunburst Award, and has been optioned for movie by Hollywood producer, Stephen Susco. Rio lives in southwestern Ontario with his wife, Emily, and their daughter, Lily Maye.

Website: www.rioyouers.com

Twitter:  @Rio_Youers

 More about EVE SILVER 
 

National bestselling author Eve Silver has been praised for her “edgy, steamy, action-packed” books, darkly sexy heroes and take-charge heroines. Her work has been listed as a 2013 American Bookseller’s Association Best Book for Children and a Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books for Kids and Teens. She has garnered starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Quill and Quire, two RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Awards, Library Journal’s Best Genre Fiction Award, and she was nominated for the Romance Writers of America® RITA® Award. RUSH, the first book in Eve’s new teen series, is available now. Eve lives with her husband, two sons, an energetic Airedale terrier and an exuberant border collie/shepherd.

Website: www.evesilver.net

Twitter: @Eve_Silver

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/evesilverbooks

There's an admission charge of $5 to cover the cost of the room.  

The event ends at approximately 9 p.m.

 

Although there are no meals served at the Tranzac Club, you are welcome to bring in your own.  There are several restaurants nearby with take-out options.   

Beverages are available at the venue.  All beverages, whether alcoholic or nonalcoholic, must be purchased at the Tranzac Club and the legal drinking age will be strictly enforced.

 For information about the club (including directions and parking), please click on the link on the sidebar. 

We hope to see you there! 

**Author photo credit: Shanon Fujioka.

Please join us!

Our next Night Out with Authors is

 March 24

 at the Tranzac Club.

Doors open 6:30, readings start 7:15.

Featuring

EVE SILVER reading from RUSH.













MORGAN RHODES reading from REBEL SPRING.




* *

RIO YOUERS reading from WESTLAKE SOUL.

As well as

Open Mic for Authors

What is Open Mic for Writers?  See the sidebar for more info.

 
More about EVE SILVER 
 

National bestselling author Eve Silver has been praised for her “edgy, steamy, action-packed” books, darkly sexy heroes and take-charge heroines. Her work has been listed as a 2013 American Bookseller’s Association Best Book for Children and a Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books for Kids and Teens. She has garnered starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Quill and Quire, two RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Awards, Library Journal’s Best Genre Fiction Award, and she was nominated for the Romance Writers of America® RITA® Award. RUSH, the first book in Eve’s new teen series, is available now. Eve lives with her husband, two sons, an energetic Airedale terrier and an exuberant border collie/shepherd.

Website: www.evesilver.net

Twitter: @Eve_Silver

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/evesilverbooks

 More about MORGAN RHODES

Morgan Rhodes is the New York Times bestselling author of Falling Kingdoms, the first in a high fantasy series for Penguin's Razorbill imprint that has been called "Game of Thrones for teens." Its sequel, Rebel Spring, released in December, and continues the story of two princesses, a prince, and a rebel whose lives begin to intertwine in a time of war and magic. As national bestselling author Michelle Rowen, she's written more than two dozen paranormal novels for both adults and young adults. With two very diverse books releasing in 2014 -- the blood-drenched epic third book in the Falling Kingdoms series, and the third book in her Immortality Bites cozy mystery series, From Fear to Eternity -- she is happy to answer to either Morgan or Michelle. Learn more about either of her personalities at michellerowen.com or morganrhodes.net.

Website: www.morganrhodes.net

Twitter:  @MorganRhodesYA

Facebook.com/morganrhodesbooks

Website:  www.michellerowen.com

Twitter:  @MichelleRowen

Facebook.com/michellerowenbooks

More about RIO YOUERS:

Rio Youers is the British Fantasy Award–nominated author of End Times and Old Man Scratch. His short fiction has been published by, among others, St. Martin’s Griffin, HarperCollins, and Cemetery Dance. His latest novel, Westlake Soul, was recently nominated for Canada’s prestigious Sunburst Award, and has been optioned for movie by Hollywood producer, Stephen Susco. Rio lives in southwestern Ontario with his wife, Emily, and their daughter, Lily Maye.

Website: www.rioyouers.com

Twitter:  @Rio_Youers

There's an admission charge of $5 to cover the cost of the room.  

The event ends at approximately 9 p.m.

 

Although there are no meals served at the Tranzac Club, you are welcome to bring in your own.  There are several restaurants nearby with take-out options.   

Beverages are available at the venue.  All beverages, whether alcoholic or nonalcoholic, must be purchased at the Tranzac Club and the legal drinking age will be strictly enforced.

 For information about the club (including directions and parking), please click on the link on the sidebar. 

We hope to see you there! 

**Author photo credit: Shanon Fujioka.

Upcoming Night Out with Authors Events

Sick of winter?  Looking forward to spring?  So are we, with more Night Out with Author events.


March 24, 2014 - featuring

Eve Silver

Morgan Rhodes  aka  Michelle Rowen

Rio Youers 

Open Mic for Authors *

at the Tranzac Club

APRIL 28, 2014 - featuring

Melodie Campbell

Lynda Simmons  

Open Mic for Authors *

at the Tranzac Club

Doors open at 6:30, readings commence at 7:15, evening ends approximately 9 pm.  For information about the club (including directions and parking), please click on the link on the sidebar.  

*Wondering what Open Mic for Authors is?  Clink on the link on the sidebar.

Our Night Out On January 20th

Gathering at the Tranzac Club

   

 

Mark Leslie reads his darkly humourous snowman story from ONE HAND SCREAMING.

 

 

Kate Maddison reads from her YA novel, THE INCREDIBLE CHARLOTTE SYCAMORE.

Margaret Moore, Mark and Kate at the Tranzac bar.

Margaret read from her upcoming historical romance, CASTLE OF THE WOLF.

Open Mic for Writers

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Two participants were

 

Gina Grant reading from THE RELUCTANT REAPER.

 

and Steve Shrott reading from AUDITION FOR DEATH.

The next Night Out With Authors event is 

March 24

featuring

Eve Silver

Morgan Rhodes aka Michelle Rowen

Rio Youers

and

Open Mic for Writers
(for details on how to participate, click on link on the sidebar)

Again, the venue will be the Tranzac Club.  

Doors open at 6:30, readings commence at 7:15, evening ends approximately 9 pm.  For information about the club (including directions and parking), please click on the link on the sidebar.

Another wonderful time!

Not even the frigid temperatures could put a damper on a fun time at the Tranzac Club on Jan. 20!  Thanks to everyone who braved the cold and joined us.

Not only were there readings by Mark Leslie, Kate Maddison and Margaret Moore, as well as a Q &A,  six people did short readings as part of the Open Mic for Writers. This will likely remain a permanent part of Night Out With Authors.  (Details on how to participate in Open Mic can be found by clicking on the link on the sidebar.)

The next Night Out With Authors event is 

March 24

featuring

Eve Silver

Morgan Rhodes aka Michelle Rowen

and 

Rio Youers.

Again, the venue will be the Tranzac Club.  

Doors open at 6:30, readings commence at 7:15, evening ends approximately 9 pm.  For information about the club (including directions and parking), please click on the link on the sidebar.