My book list, Imperfect People, is posted at Canadian Bookshelf.

I am delighted to have been selected for the 2012 TD Canadian Children’s Book Week, 5 to 12 May, 2012.  I’ll be touring schools and libraries in Ontario with two new children’s books: Jasper John Dooley, Star of the Week (Kids Can 2012); and Middle of Nowhere (Groundwood 2012).  For details on on the touring roster, visit the Canadian Children’s Book Centre website.

Found Press is republishing my uncollected, meta-fictional story ‘Obscure Objects’ (The New Quarterly 90) in its digital quarterly.  I’m so pleased it will reach fresh readers in this brave new format.  Advance praise from high places…

Barbara Gowdy: “Caroline Adderson is such a graceful and intelligent writer that the work that must surely go into creating her hilarious, prismatic stories is never betrayed in the language.  There is no strain on the page, not of bead of sweat.  I think of her as a writer’s writer.  I envy her talent and learn from her sentences.  The short story, ‘Obscure Objects,’ is, I’m happy to report,  Adderson at her glorious best.”

Meg Wolitzer: “‘Obscure Objects’, Caroline Adderson’s fierce and affecting workplace comedy, is a deadpan gem: droll, moving, snapping-smart.”

Pre-order here for a special Signature Edition.  A steal at only $0.99, or $3.75 for all four stories in the issue.

Received recently from a reader: “I want you to know that I’m reading Anna Karenina as a result of The Sky Is Falling…  I’m enjoying it thoroughly and am not even absolutely sure that would be the case had I not recently read and liked The Sky Is Falling so much. Just so you know what influence you wield.”  A writer could do worse than send readers to Tolstoy!

A piece I wrote for The New Quarterly’s “Magazine as Muse” feature (Winter 2010) has been chosen for inclusion in The Best Canadian Essays 2011 from Tightrope Press.  Thank you to editors Ibi Kaslik and Christopher Doda, and to Kim Jernigan for originally commissioning it.  Read “Highlights for Children” here.

I, Bruno is now in second printing.  Thank you to young readers everywhere!

On the newsstand now is the latest issue of Eighteen Bridges.  Catch the launch if you are in Toronto, or better yet, subscribe. In it you’ll find my piece about the trials of maintaining pacifist principles while raising a son – “How I Lost the War Against War and Learned to Love Arnold Schwarzenegger.”

Read the National Post conversation I had with Vancouver writers Annabel Lyon, Zsuzsi Gartner, Timothy Taylor, Billie Livingston, Lee Henderson, Steven Galloway, Ian Weir, John Vaillant and Kevin Chong about the challenges and benefits of writing in Vancouver.

I’m pleased to be heading to Jasper to deliver an author talk at the 2011 Alberta Library Conference, April 29th.  I’ll be presenting an overview of my writing career to date, interspersed with short readings from some of my nine books for adults and children.  Get more information here.

I’ll be reading from The Sky Is Falling at the Memorial Park Library in Calgary on Thursday 28 April at 7 pm.   Click here for more information.