Once again it has been a busy week, with our authors receiving award nominations and getting some awesome media attention and our staff keeping busy both in the office and overseas at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Speaking of Frankfurt, check out our booth, doesn't it look great? That's our VP Beth Bruder between appointments, surrounded by Dundurn books and posters. Beth and our Director of Sales and Marketing, Margaret Bryant, are keeping very busy meeting with publishers, rights agents, and book sellers from around the world.  

On to the highlights from this side of the pond! Have you heard about the ghosts of Dundurn? Dundurn Castle, that is, hopefully there isn't an office ghost I don't know about! If you dare, you can learn all about the ghosts of Dundurn Castle and other Steeltown shivers in Mark Leslie’s Haunted Hamilton, which was nominated for the Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award for Non-fiction this week.

The award ceremony will be held on November 12th at Theatre Aquarius, 7:00pm, and it is free and open to the public. Ghosts are welcome too. 

In media coverage news, it has been an especially busy week for Steve Paikin and Paikin and the Premiers. The Toronto Star ran a review of the book on Saturday, and stated that it "should be required reading for anyone interested in this province's modern political history."  He was interviewed on Global TV's morning show on September 26th. On September 27th, Paikin was interviewed on CFRB1010's John Tory Show and then on the 30th he was interviewed on CJBK AM 1290’s London@Large show and CKGL570 AM's Gary Doyle show. He could also be heard on CBC Radio's All Points North show on October 1st, available here if you missed it, as well as The Motts on CKTB AM 610.

Intrigued by the idea of personal reflections on Ontario politicians? Steve Paikin will be signing books at Chapters Oshawa this Saturday beginning at 2pm. He will also be reading at an IFOA event in Burlington on the 21st, more information and an interview with Paikin about the event is available from OpenBook Ontario here. 

Have you read Projection yet? CBCbooks has an excerpt (wittily titled 'How She Met Her Mother') that will get you hooked. Author Priscila Uppal has been receiving lots of buzz following the recent nomination of Projection for the Governor General's Award, including an interview with the Ottawa Citizen in which she talks about the challenges of bringing her fiction and poetry skills to a non-fiction memoir on such a personal topic. 

Sean Kelly's Metal on Ice was featured on BraveWords.com and MusicExpress.ca this week, including this review from Brighton Rock guitarist Greg Fraser:

"Just finished reading the Sean Kelly book Metal on Ice. For those of you who are fans of Canadian '80s rock this is a real page turner. Growing up, Sean was a real fan of Canadian bands like CONEY HATCH, Brighton Rock, HONEYMOON SUITE, HAREM SCAREM, KILLER DWARFS, HELIX, etc. and wrote this book about how it influenced his life. The book is filled with great interviews and road stories and fond (and not so fond!) memories of the '80s and early '90s Canadian Rock scene. Highly recommended!"

Confession time: this intern can't wait to read Barrett Fuller's Secret by Scott Carter. I got to go to the launch two weeks ago and between that and the consistently intriguing reviews, the book is definitely at the top of my ever-growing 'to be read' list. This week it was reviewed in Friday's Globe and Mail, and tell me that this doesn't make you put it on your reading list, too: 

"How much of him/herself does a writer put into a story? In the case of famed children's author Barrett Fuller, extremely little. So little, in fact, that he writes under a pseudonym so that fans (and their parents) won't know he's a narcissistic womanizer with a serious drug problem. Then one day, someone discovers his secret and sends him a letter: Live up to your imaginary morality or else... This is the terrific premise of Scott Carter's second novel and it's even better than Blind Luck, his excellent debut."   

Carter was also featured in an OpenBook Toronto Proust Questionnaire this week, where you can find out intresting tidbits like the author's influences, motivations, and... favourite flower? 

On a more serious note, Scientific Parenting authors Nicole Letourneau and Justin Joschko had a fascinating article in the Guelph Mercury this week on post-partum depression's effects on family members beyond the mother while What Every Parent Should Know about School's Michael Reist was featured in a Napanee Guide column on educating boys. Phil Edmonston, of The Art of Complaining, gave advice on consumer action on CFAX's the Terry Moore Show on October 1st and CJOB's Nighthawk on October 8th. 

J-Source.ca reviewed Michael Maclear's Guerrilla Nation on October 7th and remarked that: "With all its lies and misinformation, the history of the undeclared Vietnam War might well be different were it not for Michael Maclear . . . Guerrilla Nation transports the reader to the bombed-out ruins, the fields of bodies and the nothingness of a terrain battered daily for years by American bombs from the sky." The full review is available here.

Well, those are the highlights from this week at Dundurn. If you haven't already, be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for all the latest news.