January '17 update

A lovely honour! My novel All-Day Breakfast has been shortlisted for the 2017 Re-Lit Award, given to best new work from independent Canadian publishers. Many other terrific shortlistees!

My dear pal Alix Hawley has published a timely, heartbreaking piece in Macleans; so worth your time.

I will be at the Penticton Sci-Fi/Comicon (more specific name still to come) at the Penticton Lakeside Hotel, 10 am-5 pm on July 8. Yes, here in Penticton and first of its kind.

I'll finish the first draft of a new novel sometime this spring! I wrote it down so now it has to happen.


(Top: Penticton Farmers Market, summer 2016 thereabouts.)

August update

I'm working on a new book, thanks largely to the hammering intensity of my novel-workshopping colleagues Corinna Chong and Alix Hawley. If a first draft's finished by the end of summer I'll put up a flashy, celebratory post; if not my face is still pressed to the keyboard.

My first work for comic books! Though not writing a comic. A raucous text story will appear in the next volume of Ed Brisson's The Violent.

Most important right here right now: The Spoke Literary Festival. Start writing wheels rolling or get a leg up on current work, through four intensive workshops over the August 20/21 weekend in Vernon BC. Any reason not to write dispelled over two unforgettable days! The July 31 deadline is extended until the final seats have bums in them.

(Top: Tsawwassen BC, July 2017.)

Spring 2016 update

On Saturday, April 30, I'll be at Otter Books, in Nelson BC, from 9:30 to 11:30 am in support of international Authors for Indies Day. I will dance for you, sing for you, advise which books to buy from Otter Books' lively selection. Plus just now I took a bath and tidied my beard, and though the event's two days away and their effect may wear off that's better than nothing.

May through July will bring straight-up writing, followed by Vernon BC's wildly-rumoured Spokes Festival over the third weekend in August. Life is solid & awesome.

Jaw-Dropping Recommendation #1: The Memento by Christy Ann Conlin of the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. I was fortunate enough to go to school with Christy Ann twenty years ago and I flat-out pity anyway who has not met her; cracking her stellar second novel will be a good start at including Ms. Conlin in your life.

(Washington DC, February 2016. Mike Schroeder photo. I was out east signing books! That's not my truck.)

October update

As of September, All-Day Breakfast is for sale in the US at many fine independent stores as well as at all fine Barnes & Noble stores, where as of December the book will feature prominently in their affiliated Foreword Reviews magazine.


Upcoming events, none very near to the other:

Singapore Writers Festival. Outside Looking In: Overcoming the Risk of Exoticising, with Madeleine Thien, 1 Nov, Sun 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM; and The Appeal of the Undead, with Lefty and Nicholas Yong, 1 Nov, Sun 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM.

San Diego. Mysterious Galaxy Books, Saturday, January 2, 2 PM.

Kelowna Fan Xpo, Saturday, March 19. Time & venue TBA.

I'd planned to read at Bookmark Shoppe in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn on October 11 but have had to cancel due to a dumb sick-cough-chest infection. I will reschedule because Brooklyn.

(Photo by Anne Fleming, in Toronto.)

August update

 

Here's a review from Trek, the UBC alumnus magazine; ADB is second-to-last on the page below:
http://trekmagazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2015/june-2015/departments/books-june2015/
No previous review mentioned Congo even once.

And here's a quick but incisive interview with me from Alix Hawley's wonderful Storybrain series:
http://www.alixhawley.com/blog/archives/07-2015

(Hooked on Books, Penticton BC.)

Kelowna Now!

A lovely short profile by Stacy Penner in the Kelowna Now online paper:
http://www.kelownanow.com/watercooler/news/news/Central_Okanagan/15/07/07/Okanagan_Author_s_Book_About_Bacon_Loving_Zombies_Honoured_by_Amazon

July '15 updates

-All-Day Breakfast has been chosen by Amazon.ca as one of the 25 best books of the year so far -- books in any genre, from anywhere in the world -- and one of the 8 best books from Canada.

-I'll be reading on September 25 & 26 at the Thin Air Festival in Winnipeg; on October 31 & November 1 (a week earlier than previously posted) at the Singapore Writers Festival.

-The first draft of my next book is coming along at top speed. I'm part of a very small writing group this time around and there's nothing like monthly deadlines to increase page-count and decrease hours slept.


(Calgary, AB. Jimmy Schroeder photo.)

Upcoming Readings: Calgary, Singapore

I'll be reading from All-Day Breakfast at Shelf Life Books in Calgary at 7 pm on Monday, June 8. (My sister will receive her Social Work degree in Calgary on June 4, plus there's the zoo, Drumheller and my wife's cousin's farm outside Rimbey to explore.) Calgarian and old pal Lee Shedden will acquire drums and drummer for the event. Thank you, Lee.

