Sylvia Maultash Warsh

Cormorant publisher Marc Cote

2010-06-08T21:44:00.000-07:00

Marc Cote waxing eloquent at the launch

Book Launch for Queen of Unforgetting

2010-06-08T21:02:00.000-07:00

We had a great launch at Ben McNally's Bookstore despite the pouring rain. Publisher Marc Cote set up a tastefully arranged table of fresh fruit, gourmet cheeses and crackers to go with the champagne on ice. Everybody schmoozed and had a good time. John Lasruk took a lot of great pictures.

openbooktoronto.com interview

2010-04-21T17:38:00.000-07:00

Here's a recently posted interview I did with openbooktoronto.com about my new book The Queen of Unforgetting.

http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/
ten_questions_with_sylvia_maultash_warsh

Cormorant Books

2010-04-19T23:18:00.000-07:00

Here's a link to Cormorant Books to see my new book, Queen of Unforgetting:

http://www.cormorantbooks.com

Barbara Kerslake with Northrop Frye and wife Helen at cottage

2010-04-19T22:43:00.000-07:00

Here is a photo my friend Barbara Kerslake was generous enough to share with me. She's about 7 here, Frye considerably younger than most of us think of him. Barbara's grandfather was the well-known artist C.W. Jeffreys. And yes, Barbara's legs are still that long!

Frye is a character in my new book Queen of Unforgetting. My protagonist, the beautiful ambitious grad student, Mel Montrose, persuades him to supervise her thesis. Her area of interest is Jean de Brebeuf, the 17th century Jesuit who came to Huronia, now Simcoe County, to convert the Indians. Much of my story takes place in Midland, Ontario and nearby Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, the reconstructed mission/fort.

2010-04-19T22:36:00.000-07:00

New book is out!

2010-04-19T21:31:00.000-07:00

The Queen of Unforgetting hit the stores last week. Came down to Cormorant Books to pick up my copies and have lunch with publisher Marc Cote on a pretty spring day-- sat out on the patio of a Spadina cafe and exchanged scuttlebutt. The Queen book has a lovely mat cover with French flaps, rich chocolate brown (my daughter said it looked good enough to eat...) Cormorant is faring amazingly well in this economy, recently branched out into poetry and young adult. Must be doing something right.

See preview of Queen of Unforgetting at
http://www.cormorantbooks.com/downloads/excerpts/TheQueenofUnforgetting_excerpt.pdf

proofs are in the pudding

2010-01-20T23:13:00.000-08:00

I'm one of those people who doesn't believe something will happen until it happens. When I'm working on a book, I don't believe I will finish until I actually write the last page. Despite months of final revisions, copy-editing, deciding on a cover, etc., it wasn't until I saw the lovely proofs of Queen of Unforgetting last week that I really believed the book will see the light of day. Is it a failure of imagination? My constant irrational pessimism despite all evidence to the contrary? Whatever. I went through the proofs with a fine tooth comb, then sent my notes back to my editor. My job is done.

2006-05-31T22:24:00.000-07:00

Kim Moritsugu and I launch our new novels, The Restoration of Emily, and Season of Iron. Here we are reading to a full house at David Mirvish Books in Toronto last Sunday.

2006-05-31T22:21:00.000-07:00

Husband Dr. Jerry Warsh, and I at the launch of my third Rebecca Temple book, Season of Iron, at David Mirvish Books, Sunday May 28th, 2006.

2006-05-31T22:16:00.000-07:00

That's publisher, Kirk Howard, on my left, and my friend, Dr. Herb Batt, on my right at the launch of Season of Iron at David Mirvish Books, Sunday May 28th, 2006. In the left foreground, Kim Moritsugu, my launch partner, whose fourth book, The Restoration of Emily, was recently published.

2006-05-31T22:12:00.000-07:00

My agent, John Pearce, and I, in a huddle during the launch of my third book in the Rebecca Temple series, Season of Iron.
Behind us are Dundurn publisher Kirk Howard and editor Michael Carroll.

2006-05-31T22:06:00.000-07:00

Kim Moritsugu and I launch our new novels at Mirvish Books, a magnificent Toronto book store that incorporates a former art gallery.

