Post-Expozine news

Expozine was a huge success! As one of the organizers since its inception in 2002, Louis Rastelli was amazed at how the event’s growth just doesn’t stop from one year to the next. It’s hard to imagine how far it can go, what with endless demands for more space, and the 280 participating small presses, artists and self-publishers coming from more and more different places in Canada, the US, and even from Europe and Australia!

Many people bought A Fine Ending at Expozine; some of them had already read it and were buying copies to give as Christmas presents. All in all, it was a hell of a book fair!

Just in time to (hopefully) kick-start holiday sales of the book, the full review and article about A Fine Ending in the fall/winter Montreal Review of Books is now online here .

Also just in time for the holidays is an updated listing for the novel at www.amazon.ca . We’ve had a lot of trouble getting them to list the details right, as well as the ridiculous estimated shipping time that they indicate (rest assured, it would take a week or two, not months, to get the book from www.amazon.ca !!) If anyone has already read the book and feels like writing a review on its page at www.amazon.ca, it would be GREATLY appreciated!!

Stay tuned to this website in the coming weeks as we add a podcast, photos, more excerpts from the book and a new blog post!

Posted 30 November 2007 ‡

Expozine 2007, plus new links

Louis Rastelli will be signing copies of his novel, A Fine Ending, at Expozine 2007 in Montreal on Saturday, November 24 and Sunday, November 25, 2007, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 5035 St-Dominique (Église Saint-Enfant Jésus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Métro) MAP. Free admission.

In other news, he is interviewed in the Danforth Review regarding his novel and his Fish Piss Magazine. He is also interviewed as part of an article on Montreal’s Mile End district in the Montreal Gazette, which had this to say about A Fine Ending: “Rastelli’s first-person tale of sex, drugs, rock, roll and kittens on the Main, circa the 1990s, is already the talk of the neighbourhood, as his many friends argue over who inspired which particular character.”

Other recent interviews with Louis have appeared in the McGill Daily and the Concordia Link, which has also published a review of his novel (available here.)

He will be interviewed on CKUT Radio on Friday, November 23 between 7 and 8 a.m. on the Friday Morning After show.

A huge article about his novel, A Fine Ending, will soon be available on the website of the Montreal Review of Books.

By the way, the book launch for A Fine Ending was a huge success! A photographer for Montreal’s Nightlife Magazine attended, so photos should be forthcoming. In the meantime, a brief review of the launch is available here.

Finally, keep an eye out on the growing Links page of this here website for more links to past articles, photos and general stuff about Louis Rastelli or his projects!

Posted 13 November 2007 ‡

Launch

A Fine Ending will be launched on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 from 6 to 10 p.m. (followed by special guest DJs) at Casa del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent, Montreal (Laurier metro - Map).

The book will be available at a discount, and you can get the author to sign your copy if you want! The artist who illustrated the book and its cover, Jean-Pierre Chansigaud, will also be on hand and will be selling originals of his beautiful work.

ALSO! There is a very long article about A Fine Ending in today’s Globe and Mail (Quebec edition), in the insert called MRB (Montreal Review of Books). It is an excellent overview of the book, even if they add a few years to my age (I’m not yet 40, I’m only 37!!). The article will be online in a week, at which point I will post a link.

Posted 12 October 2007 ‡