Plus! I'll be appearing at the Singapore Writers Festival, thirteen thousand kilometres away, from November 6 - 8. Astounding. May read from older works Empress of Asia and Kingdom of Monkeys since, well, they're set in varying degrees in Singapore while All-Day Breakfast is in Nebraska. 

(Vancouver w. SE Asia-style rain.)

Globe & Mail, Coastal Spectator Reviews

Lovely reviews. Thank you, people.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/three-small-press-books-worth-a-read/article24006858/

http://coastalspectator.ca/?p=4221

(International House of Pancakes, Kelowna BC. Finn Schroeder photo.)

Your Last Chance for Giveaway Contest

"All-Day Breakfast" Giveaway Contest: Shawn Pol and James Baker correctly answered Question #2 as Bruce Springsteen. Then Mr. Pol's name was pulled in the draw! Sorry, James Baker!

ADB Giveaway Contest, Question #3 (the last):
Peter's gang sings karaoke to a song recorded by both Van Halen and The Kinks. What song?

Direct message your answer on Facebook author page (link on posts below) to have this killer new novel mailed straight to your door, where it won't necessarily kill you. It will only kill your MIND. Answers due noon PST, Monday April 12.

(That`s my kickass sis Katy Schroeder in the photo. She's on a plane!)

Giveaway Contest Continues

"All-Day Breakfast" Giveaway Contest: Shawn Pol, Marta Albricht and Rebecca Wickens correctly answered question #1 as The Thing. Then Ms. Wickens' name was pulled in the draw!

ADB Giveaway Contest, Question #2:
Miss Federici is a teacher at Colts Neck Elementary. To whom or what are both these names a reference?

Direct message me your answer at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adam-Lewis-Schroeder-author/19806273500 for a chance to have this killer new novel mailed straight to your door, where it won't necessarily kill you. It will only kill your MIND. Answers due noon PST, Friday April 9.

(Image courtesy Andrea Phillpotts.)

"All-Day Breakfast" Giveaway Contest!

Three ADB-related trivia questions posed over the next ten days. Only direct-message answers to A.L. Schroeder's Facebook will be accepted! Correct answers for each question placed in a draw, winner will receive a free copy of All-Day Breakfast direct from Douglas & McIntyre. You don't have to have read the book to play, just guess!

Question #1 (answers due by noon PST, Saturday, April 4):
After losing a pinkie, Peter compares himself to which three-fingers-and-a-thumb superhero?

Visit https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adam-Lewis-Schroeder-author/19806273500 and give your answer in a direct message.

(That ol' bull is D&M's blessed logo!)

SunFM Penticton Interview

 

 

Fun-time interview with Alysha Williams: "Local author/professor, Adam Lewis Schroeder stopped by this afternoon to talk sentient zombies, bacon, school field trips and of course, Thriller."
http://www.sunonline.ca/news-feed/2015/03/27/interview-with-local-author-adam-lewis-Schroeder

"Local professor" hints that I'm doddering, bearded and absent-minded, which is correct.

(The SmoQue Shack, Ottawa. Jill Dodd photo.)

North By Northwest Podcast

I was right chuffed to be a guest on CBC Radio's North By Northwest the other day. Listen here!

http://www.cbc.ca/nxnw/podcast/2015/03/22/hannalora-leavitt-discusses-her-upcomingmemoir/

After the interview, Sheryl MacKay actually, fittingly, played "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor, so here's that too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAA2rGxblLU

(Cowichan Bay BC, mere days after the interview & on the lam from Indiana authorities.)

Heaped in with heavy-hitter titles for Georgia Straight spring book review

http://www.straight.com/life/413996/seasons-reads-range-zombies-raptors

(Bulk Barn, Penticton BC)

Toronto Star Review

"Gross, hilarious, bacon-y pleasure."

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2015/03/12/all-day-breakfast-by-adam-lewis-schroeder-review.html

Smile .. WOW

More killer signage from Taryn Gunter. Can't figure why this makes me so cheerful.

(W. Pender & Homer, Vancouver BC.)

National Post review

All-Day Breakfast "makes detached limbs and coagulated purple blood downright charming."

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/03/05/adam-lewis-schroeder-all-day-breakfast-review/

Awning Sighting!

Great friend of the program Taryn Gunter writes: "The Cambie Cafe has been closed for over a year. There's a frozen yogurt place and Running Room next door, but no more all-day bacon and eggs at Cambie and 7th."

This blog's response: "What the shit?"

Contributions of All-Day Breakfast photos always welcome! Most easily posted at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adam-Lewis-Schroeder-author/19806273500,
they will find their way here every time.

(Cambie St. & W. 7th Avenue, Vancouver BC.)

Follow the Fellow Who Follows the Sea

Online journal Forget has been awfully good to me over the years, and after a seven-year hiatus they're celebrating their 14th anniversary with a freshly-made raft of material. I was happy to supply a short piece that I feel is lovely. And wet. It's lovely if you like things wet.

http://forgetmagazine.com/150214b.htm

(Brentwood College, Mill Bay BC.)