I arrived in Toronto Thursday afternoon for this weekend’s exclusive pre-release of CLOCKWORK ANGELS: The Novel. I was picked up at the airport with a warm welcome from Erin and Sarah from ECW Press, who took me immediately over to the ECW offices where I signed copies of the book for special accounts and did an interview for Quill & Quire (you can read the interview here.)

That night, at the flagship Chapters store I gave a talk and did the first-ever signing and release for the novel to a nice crowd.

Afterward, I went out with my friend Mark Lefebvre from Kobo for some fine craft beer in Toronto (Mark had done thorough investigation beforehand). Next morning I did some writing, another interview, then took a tour of the Kobo offices before heading off to the FanExpo in the Toronto Convention Center.

At Kobo, with an appropriate wall quote

with Mark Lefebvre at Kobo

In the afternoon I met up with my friend Jonathan Flamm and ECW at the FanExpo, where we got our badges, signed some books at ECW, walked the show floor.  For my formal autographing session I had a lot of fans who brought Star Wars books, X-Files books, Dune books, and especially Clockwork Angels.  I had 15 copies of Resurrection, Inc, and sold all of them (I should have brought more!)

So, it was a long and busy day, time to relax—with a fine celebratory dinner.  The entire staff of ECW joined Neil Peart and me at a fine restaurant to toast the release of what is surely the best steampunk fantasy adventure novelization of a rock album ever!

Clockwork Angels: The Novel will be officially released across the US and Canada on September 1, but as an exclusive I will have copies available at DragonCon next weekend in Atlanta.  The book should be on sale in the UK by the second week of September.

“In a world where I feel so small, I can’t stop thinking big.”