Kenneth Tam’s tour of Chapters stores in Southwestern Ontario wrapped up on Saturday with a successful visit to Chapters South London. Following the same pattern as the visits to Ancaster and Guelph earlier in May, yesterday’s event met with interest from both young adult and adult readers, and drew discussions of subjects ranging from Science […]
Kenneth Tam kicked off his May tour of southwestern Ontario Chapters stores on Friday evening with an event in Kitchener. Signing copies and talking with interested customers about both the story of The Human Equation and his writing methods, Kenneth mirrored the success of his event last Februrary with Chapters Waterloo. The Human Equation, the […]
Following a successful book event with Chapters Waterloo last February, Kenneth Tam has been scheduled to appear at four Chapters stores around southern Ontario this May. The dates for his visits are as follows: Chapters Kitchener on May 7, Chapters Guelph on May 15, Chapters Ancaster on May 16, and Chapters South London on May […]
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 […]