Book Lover's Ball for 2009 coming up

Once again, I'll be one of the authors at the Book Lover's Ball, the Toronto Public Library's annual black-tie fundraiser. Tickets are $500.

This is the fourth annual event; at the second one, I received the $2,500 Toronto Public Library Celebrates Reading Award; this year's winner will be announced at this year's ball, which takes place on Thursday, February 12, 2009. Here are some photos from the 2007 ball.

Authors confirmed for this year so far are:

• Tony Aspler
  
• Linwood Barclay
  
• Christie Blatchford
  
• Giles Blunt
  
• Wayson Choy
  
• George Elliott Clarke
  
• Tish Cohen
  
• Julie Couillard
  
• Anthony De Sa
  
• Marina Endicott
  
• Joy Fielding
  
• MaryLou Finlay
  
• Elyse Friedman
  
• Catherine Gildiner
  
• Richard J. Gwyn
  
• Dan Hill
  
• Maureen Jennings
  
• Guy Gavriel Kay
  
• Vincent Lam
  
• Stephen Marche
  
• The Right Honourable Paul Martin
  
• Andrew Pyper
  
• Paul Quarrington
  
• David Adams Richards
  
• C.S. Richardson
  
• Peter Robinson
  
• Robert Rotenberg
  
• Robert J. Sawyer
  
• Russell Smith
  
• Christina Sorbara
  
• Anita Stewart
  
• Debbie Travis
  
• Jan Wong
  
• Alissa York

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