Back in full swing...

After semi-working at home (reading, writing, catching up on all the little niggly things we can never get to during the year), we are back in our offices full time now, airing out dusty corners, going through the piles of books, galleys, catalogues and magazines that have piled up, and getting kind of excited about what we have on our docket for 2014! Yes, it might seem like an eternity away but before you know it, winter will be here, then spring and our 2014 edition.

Can't say what we have going on yet, but I can say that our 2014 Festival dates are April 29 - May 4, 2014 and will be held at Hotel 10, 10 Sherbrooke Street West, just as we've done the past few years.

One of the first things on my task-list (just finished going through my hundreds of emails, organizing, deleting, replying, puzzling) is to tackle the piles and piles of books we have all over our offices and in my office in particular. That means filing some, tossing some, lending many, and giving some away as promotion! Stay tuned for that!

It's a big messy job keeping track of all these books, but, naturally, we wouldn't have it any other way...

2014 Blue Metropolis Literary Festival

Great news today! First, we've confirmed a very big star for 2014. We are all very happy around here because this writer will be a major highlight for our 2014 Festival.

Mysterious writer confirmed for 2014!

Mark the dates! Our 2014 Festival will take place April 29 to May 4, 2014 and, yes, will be held again at Hotel 10 in downtown Montreal.

So far we have two writers confirmed and about 185 to go!

Hint #1 about big name 2014 writer: this writer doesn't write in English...