Ann Towell launched her  YA novel Grease Town (Tundra Books) on March 6, at the Oil Museum of Canada in Oil Springs, Ontario. Furthermore, oil. (Photo by Larry Towell/Magnum/Courtesy of Tundra Books)

Chantal Simmons launched her new novel, Love Struck (Key Porter Books), on March 4 at Mark Burstyn Photography Studio at an event co-sponsored by Key Porter, Centennial, and Barefoot Wines. Flanking the befrocked Simmons (who is displaying the classic “three-fingered novel grip”) are Key Porter publicist Kelly Ward and vice-president of marketing Tom Best. (Photo by David Cuthbertson of DC Photography/Courtesy of Key Porter Books)

Stuart Ross braved both the cold and a MacGyver-esque approach to microphone technology at the Feb. 27 Parliament Hill launch for Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament (Mansfield Press), co-edited by Stephen Brockwell and Ross himself. (Photo by Pearl Pirie)