An interview with Lynda by Marie Bilodeau is featured on Edge's home page today.
Lynda talks about her upcoming presentation in Oxford, England and the new novel, Pretenders.
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Thank you to LibraryThing users margalo_streussal and plappen for rating The Courtesan Prince on LibraryThing. Also to cenobyte and xiaolung for listing it among their books. I'm okalrelsrv :-).

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Author Lynda Williams was pleased to do critiques of short-listed stories with the West End Writers group, June 17, 2008 at Barclay Manor. Among those attending were: Karen Squire, Shedun Wasti, Lara Sleath, Devin Elizabeth, Mari Kane, Patricia Morris, Patricia Evans, Femi Agbayewa, Keith Mabbs, CN Lucas, G. Swasti and Tom de Rybel. First prize went to Shedun Wasti for his Vancouver bus-riding story, "Who is Stupid, Now?" Second prize was for the poem "The Uninvited Poet" and third was awarded to the hitchhiking story "Driving Under the Influence".

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>On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:13:58 -0700, KLMabbs wrote:
> Have a great trip home Lynda. Be safe. You were great tonight, the
> comments were very honest and that is sometimes very rare in the
> world today.

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On June 16th Lynda invited art students from D.P.Todd Secondary School to create Okal Rel Universe art for the launch of Pretenders on September 30th 2008.

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On June 11th Lynda invited art students from College Heights Secondary School to create Okal Rel Universe art for the launch of Pretenders on September 30th 2008.

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Amel is grateful for Catherine's sympathy. Lynda was most pleased to sign her copy of Courtesan Prince. Ranar wouldn't know what to do about another frequent visitor to the Lott household, named Holly, who is "into" him. So I haven't told him. I don't think he'd mind particularly but he might want to study the phenomenon. Tegan is doing a portrait of a Silver Demish princess for an art project, with organic elements like wood in the background and wearing a string of pearls. Angela is advising characters in Righteous Anger about how to conduct their lives better whenever I get a chance to read her the next installment. Mel has done some new chibbie cartoons which are posted by the computer upstairs in the Lott house. Jennifer Lott is home for a visit and has promised to read the gang a new chapter of her second novel in the Drescopata series. She brought Angela the game, Catan, for her birthday and we all played it last night. Tegan and Jennifer teamed up to wipe out myself, David and Angela.

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This week's google alert for "Lynda Williams" netted two items for me and nothing else. Strange how this makes one feel real again when the last half a dozen have been about other worthy women named Lynda Williams. The world is getting so big and busy I guess we have to find ponds where we can to assert our identities - like competing with our name-sakes for attention on the web. We are creatures designed for the soft voices of village life, not the roar of the whole world. It is oddly reassuring to know one's name has been 'spoken' by friends. So thank you VCON 33 and Nina Munteanu for making me feel real today.

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Pleased to see Righteous Anger mentioned by Stewart Savard, Teacher-Librarian Courtenay Middle School, in his article for the Virtual Bookmark, a supplement to the BCTLA's professional journal.

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VCON 33 is getting its programming pages up. Here's my bio. There will be an Okal Rel Universe event. Calling all con-goers game to take part to turn out. ORU Events feature supporters and contributors giving short presentations from short readings of favorite passages to fighting demos, making connections, showing ORU-inspired art, statements, or modeling ORU costumes. We've had great turn outs for these in Calgary and Prince George but this will be the first time in Vancouver, so I'm a bit nervous! Search "okal rel" on youtube for video of last event in Prince George.

Labels: Appearances, ORU Event, Stephen St. Laurent, VCON

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