Launch at David Mirvish Books

2006-05-31T21:57:00.000-07:00

Maureen Jennings dropped into my launch at David Mirvish Books in Toronto. I launched Season of Iron on Sunday May 28th, 2006, together with Kim Moritsugu, who launched her fourth book, The Restoration of Emily. We had a great turnout and served cheese, fruit, and Stilton shortbread.

The Kurfurstendamm, Berlin

2006-03-12T23:09:00.000-08:00

The Kurfurstendamm is Berlin's most popular fashionable street, with exclusive shops and restaurants. In my book, Season of Iron, the Eisenbaums, a Jewish family, run a store in the 1930s which sells exclusive undershirts and underwear. It lies just off the Kurfurstendamm.

Olympic Stadium, Berlin 1936

2006-03-12T23:04:00.000-08:00

This shows the Olympic Stadium in Berlin that the Nazis built for the 1936 Olympics.

The Olympic Stadium in Berlin

2006-03-12T22:47:00.000-08:00

This is the Olympic Stadium in Berlin as it looks today. The stadium was built by the Nazi government for the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin. In my new book, Season of Iron, Frederika Eisenbaum has the unique opportunity, for a Jew, to attend the women's foil fencing match at the 1936 Olympics. The three medal winners were all part-Jewish.

Look for new book

2006-03-01T21:45:00.000-08:00

My new book, Season of Iron, will be published in May 2006. In this 3rd in the Dr. Rebecca Temple series, she tries to help a homeless woman in Toronto in 1979. When the woman is killed, Rebecca finds that nobody is who they appear to be, from a German fencing instructor to an Egyptian physician developing a drug from snake venom. Alternating chapters follow a Jewish family, the Eisenbaums, in 1930s Berlin during the Nazi rise to power. The youngest, Frederika, becomes a doctor against all odds, but as the Nazi grip tightens around the Jews, she loses the right to practice, and is finally sent to a concentration camp. Rebecca’s and Frederika’s stories connect in a startling conclusion.

Queen Elizabeth and her subjects

2005-09-06T15:49:00.000-07:00

A jolly Queen Elizabeth graciously poses with me and Lynne Murphy(on right) at the Sisters in Crime High Tea during Bouchercon 2004 in Toronto

Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams, 18th century British diplomat

2005-09-06T15:25:00.000-07:00

As a diplomat, Sir Charles was posted to Dresden, Berlin and finally, St. Petersburg where he became the go-between for the young lovers Catherine (to become the Great) and Stansislaw Poniatowski. The three historical figures and their story are featured in Find Me Again, published by Dundurn Press in Canada

Stanislaw Poniatowski, the last king of Poland

2005-09-06T15:18:00.000-07:00

Here are 2 pictures of Stanislaw Poniatowski, featured in Find Me Again, one as a young man, one as king of Poland. He was Catherine's lover before she became Empress. She moved on to other lovers, but once she was in power, she used her influence to make him king of Poland.

Catherine the Great featured in Find Me Again

2005-09-06T15:10:00.000-07:00

Here are 2 photos of Catherine the Great, one as a young girl, the other at age 30. In my book, Find Me Again, she is in her mid-twenties, before she became Empress of All the Russias

2005-09-06T15:03:00.000-07:00

Sylvia and Howard Engel, creator of the Benny Cooperman mysteries, at the Crime Writers of Canada banquet, June, 2005, held at the Mysteriously Yours Theatre

18th century map of Europe with Prussia

2005-09-06T13:19:00.000-07:00

This is an 18th century map of the area you will read about in Find Me Again. The three main historical characters in the book are Catherine the Great, her lover, Stanislaw Poniatowski, the last king of Poland, and their friend and go-between, Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams, a British diplomat posted in St. Petersburg, Dresden and Berlin.

Sylvia and Ian Rankin

2005-09-06T12:37:00.000-07:00

Here is a photo of Ian Rankin and me clutching our Edgar awards at the 2004 Mystery Writers of America banquet, taken by Chris Aldrich of Mystery News. Ian won Best Novel for Resurrection Man and I took home the Best Paperwork Original for Find Me Again