I am going to have the challenge run from Saturday, June 20 to Wednesday, July 1. That means there will be 12 releasing days as there was last year. This year’s challenge is dedicated to Gabrielle Roy who was born in St. Boniface 100 years ago. There will be extra points awarded for any of her books released for the challenge. And there will also be extra points for any books that have aboriginal themes which are released on June 21 which is National Aboriginal Day in Canada. There is a very nice bookmark that you can use in your books if you like.

Last year there were 687 books released. Can we do better this year? I hope so.

The rules are as follows:
1. Books written by Canadian citizens or landed immigrants count. (If you want a good resource for Canadian books check out this Wikipedia article .)

2. Books set in Canada even if they are not written by Canadians count
These Kathy Reichs’ books count:
Deja Dead
Death du Jour
Deadly Decisions
Monday Mourning
Cross Bones
Bones to Ashes

3. Books must be wild-released but I will allow OBCZ releases as well.

4. Anyone anywhere in the world can join and there will be prizes for both Canadians and non-Canadians.

5. There will be prizes distributed as follows:
a)Prize for most books released in Canada
b)Prize for the most books released outside of Canada
c)Prize for best release location
d)Prize drawn at random from the Canadian participants
e)Prize drawn at random from the non-Canadian participants
f)Prize drawn one month after end of challenge for best catch
g)Some just because prizes