NEW BOOKS 

     Deep Waters 
                    is here! 
 
  This is a hardcover full-sized 
        contemporary fiction.
       Read more about Deep Waters 
  
  Signed copies available directly from 
   the author (dorene@dorenemeyer.com) 

            Order online at www.mcnallyrobinson.com    

      or you may purchase them from a bookstore near you:  
            Winnipeg, MB: Hull's Family Bookstores
            Winnipeg, MB: McNally Robinson Booksellers
            Kenora, ON: HoJoe's Coffee and Books
            Ear Falls, ON: Bumper to Bumper (bookstore in the back)
            Sioux Lookout, ON: Good News Books 'N" Things 
            
    More bookstores will be added to this list in the new year!  

                            UPCOMING EVENTS
 
 April 5 - panel on topic of self-publishing in Winnipeg, MB
                           (details to follow)

 April 24 - 7:30 PM - reading of new anthology in Winnipeg, MB
              The Voice Behind the Mask  (more details to follow)

 June - reading in Winnipeg (by apprentice - Jason Blundell) with
            Sheldon Oberman Emerging Writers Mentor Program
                    (date and time to be confirmed)
   
  
                           2007 YEAR IN REVIEW

  January 6 - speaking engagement at Manitoba Christian Writers
                      Association: "The Business of Writing"

  January 6 - release of Get Lost! (children's chapter book)

  January 17 - 8-week Creative Writing course begun for St. James
                      Assiniboia Continuing Education in Winnipeg, MB
 
  January 22 - Book launch of Prairie Writers at McNally 
                        Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg, MB
                             (on bestseller list for 2 weeks!)
                                 www.mcnallyrobinson.com 

  January 23 - 8-week Creative Writing course begun for River East
               Transcona Continuing Education in Winnipeg, MB

  January 25 - readings from Prairie Writers at Aqua Books,
                          Winnipeg, MB www.aquabooks.ca 

  January 29 - 8-week Creative Writing Class for Seven Oaks
                          Continuing Education in Winnipeg, MB

  April 18 - 8-week Manuscript Critique course for St.James
                Assiniboia Continuing Education in Winnipeg, MB
 
  April 23 - 6-week The Publishing World course for St. James
                Assiniboia Continuing Education in Winnipeg, MB

  April 27 - awarded travel grant by Manitoba Arts Council 
                    (see travel events below: June 9 - 18)

  May 8 - Reading of Prairie Writers volume 2 at Aqua Books,
                       Winnipeg, MB www.aquabooks.ca 

  May 14 - awarded professional development grant by Winnipeg
        Arts Council (see professional events below: June 9-16)

  May 15 - launch of Prairie Writers volume 2 at McNally 
                    Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg, MB

  June 9 - Interview on the The Drew Marshall Show
             To listen to this interview, you may go to this
      link:  http://www.drewmarshall.ca/listen2007.html#070609   
  The interview is in two parts so be sure to listen to the Dorene
     Meyer interview under "Journey" as well as the talk-back 
      portion: "Have you been sexually abused as a child?"
 
  June 10 and 11 - in Toronto for Book Expo - book signings of
 Colin's Choice (award winner at The Word Guild's 2006 Canadian
 Writing Awards) and Get Lost! (shortlisted for this year's awards).

  June 13 - I was presented with The Word Guild's Canadian 
                  Writing Children's Book Award for Get Lost!
                                at Awards Gala Event 
                                  www.thewordguild.com  

  June 14-16 - faculty at Write! Canada - 3-day writer's conference
                                  www.thewordguild.com 

  June 18 - writer's panel Family Christian Bookstore (Burlington)

  June 21 - elected to board of Manitoba Writers Guild
                                www.mbwriter.mb.ca

  July 9 - launch of  Prairie Writers volume 3 at McNally 
                  Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg, MB
                      (on bestseller list for 2 weeks!)   

  July 11 - reading of Prairie Writers volume 3 at Aqua Books
                    in Winnipeg, MB www.aquabooks.ca                          

  September - moved to Norway House, MB

  November 21 - Ontario launch of Deep Waters at HoJoe's 
                           Coffee and Books in Kenora, Ontario

  November 22 - launch of Deep Waters at McNally Robinson
                                Booksellers, Winnipeg, MB
                                   www.mcnallyrobinson.com
 
  November 24 - author day at Hull's Family Bookstores in
                                          Winnipeg, MB 

  November 26 - began 20-week course with high school students
    at Helen Betty Osborne Ininew Education Resource Centre -
          watch for anthology coming out in May, 2008!  

  December 14 - manuscript for new children's book: Pilot Error
       awarded short-list position for 2007 Annual Canadian Aid
       Literary Award        www.canadianaid.com  
 
 For more info on books or to schedule a workshop or book event
 in your area you can write to me at: dorene@dorenemeyer.com