Author Archives: robert
Victoria – Monday, October 3, 2011
This is it, folks. I’ve been roadtesting the material, honing my chops, and at last: the Victoria launch of my new book, Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen. Where else? Bolen Books. The …
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Vancouver – Saturday October 1, 2011
The Walk Like a Man tour continues tomorrow night at Red Cat Records in Vancouver, with a night of music, beverages, books, frivolity… oh, and me. I hope you’ll join us. The details: Walk Like a Man at Red Cat …
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Toronto, Tuesday September 13
I know, I’ve been AWOL. My apologies. There are a variety of reasons, including (but not restricted to) technical difficulties, stress, chaos, writing a new book, stress, time, publishing a new book, stress… But enough about that. I’ll do my …
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Bestseller!
There’s a longer post coming soon, with links to all sorts of neat on-line stuff I’ve been doing (and have had done to me), as well as one talking about touring and Toronto and general surreality. They’re coming. I swear. …
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CBC Radio, Monday November 1
Just a quick heads-up: at 4 pm (PDT), Monday November 1, I’ll be on CBC Radio’s All Points West, talking with Jo-Ann Roberts about Bedtime Story on the eve of its publication. If you’re not within transponder reach, you can …
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On pageants and popularity
I did something last week that I felt… dirty and a little ashamed of, even as I was doing it. I didn’t let the vague sense of shame stop me, naturally. But I had a realization today. Last week (okay, …
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It’s not semantics
I’m writing this from a hotel room in Seattle, on a grey and stormy morning. The first mainstream review of Bedtime Story just popped into my google alerts, from the Victoria Times Colonist. Overall, I’m very pleased. What pleases me …
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Words of advice from a questionable source
I leave tomorrow morning for Vancouver. For the first time ever, I’m going to be appearing at one of Canada’s major writer’s festivals, the Vancouver International Writer’s Festival. I’m appearing at an event entitled Suffer the Little Children on Wednesday, …
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New website!
Now with fresh blog posts! Seeing as you’re looking at this page, what I’m about to say won’t come as a surprise: I’ve got a kick-ass new website! Thanks to Gregory and Lisa Thomas-Tench, and their team at Redwerks, the …
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The universe, she is funny
So, Friday’s mail brought ARCs of Bedtime Story. And today’s mailbag brought this: What, Rob? A new book deal? How is it we haven’t heard anything about this? Well, you will. Soon.
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