Fabulous female fiction: Elise Moser and Zoe Whittall - NEW STARTING TIME 7PM

Octopus Books is thrilled to host an evening of fabulous female fiction with Elise Moser and Zoe Whittall, and to celebrate their new novels "Because I Have Loved and Hidden It" and "Holding Still For As Long As Possible". The event takes place on Saturday November 28 at 7.00 pm at the store, 116 Third Ave.
 
Elise Moser
is the author of the novel "Because I Have Loved and Hidden It". Her short stories "Malke's Baby" and "Advanced Pilates Tickle Trunk” have won the CBC/QWF Short Story Competition in 2004 and 2006 respectively. After many years working as a buyer at Paragraphe Bookstore in Montreal, Elise is now familiar to many stores across the country as a sales rep with Lexa Publishers' Representatives. She is also the Literary Editor of The Rover, an electronic independent review of arts and culture. Zoe Whittall
is the author of two novels – “Holding Still For As Long As Possible”, and “Bottle Rocket Hearts”, named one of top 100 books of 2007 in the Globe and Mail and top 15 books in Quill & Quire magazine. She won emerging author of the year in Now Magazine, and the Dayne Ogilvie Award for Best Emerging Gay Writer in Canada. Her poetry books include The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (McG, 01) and The Emily Valentine Poems (Snare, 06) and Precordial Thump (Exile, 08).