Author’s are an integral and exciting part of the program at OLA Super Conference. We are happy to hosting many conference sessions, readings and signing opportunities with our favourite authors.
Keep checking back as new signings will be added right up until the conference!
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CANSCAIP – Best Bets
Thursday 10:30 am – 11:25 am
Hot off the press! The Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP) proudly presents 10 Members nominated to the OLA Best Bets Lists. Join us for a lively session as some of today’s best children’s authors talk up their brand new creations.
Kathy Stinson, Harry and Walter, Annick Press
R.J. Anderson, A Little Taste of Poison, Simon & Schuster
Marina Cohen, The Inn Between, Roaring Book Press
Susan Hughes, Making Canada Home, Owlkids
Rina Singh, Diwali Festival of Lights, Orca
Erin Bow, The Swan Riders, Simon & Schuster
Lena Coakley, Worlds of Ink and Shadow, Harper Collins
Teresa Toten, Beware That Girl, Tundra
Karen Bass, The Hill, Pajama Press
Helaine Becker, Monster Science: Could Monsters Survive (and Thrive) in the Real World, Kids Can Press
CANSCAIP – Forest of Reading®
Friday 10:30 am – 11:25 am
Thinking about bringing an author to your school? The Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP) proudly presents 10 Members nominated for the Forest of Reading® Awards. Join us for a lively session as some of today’s best children’s authors share a glimpse into the story behind the story.
Kathy Stinson, Harry and Walter, Annick Press
Lena Coakley, Worlds of Ink and Shadow, HarperCollins
Kenneth Oppel, The Nest, HarperCollins
R.J. Anderson, A Pocket Full of Murder, Athenium
Etta Kaner, Friend or Foe: The Whole Truth About Animals that People Love to Hate, Owlkid Books
Kira Vermond, Half-Truths and Brazen Lies: An Honest Look at Lying, Owlkid Books
Helaine Becker, Worms for Breakfast: How to Feed a Zoo, Owlkid Books
Phillippa Dowding, Myles and the Monster Outside, Dundurn Press
Sue Irwin, Safety Stars: Players Who Fought to Make the Hard-Hitting Game of Professional Hockey Safer, James Lorimer
Melanie Florence, Missing Nimâmâ, Clockwise Press
Crime Writers of Canada
Friday 1:00 pm – 1:55 pm
The members of the Crime Writers of Canada, ranging from long-established favourites to up and coming first-timers, give you a fast-paced introduction to their newest mystery, suspense and true crime titles, and tell you why they should be in your library.
Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) is a national non-profit organization for Canadian mystery and crime writers, associated professionals, and others with a serious interest in Canadian crime writing. Our mission is to promote Canadian crime writing and to raise the profile of Canadian crime writers with readers, reviewers, librarians, booksellers, and media.
Anita Arvast, What killed Jane Creba, Rap, Race and the Invention of a Gang War, Dundurn
Victoria Abbott aka Mary Jane Maffini, The Hammett Hex, Berkley Prime Crime (PRH)
Rick Blechta, Rundown, Raven Books/Orca
M.H. Callway, Glow Grass and Other Tales, Carrick Publishing
Melodie Campbell, The Bootlegger’s Daughter, Orca Books
Jen Danna aka Sara Driscoll, Lone Wolf, Kensington
Lisa de Nikolits, No Fury Like That, Inannna
Vicki Delany aka Eva Gates, Elementary, She Reads, Crooked Lane Books
Barbara Fradkin, The Trickster’s Lullaby, Dundurn
Rosemary McCracken, Raven Lake, Imajin Books
J.A. Menzies aka Nancy Lindquist, The Case of the Homeless Pup, MurderWillOut Mysteries
Rick Mofina, Before Sunrise, Overdrive-self-published
John Moss, The Girl in the Coma, The Poisoned Pencil/PPP
Jim Napier, Legacy, Friesen Press
John Oughton, Death by Triangulation, Neopoiesis
Kathy Prairie, Thirst, Stonedrift Press
Judy Penz Sheluk, Skeletons in the Attic: A Marketville Mystery, Imajin Books
James Wigmore, The Abridged Wigmore on Alcohol. Courtroom Alcohol Toxicology for the Medicolegal Professional, Irwin Law
Linda Wiken aka Erika Chase, Toasting Up Trouble, Berkley Prime Crime (PRH)
Melissa Yuan-Innes, Stockholm Syndrome, Olo Books
