1) To say thanks to the young ladies from Agnes McPhail Public School for interviewing me about Not Suitable for Family Viewing.

2) And to prove that I was alert throughout the Ontario Library SuperConference even if every other photo taken of me there makes it look like I’d just nodded off.

No. Not if you get to enjoy the warmth of the Ontario Library Association’s SuperConference. (What a corny line. Clearly, I’ll do anything for a segue.)

I’ve been invited with other winners of 2011 Forest of Reading Awards to make a little presentation. I’ll also be signing copies of Betsy Wickwire’s Dirty Secret so please come and join me at the HarperCollins booth. (I’ll post exact times when I know them…)

If you can’t make it to the conference at the Convention Centre, perhaps I could make it to your school. I have some openings for author visits on Monday, January 30 and  Wednesday, February 1. Anywhere in the GTA is fine.

E-mail me at v.grant@ns.sympatico.ca for details.

• The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones.
• Haunted by Barbara Haworth-Attard.
• Homicide Related by Norah McClintock.
• The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade

The Arthur Ellis Awards will be presented by the Crime Writers of Canada in June.

 The comic legal thriller for teens, Quid Pro Quo, will soon be available in Korea. It’s currently available in France under the title Sur la Liste des Suspects. Rageot, the French publisher has also picked up the rights to Res Judicata.