Author! Author!

Do you ever wonder how authors come up with their ideas? Or what inspired them to write a book in the first place? Why not ask them yourself! At the Collingwood Public Library, we bring in writers on a regular basis to talk about their latest books.

Our Author Talks series hosts three major authors each spring and fall. In the past couple of years we’ve hosted Ian Hamilton, Cathy Gildiner, Richard B. Wright, Alison Pick, Susanna Kearsley, and others. This fall, we have booked three award-winning authors, two of whom we are welcoming back with new books to talk about.

• Debra Komar is a forensic anthropologist who solves historical crimes using modern investigative methods. The Bastard of Fort Stikine, which she presented to us last fall, was recently awarded the 2016 Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History. Her latest book, Black River Road, is being published this August and she will be here on September 8 to fill us in on how she investigated a 19^th century unsolved crime with the most unlikely suspect.

• New to us this year is novelist and Globe & Mail critic Kate Taylor who on October 6 will be discussing Serial Monogamy (to be published this August) about what really makes up a relationship and a life, shifting between contemporary Toronto and the Victorian England of Charles Dickens. Her previous two books have won her the Commonwealth Prize, the Toronto Book Award, and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction.

• Terry Fallis has visited Collingwood Public Library several times and always to enthusiastic audiences. He’s back on November 10 to talk to us about Poles Apart, his take on feminism, blogging and the ridiculousness of male/female stereotypes. Terry is the winner of numerous awards including twice for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.

If any of these authors sound interesting to you, you’re welcome to come and hear them speak. Find out more about dates, times, and registration at collingwoodpubliclibrary.ca

-- Dorothy Gebert