Author Signings
Thursday |
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| 9:00 AM | Ashley Barron, Up! How Families Around the World Carry Their Little Ones | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 9:00 AM | Susan Hughes, Up! How Families Around the World Carry Their Little Ones | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 9:30 AM | Tyler Clark Burke, Bill Bowerbird and the Unbearable Beak-Ache | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 10:00 AM | Susan Currie, The Mask That Sang | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 10:00 AM | Jan Dolby, Gabby: Wonder Girl | Fitzhenry & Whiteside #221 |
| 10:00 AM | Joyce Grant, Gabby: Wonder Girl | Fitzhenry & Whiteside #221 |
| 10:00 AM | E. K. Johnston, Spindle & Star Wars Ahsoka | Canadian Manda Group #215/217 |
| 10:00 AM | Kyo Maclear, The Wish Tree | Raincoast Books #417/419 |
| 10:00 AM | Jennifer McGrath, The Snow Knows | Nimbus Publishing Ltd #430 |
| 10:00 AM | Joe Ollmann, The Abominable Mr. Seabrook | Drawn & Quarterly #316 |
| 10:00 AM | Eric Orchard, Bera the One-Headed Troll | Raincoast Books #417/419 |
| 10:00 AM | Kristina Rutherford, Level the Playing Field | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 10:00 AM | Mark Sampson, The Slip | Dundurn #428 |
| 10:00 AM | Richard Scarsbrook, Rockets vs. Gravity | Dundurn #428 |
| 10:00 AM | Emil Sher, Mittens to Share | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 10:00 AM | Leslie Shimotakahara, After the Bloom | Dundurn #428 |
| 11:00 AM | Steve Barwin, Trap Jam | James Lorimer & Company #522 |
| 10:30 AM | Paul Covello, Canada ABC | HarperCollins Canada #732/734 |
| 10:30 AM | Natasha Deen, Lark Holds The Key / Across the Floor | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 10:30 AM | Kathleen Gould Lundy, Conquering the Crowded Curriculum | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 10:30 AM | Riel Nason, All the Things We Leave Behind | Literary Press Group of Canada #332 |
| 10:30 AM | Jane Ozkowski, Watching Traffic | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 11:00 AM | Rona Arato, The Ship to Nowhere: On Board the Exodus | Second Story Press #416 |
| 11:00 AM | Helaine Becker, Deck the Halls: A Canadian Christmas Carol | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 11:00 AM | Crystal Clarke, The Anxiety Workbook for Kids | Raincoast Books #417/419 |
| 11:00 AM | Joyce Grant, Tagged Out | James Lorimer & Company #522 |
| 11:00 AM | Terry Lynn Johnson, Overboard! (Survivor Diaries) | Raincoast Books #417/419 |
| 11:00 AM | Monica Kulling, Mary Anning’s Curiosity | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 11:00 AM | Benjamin Ludwig, The Original Ginny Moon | Harlequin Books #730 |
| 11:00 AM | Kathy Middleton, Canada’s 150th Birthday | Crabtree Publishing Company #223/225 |
| 11:00 AM | Laura Scandiffio, Fight to Learn: The Struggle to Go To School | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 11:00 AM | Rina Singh, Diwali: Festival of Lights | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 11:00 AM | Werner Zimmermann, Deck the Halls: A Canadian Christmas Carol | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 11:30 AM | Dave Atkinson, Cure for Wereduck | Nimbus Publishing Ltd #430 |
| 11:30 AM | Steve Burrows, A Siege of Bitterns | Dundurn #428 |
| 11:30 AM | Brenda Chapman, Shallow End | Dundurn #428 |
| 11:30 AM | Kathryn Cole, A Tattle-Tell Tale | Second Story Press #416 |
| 11:30 AM | Suzanne Kingsmill, Crazy Dead | Dundurn #428 |
| 11:30 AM | Mark Kingwell, Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 11:30 AM | Qin Leng, A Tattle-Tell Tale | Second Story Press #416 |
| 11:30 AM | Jeff Szpirglas, Wild Cards | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 11:30 AM | Heather Tucker, The Clay Girl | Canadian Manda Group #215/217 |
| 12:00 PM | Ann Birch, The Secret Life of Roberta Greaves | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 12:00 PM | Michael Clarkson, Age of Daredevils | Thomas Allen & Son Limited #318/320 |
