Toronto book launch for Wake: Photos
by Rob - May 6th, 2009.Filed under: Book Tour, Wake.
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Above: Chris Szego and Aurora Simmons from Bakka-Phoenix Books selling copies of Wake at the launch.
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Above: Robert J. Sawyer reading from Wake.
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Above: Mark Askwith (producer for Space: The Imagination Station), who interviewed Rob on stage at the launch; Lesley Livingston, author of the YA fantasy novel Wonderous Strange from HarperCollins; and Robert J. Sawyer.
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Above: The real Lee Amodeo, who appears as a rock-star character in Wake, with author and Robert J. Sawyer; Amodeo is chair of Toronto’s annual science-fiction convention Ad Astra.
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Above: Debbie Gaudet (Senior Manager, Publicity for Penguin Canada), Chris Szego (Manger of Bakka-Phoenix Books), and Robert J. Sawyer.
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Above: Robert J. Sawyer and fan Troy Perault, who had Rob’s autograph tattooed onto his leg after a previous event.
All photos by Carolyn Clink.
The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site