An Invitation to a Book Launch and a Waterloo-Wellington Bloggers Meet

My third novel, entitled The Young City and published by the Dundurn Group, completes the Unwritten Books fantasy trilogy for young adults. I’m pleased to announce that I will be launching this novel at the Waterloo Public Library on Saturday, January 24, and everybody interested in children’s and young adult fantasy are invited to attend.

The event starts at 2:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Waterloo Public Library’s main branch, located at the corner of Albert and Dupont Streets in Uptown Waterloo. There will be snacks and (warm) refreshments served, there will be readings from the book, questions and answers, and more. Words Worth Books will be in attendance to sell copies, which I will be happy to sign.

And after the event, around 4 p.m., we will retire to the Red Lion Pub in the basement of the Huether Hotel for a pub grub dinner. If you are a blogger in the Waterloo-Wellington area, you are invited to come out and meet your kinsmen and women.

For further information on The Young City, check out the official Unwritten Books website at http://unwrittenbooks.ca/. Otherwise, I look forward to seeing you at the event!

A synopsis of “The Young City”:

Rosemary Watson and Peter McAllister think their future is clear: they’re finally heading off for university. They’re thinking about finding apartments, picking courses, living like adults.

But what happens when the future becomes the past? While helping Rosemary’s brother move into an apartment in Toronto, Peter and Rosemary fall into an underground river and are swept back in time, to Toronto in 1884. It’s a struggle to survive and adapt to the alien culture of the late nineteenth century. Peter and Rosemary are forced to work together, to live together, and to become the adults they’ve only been pretending to be.

As the days stranded turn to weeks, then months, Rosemary and Peter begin to wonder if they’re really ready for a future together - and what they will do if they can’t get back.

Then someone brings them a watch, powered by a battery, made in Taiwan.