10/17/2025
Ottawa folks (and visitors)!
Today marks the start of Canada's pre-eminent F&SF convention, Can*Con, this year taking place in the heart (arm? leg? spleen?) of Kanata, at the Brookstreet Hotel, 525 Legget Drive, K2K 3G4.
Our own Rachel A. Rosen will be selling copies of both her brilliant debut novel, Cascade, and its equally-brilliant sequel, Blight, as well as lovely octopus jewelry (a sample of which is modelled by Rachel herself in a photo below) and other swag in the vendors' room (which is open even without a convention membership) all weekend.
On Saturday, Rachel will host the Ottawa launch of Blight, in the Founders Room at 5:30 PM, and (in a timey-wimey twist), a book signing in the Newbridge Room at 2:30 PM the same day.
On Sunday at 11:30 AM, she will take part in a panel titled, "One Ring to Bind Them: Writing Metaphors."
This promises to be a fantastic weekend for lovers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, so I hope you'll join Rachel and Canada's SFF community in celebrating the very best the fields have to offer!
Membership info is available at https://www.can-con.org/.
