Free shipping, tonight only!

As part of a promotion to be announced on tonight's radio interview, we are waiving the shipping charges on any number of books ordered (North America only) for tonight only! If you need any of the titles, now is the time to go crazy on our book page!

Radio interview tonight and feature story

Tonight I'll be chatting with Heli Cotnam on Let's Live it Up, broadcast live on CFRM 100.7 FM at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. The interview will be almost half an hour in length, allowing us to get into numerous subjects, with attention no doubt on Steam in Northern Ontario. The broadcast catchment is about half a million people radiating out from Sudbury. You can listen live here (be sure to check the "Windows Media" option to avoid a download).

Today's Orillia newspaper has a feature article on the newest book, and the author in general, here.

We have many more radio and television interviews coming, along with newspaper coverage, in the next couple of weeks.

New bookstores and media attention

We are pleased to announce that Page & Turners book shop in Barrie has been added to our list of retailers. For you folks up north, The Bookcase in Dryden is now stocking Steam in Northern Ontario. In Hamilton, the Coles store in Jackson Square is stocking Steam Echoes of Hamilton.

Over the next couple of weeks, we have scheduled numerous radio and television interviews about the Hamilton release and other titles. There will also be several feature newspaper stories. We'll post information on these on a day-to-day basis.

We are also booking a number of speaking engagements for 2009, including Owen Sound and Buffalo. If your group is interested in a presentation and book signing event, kindly contact us.

Hometown book signing in Barrie this weekend

We have set up a book signing at the Chapters-Indigo outlet in Barrie for this Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m. We'll bring along a full stock of all the titles, so if you are looking for a signed copy of any of the volumes, stop by! Directions to the store are here.

Two new dealers and a book signing!

We are pleased to announce that Transport Books in Toronto is now carrying the full line of our titles. Also, the Chapters outlet in Barrie is selling the two Allandale titles. For those of you in Southern Ontario looking for a copy of the new Hamilton book or any of the previous seven volumes, several of our dealers are taking stock to the Christmas Train Show in Toronto this weekend.

We have also scheduled a book signing at George's Trains in Toronto for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on December 6.

Shipping update

As planned, we took delivery of Steam Echoes of Hamilton on Monday, November 3. Packaging and shipping commenced immediately, and we managed to get a few dozen books in the system that day. Tuesday the 4th was our first big day, and we will continue to move as many as possible each day this week. All of the prepaid dealer packages and the vast majority of the prepaid individual books will be in transit by Friday. In each case, orders are being filled on a first-in, first-out basis. We will continue to package books over the weekend, with all the remaining orders to date shipped on Monday, November 10. It's safe to say that any orders placed this week will be shipped next Monday as well. From that time on, we will be able to ship any orders within 24 hours.

Over the next day or so, I am going to upload sample pages of all eight books to the web page. These will be in PDF format, similar to the "look inside this book" featured by online retailers such as Amazon.