| 12:00 PM | Brian Deines, Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 12:00 PM | Emma Donoghue, The Lotterys Plus One | HarperCollins Canada #732/734 |
| 12:00 PM | Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 12:00 PM | Sarah Raughley, Fate of Flames | Simon & Schuster Canada #605/607 |
| 12:00 PM | David Skuy, Ice Time | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 12:00 PM | Pam Withers, Bungee Jump | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 12:30 PM | Mary Frances Coady, Holy Rule | Literary Press Group of Canada #332 |
| 12:30 PM | Shalta Dicaire Fardin, Good Girls | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 12:30 PM | Mary Fiore, The Four Roles of the Numerate Learner | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 12:30 PM | Danah Khalil, My Demon’s Name is Ed | Second Story Press #416 |
| 12:30 PM | Marialuisa Lebar, The Four Roles of the Numerate Learner | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 12:30 PM | Martha Brack Martin, River Traffic | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 12:30 PM | Sarah Sahagian, Good Girls | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 1:00 PM | Paul Benedetti, You Can Have a Dog When I’m Dead | Dundurn #428 |
| 1:00 PM | Laura Best, Cammie Takes Flight | Nimbus Publishing Ltd #430 |
| 1:00 PM | Arthur Biyarslanov, Next Round: A Young Athlete’s Journey to Gold | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 1:00 PM | Anne Dublin, 44 Hours or Strike! | Second Story Press #416 |
| 1:00 PM | Jenny Dupuis, I am not a Number | Goodminds.com #121/123/td> |
| 1:00 PM | Alma Fullerton, When the Rain Comes | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 1:00 PM | Sue Irwin, Safety Stars | James Lorimer & Company #522 |
| 1:00 PM | Joe Ollmann, The Abominable Mr. Seabrook | Drawn & Quarterly #316 |
| 1:00 PM | Alexandra Shimo, Invisible North | Dundurn #428 |
| 1:00 PM | John Spray, Next Round: A Young Athlete’s Journey to Gold | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 1:00 PM | Ted Staunton, Bounced | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 1:00 PM | L.E. Sterling, True North | Raincoast Books #417/419 |
| 1:00 PM | Eric Walters, Jungle Land / Batcat and the Seven Squirrels | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 1:30 PM | Patrick Crowe, Susanna Moodie: Roughing It In the Bush | Second Story Press #416 |
| 1:30 PM | Jennifer Robson, Goodnight From London | HarperCollins Canada #732/734 |
| 1:30 PM | Moez Surani, Operations | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 1:30 PM | M.K. Tod, Time & Regret | Thomas Allen & Son Limited #318/320 |
| 1:45 PM | Sigmund Brouwer, Barracuda / Billboard Express | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 2:00 PM | Madeline Ashby, Company Town | Raincoast Books #417/419 |
| 2:00 PM | Michael Deforge, Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero | Drawn & Quarterly #316 |
| 2:00 PM | Brian Deines, The Vimy Oaks: A Journey to Peace | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 2:00 PM | Linda Granfield, The Vimy Oaks: A Journey to Peace | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 2:00 PM | Andrew Kaufman, Small Claims | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 2:00 PM | Dirk McLean, Team Fugee | James Lorimer & Company #522 |
| 2:00 PM | Jim Sanderson, Toronto Island Summers | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 2:00 PM | Jillian Tamaki, Boundless | Drawn & Quarterly #316 |
| 2:30 PM | Helaine Becker, You Can Read / Let Sleeping Dogs Lie | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 2:30 PM | Pam Jenoff, The Orphan’s Tale | Harlequin Books #730 |
| 2:30 PM | Dirk McLean, Team Fugee | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 2:30 PM | David Skuy, The Starting Eleven | James Lorimer & Company #522 |
| 2:30 PM | Kilby Smith-McGregor, Kids in Triage | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 3:00 PM | Sajidah Ali, Saints, Misfits, Monsters and Mayhem | Simon & Schuster Canada #605/607 |
