So here I am, after a long session of rolling around (nude of course) in books by the likes of Alice Kuipers, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Lawrence Hill – preparing for my role and hoping a bit of literary brilliance from this year’s attendees just might rub off.
Not only is security not going to remove me again this year, they want me to blog about my festival experiences.
So, when I’m not in the hospitality suite licking salt off the chips I shall hit the festival events – the Nooners, the Afternoon book Chats and the Mainstage events and bring all the gruesome highlights.
Entirely against my will, I’ve even agreed to visit the After Words venue, CYRK, to drink wine and report on late night festival activities.
If you do happen to see security hauling me away – again, try not to chuck books at me. See you at the festival!
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Daria Salamon’s first novel, The Prairie Bridesmaid, will be published in fall 2008 by Key Porter Books. Daria’s journalism has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Winnipeg Free Press, and Uptown Magazine; one of her non-fiction pieces appears in A/Cross Sections: New Manitoba Writing. She lives in Osborne Village with her son, Oskar, husband, Rob and cat, Dr. Puddles.
