BOOk EVENTS
SATURDAY, NOV. 30
❚ Gayle Jabour and Daniel Tigner sign The Time of Your Life — Everyone Has a Story, noon to 2 p.m., Librairie Michabou, Gatineau.
❚ Workshop: Michele Vinet on writing poetic material based on personal exploration, 2-4 p.m., Carlingwood library. Online registration: http://is.gd/35PMXi. Info: 613-580-2940.
❚ Mystery author Vicki Delany signs her sixth Const. Molly Smith novel, A Cold White Sun, 1-3 p.m., Brittons in The Glebe, 846 Bank St.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4
❚ Victoria Abbott (aka Mary Jane Maffini and Victoria Maffini) launches The Sayers Swindle, 6-8 p.m., Books on Beechwood, 35 Beechwood Ave., 613-742-5030 or detect@rogers.com
❚ Kevin Morris (In Times Wanting) is special guest, Municipal Library, 100 Old Chelsea Rd., 11:30 a.m.
THURSDAY, DEC. 5
❚ Book launch for Dave Bidini (Keon and Me), 8-10 p.m., Raw Sugar Cafe, 692 Somerset St. W., 613-233-2589.
❚ Jennifer DeBruin signs Shadows in the Tree, 5-9 p.m. at the Christmas Market, Holy Trinity Secondary School, 18044 Tyotown Rd., Cornwall.
SATURDAY, DEC. 7
❚ Launch of Ground Rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press 2003-2013 by co-publishers rob mclennan and Christine McNair, 5 p.m., The Manx Pub, 370 Elgin St.
❚ Ottawa’s Aurelia Osborne launches debut novel The Admirer, 2:30 p.m., Rideau Library, 377 Rideau St., free tea, prizes.
❚ Robert Fontaine signs True Confessions of a Film Critic, 1-3 p.m., Books on Beechwood, 35 Beechwood Ave. SUNDAY, DEC. 8
❚ Guy Thatcher signs A Journey of Days Continues, 1:30-3 p.m., Mill Street Books, 52 Mill St., Almonte.
❚ Tammie Winsor launches Jack and the Fairy Dogmother, 3-4:30 p.m., The Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club, 379 Preston St. THURSDAY, DEC. 12 ❚ Terrence Rundle West (Not in My Father’s Footsteps and Run of the Town) reads Hobo Christmas 1935 at the Christmas luncheon of the retired teachers of Ottawa, 11:30 a.m., RA Centre, 2451 Riverside. Submit literary events online by visiting ottawacitizen.com/eventsform and selecting the Literary category. Send by email to books@ottawacitizen.com.