Join authors Janice Barrett (Authorized Cruelty), Beverley Brewer (Dance into the Light), and Janet Trull (End of the Line) for their book launch at the Ipochal Imp on Saturday, Oct 21^st 2023 between 3-5 p.m. The authors will discuss their books and read excerpts from within. They will later join emcee Liz Torlée in a discussion and Q&A with the audience about their writing journey and challenges faced.

Cash Bar and Restaurant facilities available. Parking and subway nearby, street level access to venue (no stairs to climb). Signed copies of the books for sale at the event. There is no entrance fee but reservations are advised as capacity is limited. Please click on the link provided to register.

Descriptions of the books:

Authorized Cruelty: An octogenarian, ex- USO entertainer exiled in Canada reflects on her adventures during the Vietnam War when she was inadvertently drawn into a secret military operation that was supposed to change the course of that conflict and which made her a fugitive.

Dance into the Light: What do you do when your parents die, your husband is diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer and your kid sister commits suicide, all around the same time? Find out, in Beverley Brewer’s journey through this valley of darkness and into the light.

End of the Line: Haliburton, Ontario, 1878. The new Victoria Rail Line delivers hundreds of immigrants to the last station in the Northern Townships. Some are wealthy, eager to profit from new opportunities. Most are poor and illiterate. It takes a brutal murder to reveal the worst of human greed and the best of the human heart.