| 3:00 PM | James Bow, Icarus Down | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 3:00 PM | Matt Cahill, The Society of Experience | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 3:00 PM | David Skuy, The Starting Eleven | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 3:30 PM | Julie Cameron Gray, Lady Crawford | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 3:30 PM | Jeremy Grimaldi, A Daughter’s Deadly Deception | Dundurn #428 |
| 3:30 PM | John Nyman, Players | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 4:00 PM | Mark Sampson, Weathervane | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 4:00 PM | Jamie Tennant, The Captain of Kinnoull Hill | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
Friday |
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| 9:00 AM | David Booth, Literacy 101 | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 9:00 AM | Jan Thornhill, The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 9:15 AM | Kevin Sands, Mark of the Plague | Simon & Schuster Canada #605/607 |
| 9:30 AM | Larry Swartz, This Is a Great Book | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 9:30 AM | Jan Thornhill, I Am Josephine | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 9:45 AM | Liam O’Donnell, Tank & Fizz: The Case of the Battling Bots | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 10:00 AM | Elly Blake, Frostblood | Canadian Manda Group #215/217 |
| 10:00 AM | Chester Brown, Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus | Drawn & Quarterly #316 |
| 10:00 AM | Karma Brown, In This Moment | Harlequin Books #730 |
| 10:00 AM | Marina Cohen, The Doll’s Eye | Raincoast Books #417/419 |
| 10:00 AM | Philippa Dowding, Everton Miles is Stranger Than Me | Dundurn #428 |
| 10:00 AM | Melody Fitzpatrick, In Over Her Head | Dundurn #428 |
| 10:00 AM | Anna Humphrey, Clara Humble and the Not-So-Super Powers | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 10:00 AM | Jess Keating, Shark Lady | Raincoast Books #417/419 |
| 10:00 AM | Sylvia McNicoll, The Best Mistake Mystery | Dundurn #428 |
| 10:00 AM | Lorna Schultz Nicholson, Superhero Ninja Wrestling Star | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 10:00 AM | Freida Wishinsky, Survival: Ice Storm! | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 10:15 AM | Lisa Dalrymple, Double Trouble at the Rooms | Literary Press Group of Canada #332 |
| 10:15 AM | Jeff Lemire, Roughneck | Simon & Schuster Canada #605/607 |
| 10:30 AM | Ella Burakowski, Hidden Gold | Second Story Press #416 |
| 10:30 AM | Vicki Grant, Short for Chameleon | HarperCollins Canada #732/734 |
| 10:30 AM | Natalie Hyde, Stay Silent | Fitzhenry & Whiteside #221 |
| 10:30 AM | Tasha Nathan, Follow Your Heart | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 10:30 AM | Lorna Schultz Nicholson, Superhero Ninja Wrestling Star | James Lorimer & Company #522 |
| 10:30 AM | Robin Stevenson, Pride / Under Threat | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 10:30 AM | Heidi Stoddart, Sea Glass Summer | Nimbus Publishing Ltd #430 |
| 11:00 AM | Alex A, Jon Le Bon series | Georgetown Publications #714 |
| 11:00 AM | Shane Arbuthnott, Dominion | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 11:00 AM | Kady Cross, Vigilante | Harlequin Books #730 |
| 11:00 AM | Loredana Cunti, To Burp or Not to Burp: A Guide to Your Body in Space | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 11:00 AM | A.M. Dellamonica, The Nature of a Pirate | Raincoast Books #417/419 |
| 11:00 AM | Wallace Edwards, What Is Peace? | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 11:00 AM | Molly Peacock, The Analyst | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 11:00 AM | Gisela Sherman, The Farmerettes | Second Story Press #416 |
| 11:00 AM | Dr. Dave Williams, To Burp or Not to Burp: A Guide to Your Body in Space | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 11:00 AM | Robert Charles Wilson, Last Year | Raincoast Books #417/419 |
| 11:15 AM | Lorna Schultz Nicholson, Bent Not Broken | Fitzhenry & Whiteside #221 |
