I'm happy to announce that John van der Woude's cover design for my book, Drive-by Saviours, has won this year's Judge-a-Book-by-Its-Cover Competition! That's good news for me because the prize is a review by Salty Ink, a wildly popular blog on Atlantic Canadian literature. See the announcement at http://saltyink.com/2010/12/10/chris-benjamins-drive-by-saviours-wins-salty-inks-2010-judge-a-book-by-its-cover-competition/.

Speaking of Salty Ink, it has also selected Drive-by Saviours as on...
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Exciting news all!  Drive-by Saviours has made the Canada Reads longlist of Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade.

And we the people will decide which books make the top 10 list. You only get one vote.

If you want to vote Drive-by Saviours, just go to http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/ and click the circle next to Drive-by Saviours by Chris Benjamin, scroll down and click the vote button.  You have until Nov 7 - but really why wait until Nov 7 what you could do right now?

Btw, he...
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Hi folks,

I'm thrilled to announce the official online launch of the Drive-by Saviours Trailer!  It's a two-minute appetizer to get folks salivating for the novel, which will be released in September. For now, enjoy the scenery:


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Hi folks,

Drive-by Saviours now has a Facebook fan page. Just click http://tinyurl.com/fbdbs and click the "Like" button to join.

Chris

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Roseway Publishing (an imprint of Fernwood Publishing), which is publishing Drive-by Saviours, has put up a web page for the novel.  Click on the Fernwood logo to see it. You can also find an excerpt from the first chapter there.

     


I have also created a myspace page and put up a clip of me reading from the first chapter, and some fusion music my brother created for a trailer we're working on. Click my face to listen:


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