The general rule when it comes to readings at book launches is that they should last no more than 10-15 minutes. But when the person doing the reading is a gifted 19-year-old who transports his audience from their plastic chairs in a high school library to a boardroom on a space fleet’s flagship, that rule […]
Nineteen-year-old Kenneth Tam, a second-year, full-time Honors History student at Wilfrid Laurier University, is going back to high school. But this time he won’t be attending classes; instead Tam will be launching his first science fiction novel, The Human Equation, in the the school library. Penned before he finished grade 10, the novel is the […]
More than 100 people braved the winter conditions on January 23, 2003 to gather at Land Rover of Newfoundland for that province’s launch of Standing Tall: A Daughter’s Gift. “It’s hard to describe how special the evening was,” Tam says, “or how much I appreciate the fact that so many people came out on a […]
When trying to decide on a location for the Newfoundland launch of her first non-fiction book, Jacqui (Barron) Tam and her Iceberg Publishing team looked at all the typical places. But it wasn’t until a friend suggested the local Land Rover dealership that she felt they’d found the perfect spot. Tam, who will be in […]