| 11:30 AM | Suzanne Del Rizzo, My Beautiful Birds | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 11:30 AM | Jenny Kay Dupuis, I Am Not a Number | Second Story Press #416 |
| 11:30 AM | Ian Hamilton, The Couturier of Milan | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 11:30 AM | Kathy Kacer, I Am Not a Number | Second Story Press #416 |
| 11:30 AM | Casey Lyall, Howard Wallace, P. I. | Canadian Manda Group #215/217 |
| 11:30 AM | Jeff Ross, High Note / A Dark Truth | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 12:00 PM | Melodie Campbell, The Bootlegger’s Goddaughter / The Goddaughter Caper | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 12:00 PM | Melanie Florence, Missing Nimâmâ | Fitzhenry & Whiteside #221 |
| 12:00 PM | Toko Hosoya, 1,2,3 Sea Creatures | Thomas Allen & Son Limited #318/320 |
| 12:00 PM | Lesley Livingston, The Valiant | HarperCollins Canada #732/734 |
| 12:00 PM | Nicole Lundrigan, The Substitute | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 12:00 PM | Andrew Pyper, The Only Child | Simon & Schuster Canada #605/607 |
| 12:00 PM | Robert Rayner, Black Water Rising | Nimbus Publishing Ltd #430 |
| 12:00 PM | Malcolm Sutton, Job Shadowing | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 12:00 PM | Jonathan Webb, I Am Canada: Sniper Fire | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 12:30 PM | Helaine Becker, Our Great Prime Ministers | DK Canada #421 |
| 12:30 PM | Rick Blechta, Rundown | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 12:30 PM | Vicki Delany aka Eva Gates,, Elementary, She Read | Canadian Manda Group #215/217 |
| 12:30 PM | Rebecca North, Picnic at the Lighthouse | Literary Press Group of Canada #332 |
| 12:30 PM | Caroline Stellings, Freedom’s Just Another Word | Second Story Press #416 |
| 12:30 PM | Joel Sutherland, Summers End | Library Bound Inc #329/331 |
| 12:30 PM | Kate Sutherland, How to Draw a Rhinoceros | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 12:30 PM | Kari-Lynn Winters, French Toast | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 1:00 PM | Patrizia Albanese, Growing Up in Armyville: Canada’s Military Families during the Afghanistan Mission | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 1:00 PM | Holly Bennett, Drawn Away | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 1:00 PM | Alan Daniel, The Story of Canada | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 1:00 PM | Jenny Dupuis, I am not a Number | Goodminds.com #121/123/td> |
| 1:00 PM | Deborah Harrison, Growing Up in Armyville | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 1:00 PM | Christina Kilbourne, Detached | Dundurn #428 |
| 1:00 PM | Deb Loughead, The Secrets We Keep | Dundurn #428 |
| 1:00 PM | Dave Miller, Eight-Wheeled Freedom | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 1:00 PM | Christopher Moore, The Story of Canada | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 1:00 PM | Mary Jennifer Payne, Finding Jade | Dundurn #428 |
| 11:00 AM | Robert Rayner, Riot School | James Lorimer & Company #522 |
| 1:00 PM | Rick Revelle, Algonquin Sunset | Dundurn #428 |
| 1:30 PM | Steve Barwin, Desert Slam | Orca Book Publishers #410/412 |
| 1:30 PM | Melanie Florence, Rez Runaway | James Lorimer & Company #522 |
| 1:30 PM | Elise Gravel, Olga and the Smelly Thing From Nowhere | HarperCollins Canada #732/734 |
| 1:30 PM | Elizabeth Gillan Muir, Air-Crazy : Fascinating stories of Canadian women in the air / Libres comme l’air : Histoires fascinantes des pionnières de l’aviation canadienne | Another Chapter Publishing #Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 1:30 PM | Johnnie Walker, Redheaded Stepchild | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 2:00 PM | John Choi, Dark Side | James Lorimer & Company #522 |
| 2:00 PM | Melanie Florence, Zero Future AND Rez Runaway | Ontario Indie Pavilion |
| 2:00 PM | Kari-Lynn Winters, Let’s Play a Hockey Game! | Scholastic Canada Ltd #211/213 |
| 2:30 PM | John Choi, Dark Side | Ontario Indie Pavilion |