Beating bushes

Back from a mini book tour, and I have this observation: try not to schedule an evening reading to coincide with the first big southeast gale of the season (the kind with horizontal rain and power outages). Weather aside, readings in Courtenay, Campbell River and Powell River were a lot of fun, and audiences pitched in with plenty of good comments and questions.

Before the tour, an event at the Vancouver Aquarium was well attended, and Joao Zinclar's slides of the Sao Francisco River looked spectacular on the big screen. An article in the Epoch Times describes the book and the event - although I'm described as a professor at the University of Victoria, something I've never been!