David Wroblewski with Lynn Rosen (BEA) on The Story of Edgar Sawtell

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www.movingstories.tv -- the first in our series of interviews from BookExpo America 2008, our BEA host LYNN ROSEN speaks with this summer's hot find, DAVID WROBLEWSKI about his first novel, ten years in the making -- THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELL. This an excerpt from Lynn's blog ... about the pivot from private to *way* public ...

"how arbitrary such boundaries are, between the work-in-progress and the work that is "done." It's never done. You could always do more. But nevertheless, you're finished with it, and it becomes this beautiful, foreign artifact that looks nothing like the stack of laser printer paper you've lived with for so long. Just when it becomes perfectly real to everyone else, it looks least like what you've known it to be as the writer.

Shot live at BookExpo America 2008, courtesy Michael McKenzie at Ecco/HarperCollins; published in Canada by Bond Street Books /Random House of Canada.

(c) 2008 BookShorts MovingStories.TV; for more information about our editorial and commissioned Author Interviews, contact judith@bookshorts.com

Festival Presenters at Moving Stories Film Preview

www.movingstoriesfilmfest.com -- The consensus is growing - books on film help reach new audiences, and are an exciting way to bring readers to books. Moving Stories Film Fest proposes to do just that, and at the recent BookExpo Canada, MSFF Programmer Paul Quarrington had the opportunity to get one-on-one with the festivals presenters that will be orchestrating the short film program across the country this fall. Festival Advisor Nino Ricci and Anne Collins were there too, champions of the initiative to support authors' work on screen; as is author Susan Swan whose novel What Casanova Told Me was the very first to be adapted as for BookShorts.


Shot live at BookExpo Canada, Moving Stories Film Fest Preview event, June 15, 2008.  Paul Quarrington With Anne Green, Charlene Diehl, Hal Wake, Kelly Davis, Susan Swan, and Judith Keenan with Nino Ricci.

What it takes to get in the picture: Motorcycle gang hits BEC 2008

www.movingstoriesfilmfest.com -- what it takes to get into the picture -- 8 bikers, a Harley ride on the exhibit floor, a sense of humour, and a trade show full of people willing to be "convinced."

Moving Stories Film Preview June 15 @ BookExpo Canada

BookShorts, the seminal producer / distributor of media inspired by books, is excited to announce Moving Stories Film Festival, a 90-minute curated program of short films celebrating the written word. The films are being selected by Festival Founder Judith Keenan and Programmer Paul Quarrington in consultation with prestigious Film Advisors, and have been submitted by artists around the world. From September to December 2008, Moving Stories will screen at public events hosted by film and literature festivals across North America.

A preview of Moving Stories will take place in the BookShorts Lounge at BookExpo Canada on Sunday, June 15 at 2:00pm. The event will include authors and directors whose work is represented in the program. Programmers from host venues will be in attendance. Moving Stories will announce the final selection of films in July 2008.

For more information about the Preview event, contact Sherry Naylor at Meisner de Groot & Associates, sherry@mdgassociates.com (416) 368-8253.

To submit films before the Film Submission deadline July 10 -- http://www.movingstoriesfilmfest.com

BookExpo 2008 New Author Events & Timely Conference Program

www.bookshorts.com/bookexpo -- Held in Toronto, BookExpo Canada is the publishing industry trade show that combines a large and diverse selection of book titles with an unparalleled conference program. This special publishing industry and author event is held annually to create a dynamic environment for networking, sourcing and relationship building within the publishing industry in Canada.

BOOKSHORTS LOUNGE returns this year with new features on MovingStories.TV . BookShorts will present a whole new line up of video author interviews from authors across the country. And the best thing is, you can take them home with you on DVD!

If you are a publisher hosting authors at BEC, or an author in Toronto readdy, willing and able to join the 21st video age, visit bookshorts.com/bookexpo to hold a spot in the BookShorts Studio program. We'll shoot and produce a Video Author Interview in time for fall promotions.

All at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, downtown Toronto, Conference June 13, 14, 15; Trade Show June 15, 16, 2008. Contact judith@bookshorts.com

Donner Prize Shortlist 2007/2008 The Book Profiles

www.movingstories.tv ... Allan Gotlieb, Chairman of the Donner Canadian Foundation states, This year will be remarkable for a number of reasons. We are celebrating the Donner Prizes 10th anniversary, and we have five exceptional shortlisted books that grapple with some of Canadas most pressing public policy challenges.

The Shortlist video delivers the expert opinions of this years jury at the heat of the moment during their their intense jury adjudications. Together with the evocative images, musical score, and flavoured by Colin Mochries narration, the Shortlist Book Profiles are moving tribute to the spirit of the Donner Prize.

More on the prize at www.donnerbookprize.com  

Night Work: A Sawchuk Poem - Directed by Justin Simms

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www.bookshorts.com/watch_nightwork.htm ...  "The book by Randall Maggs certainly illustrated for me the power Sawchuk carried in terms of his mythology.  Dealing with heroes, and our interpretations of them, is always a fascinating thing... and Sawchuk, with his great warrior spirit in the face of relentless adversity, is a striking example of the human condition.  I think it makes Sawchuk's story universal.  In its own way, his story is our story."  This from Director Justin Simms, about his short film adaptation inspired by Maggs' NIGHT WORK: THE SAWCHUK POEMS.  Randy has been receiving excellent reviews across the country, and is in great demand by festivals and audience across the country.  Catch him in April at Readings at Harbourfront in Toronto, and in a tour out west in the Fall of 2008.

 (c) BookShorts Literacy Program, with the assistance of Canadian Heritage and Brick Books.  www.brickbooks.ca

What would you do At a Loss for Words: Diane Schoemperlen

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http://www.movingstories.tv -- Read Diane Schoemperlen's novel, "At a Loss for Words." Then read Quarrington's "The Ravine" right after, immediately after. Or the other way around, doesn't matter. Very interesting that juxtaposition.

BookShorts Literacy Program; Special Thanks to Becky at International Readings at Harbourfront and Phyllis Bruce at HarperCollins for sending the novel-that-could-be-my-personal-journal.

Food, Sex, and Salmonella: Why Our Food is Making Us Sick

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www.movingstories.tv -- With solid science and deft humour, celebrated epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews brings us tales of the bacteria, viruses, and parasites that have made their way into our food supply.  He describes the global patterns of foodborne disease, from ciguatera toxins in fish to pandemics of Salmonella, and the changes in climate, culture, agriculture, and trade that have led to the emergence of new diseases and epidemics. It's not all doom and gloom -- "Dr. Dave" provides practical advice for what each of us can do on a daily basis to take responsibility for mitigating the effects for the future.

Directed by Kate Hollett (c) 2008 BookShorts Literacy Program for Greystone Books with the assistance of Canadian Heritage Book Publishing Industry Development Program. 

Charles Taylor Prize Names Richard Gwyn, John A.

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www.movingstories.tv -- The bookselllers in the room, the authors at the podium, they rank the Charles Taylor Prize in an echelon shared by Scotiabnk Giller Prize for fiction, and Griffin Prize for Poetry.  All this literary splendour, within days of the announcement that the plug was pulled on the US, NBC-broadcast Quill Awards.  Makes us feel good in a Canadian way, eh.

Richard Gywn, whose book was published by our favourite rock-star publisher Anne Collins of Random House Canada, won this year's Prize for literary fiction.  Also nominated were David Gilmour, Lorna Goodison, Kevin Bazzana and Anna Porter.  Look for snippets from these excellent authors in the upcoming blog entries.

Shot on location at Le Meridien King Edward Hotel March 3 (c)  2008 BookShorts.