In the Fabled East
I'm extremely proud to say that my second novel is landing on shelves as we speak and that the accompanying page full of author's notes and movin' pictures is now up and running. Go on, enjoy yourself for once.
Readings (rife with drama, funny voices & flailing hands)
-Sechelt: August 13, Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, 10:30 AM.
-Vancouver: October 19-24, Vancouver International Writers Festival, exact date & time TBA.
-Toronto: October 20-30, Internationl Festival of Authors, exact date & time TBA.
More new work
"This is Not the End My Friend" in the anthology Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow, also from Douglas & McIntyre, bless 'em.
Contact information
Adam Lewis Schroeder
c/o D & M Author Mail
Suite 201, 2323 Quebec Street
Vancouver BC V5T 4S7
or
publicity@dmpibooks.com
From the archives:
Sept. 28, 1972
Lincoln Clarkes photo, taken behind HI-Vancouver Jericho Beach in May 2009. And I seriously wear that suit every single day of my life, especially while weeding the pea patch.
Darwin's Bastards: The Movie
That's me at top right under Yann Martel--thank goodness I'm still alive at the end. Heavens!Newspaper news
Last week (all week!) of July 2010: Guest editor/columnist for the National Post's The Afterword.
Profile in the Georgia Straight..
Profile in Toro magazine.
An interview concerning short stories, in the National Post.
(The latest reviews are here.)
Audio
Interview on the July 25 North By Northwest on CBC Radio One.
Profile for the April Speakeasy podcast.
A quick biography
Adam Lewis Schroeder grew up in Vernon BC and completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in 1999. He has since traveled widely and published stories in more than a dozen journals and anthologies. In 2001 his short fiction collection Kingdom of Monkeys was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award as the year's best first collection by an English Canadian. His novel Empress of Asia was published by Raincoast in 2006 and Thomas Dunne in the US in 2008; a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, it was also selected by the Globe & Mail as one of the best books of the year. Douglas & McIntyre will publish a new novel, In the Fabled East, in Spring 2010. In addition, Adam has been a columnist for CBC Radio One since 2008 and a Creative Writing instructor at UBC Okanagan since 2009. He lives in Penticton BC with his wife and kids.