On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

That's the word I got this morning via Twitter. Hayden Trenholm bought that publishing company from Virginia O'Dine about a decade ago, built it up into one of Canada's independent SF&F powerhouses as far I could see. I have a few of the books put out by Bundoran across the years, and it's going to hurt in several ways to lose them as a company.

Among their titles that I own:

- Defining Diana by Hayden himself.
- Right to Know by Edward Willett
- Strange Bedfellows, an anthology about alternative versions of Canadian history.

Can-Con is going to hurt as well. Bundoran has been part of the core support of our little literary SF&F convention here since it re-started. As if anyone's going to cope with the Time of Pandemic unscathed.

At any rate, if there's any kind of good luck that can befall Bundoran between now and the announced October 30th shutdown date, this post is the start of my effort to invoke it. I hope I'm not alone, and I hope it works.

So I'll be running a half-table at this event tomorrow:

http://smallpressbookfair.blogspot.ca/2014/02/the-ottawa-small-press-fair-spring-2014.html

Hoping to sell books and sketches...

I was there, along with about 20 other small press players from around Ottawa. I expect the weather messed up the attendance plans of more than a few people who would have otherwise shown up. It was raining rather steadily throughout the morning and afternoon, after all.

Still, it was a good time.

Photo by Max Middle. Used with permission.

Max Middle can be found here.