Come on our Sunday evening, March 6th, to hear myself, Cory Doctorow, and David Nickle (whose latest novel, Eutopia--pictured at right, has just been released and is kicking critical ass)!  Cory, David and I go back a long ways, and we've all read together many times.  I don't know what the audience is going to be like, but on our side, expect lively fireworks and enthusiastic, dramatic readings from all three of us.

For more information, you can visit the Chiarascuro Reading Series website.  

This weekend is the annual media-oriented con in Toronto, Polaris.  I'll be there, and you can catch me at panels, a reading, or a signing, at these times:

• Where's My Rocket Car? Friday 09:00 PM 
• Reading - Karl Schroeder Saturday 11:00 AM 
• Trashing Other Planets Saturday 04:00 PM 
• Avatar: The Theory of Pandora Saturday 05:00 PM 
• Signing - Karl Schroeder Sunday 10:00 AM 
• Bigger Guns Or Better Stories? Sunday 03:00 PM 

Hope to see you there!

Toronto Public Library has put up its web page detailing my writer in residence tenure this spring.  That means I can reveal the details here too; I'll give you some here, but I'll also be placing the events into my calendar, which you can access at any time through the "Events" menu item on the left of the site's window (or the "upcoming events" box on the right).

Here's how to participate

Submit your manuscript for an opportunity to have a one-on-one evaluation with me or attend the writer-in-residencereadings and workshops.

• Manuscripts should be sent via email to Karl Schroeder, writer in residence at the Merril Collection.
• All manuscripts should include your name, address, phone number and e-mail address.
• Manuscripts should be 5,000 words in length. I will read only the first 5,000 words of longer submissions and base his comments on that word length.
• After your manuscript has been read, the Merril Collection staff will contact you and book an appointment for you to discuss your writing.
• I'lll will need 1 –2 weeks lead time in order to read submissions before an appointment is booked.
• The library reserves the right to limit the number of manuscripts accepted.
• Toronto Public Library is not responsible for returning manuscripts. Please submit a COPY of your work.

You can listen to the complete text of the novel, read by Joyce Irvine.  This is the first of three rapid-fire releases coming from MacMillan audio--the next two books in the series, Queen of Candesce and Pirate Sun, should be made available within the next few weeks.

To get it, bounce on over to the page at Audible.com.  And enjoy!

Here's my schedule for the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, which happens August 6-10, in Denver Colorado.  It's a pretty modest schedule, but when you realize that there's several hundred programming guests and only a limited set of slots--well, I don't know very many other midlist writers who have any more panels than this.  In that sense, Worldcon is a victim of its own success; but I'm not complaining, because people will still be able to find me, and the Kaffeeklatsch and reading should be fun.

• Swashbucklers in Space,  Thur  17:30  (I'm moderating)        
• Canadian Science Fiction,   Fri 10:00  (moderating this one too)

•  Kaffeeklatch   Sat,  16:00      

• Reading: Thur 11:30  
  

If you want to see me outside of this schedule, just email me and we can talk.     

...So come on out!  I'm going to be reading from Pirate Sun, which will be released from Tor Books in August.  The location is the beautiful and historic Beaches Library branch of the Toronto Public Libraries.