Edited by author 10-06-2005 05:41 PM
The bar guarantee at the Victory (i.e. the Art Bar) is very reasonable compared to other establishments. I've never heard of an event there where the minimum wasn't met.

I'm hosting a launch for Insomniac Press there tomorrow night (see Shameless Self-promotion posting), and I've always found it to be a great venue to work with.

I'm just going to repeat Paul's query as to good venues for a book launch as I have to organize one next spring. I did my last at Nicholas Hoare, a place I love, but it was a Sunday afternoon and the audience was, shall we say, select. As in few. The advantage was that I could bring all my own food and wine and we were surrounded by beautiful books. At the Art Bar you have to guarantee a certain take at the actual bar and if your guests don't drink enough, you have to pay the balance! SO you are not only asking them to pay for their own drinks, you could still be paying for the drinks they don't drink.

Is there any consensus as to whether week night or weekend matinee is preferable?

Do people feel put upon having to buy their own drinks at an event where they are also expected to fork over for a book?

All comments invited!

Thanks,

Susan

Only in the world according to BoingBoing

Cory Doctorow, the sci-fi author and blogger, will be having a virtual book launch for his next book, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, "in" the world of Second Life -- a massively multi player gaming environment in which players can not only assume alter egos, but can actually "own" property, items, and money, and design and build the world around them. Some players have helped create an environment for his launch and are working on an Doctorow avatar. Let's hope they get the glasses and copyright outrage down.


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Never heard of it.

It is so satisfying to generate discussion on the Bookninja boards. Really, deep-down good.

And we've sung Kenny Rogers in the can there!

Yet, you do like it there.

You might not remember but you've been thrown out of the place before.

Yeah Paul, do you know the place?

Paul, in case you're unfamiliar with the venue, it's on Markham St. near Honest Ed's.

Edited by author 01-22-2005 08:44 PM
Victory Cafe? Upstairs in the Art Bar part?

Hey everyone,

I need ideas for a nice place to have a book launch in Toronto in April. Any suggestions?

Paul

Party on!

The Guardian examines literary parties in a very fun article.

There is nothing like impending doom to add pep to one's festivities and there is a kind of party whose carousers seem on the brink of disaster. (When you come to a chapter in DH Lawrence's Women in Love entitled "Water-Party", you can be fairly sure that it will conclude in tragedy.) Within the breast of every writer beats the heart of a moralist and in literature really smashing parties tend to come before the fall, the deluge, the end of all things. Vanitas vanitatis. Or carpe diem. Take your pick.

And then there was the time I danced to Mama Mia by Abba with Christian Bok.



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"I thought so much about the ways we were different. If somebody gave me a bottle of codeine and it said, take one every eight hours, I would take one every eight hours. I do what I'm told. And Lucy would take one every 20 minutes, you know? She would see what she could get out of the codeine, and I mean that metaphorically as well as literally."

I like it when the NYT does gossip column. So classy and tear-filled. And poets make appearances... Take THAT Page 6! (It's like that page of pictures in the Quill, but with important people...)



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Or am I just missing the joke again? Sigh. Maybe it's time for bed.

BN! You need a copy editor! I was expecting this to be about Sandra Bernhardt.