What people are saying

"There is a great environmental advantage to this. We can't all be hopping on and off of planes all the time - we all understand this now… It's a fantastic invention."

Best selling British author Kate Mosse

"I was amazed. It was like magic."

Governor General Award and ScotiaBank Giller Prize winner Alice Munro

"I'm delighted that for the publication of The Good Guy I will be in London not just in spirit but in real-time video and audio, with the assistance of a robot hand that will precisely replicate my book inscriptions. This has such a futuristic edge that it feels like a Dr. Who moment!"

Best Selling American author Dean Koontz

"My experience with the Long Pen was a fantastic one… All quite wonderful, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat."

Best selling American author Anita Shreve

"This creates the possibility of an entirely new book promotion event that will inject new life into the marketing of books and authors' relationship with their readers."

Nigel Newton, Bloomsbury Publisher BBC News

"She's written about the future, now Margaret Atwood is shaping it."

The Scotsman

"Like the best technology, LongPen™ was conceived by a user."

ITBusiness.ca

"A perfect example of Canadian can-do."

Telegraph online

"I travel extensively as a writer because meeting fans and booksellers is important (and difficult to accomplish without leaving the house). The LongPen™ provided me with a rare opportunity to relax at home and still connect with fans in a meaningful way."

Patrick Carman

"I began my writing career as a science fiction writer. I never imagined the likes of LongPen™, however. A fantastic, the-future-is-now experience. I loved it."

F. Paul Wilson

"It was strangely intimate...readers got to see a slice of the private me, sitting in the place where I write my books... You certainly wouldn't get that at a normal bookstore signing!...By using [LongPen™] I will be cutting down on carbon emissions, reaching readers I wouldn't otherwise, and giving myself more time to write rather than sitting in airports. Everybody wins....I am a convert now."

Tracy Chevalier, author of The Girl with the Pearl Earring

"LongPen™ is a wonderfully ironic device for a fiction writer. We usually spend time funneling the outside world into our pens. Here, instead, is a chance to fling the written word out into some faraway place."

ScotiaBank Giller Prize Winner Vincent Lam

"Being able to see the people and communicate with them while signing their books long-distance was magical. For the technology itself, I have only praise."

Neil Bissoondath

"From my writing shack deep in the Maine woods, I was able to sign books for the folks at Book Expo America in New York City. With one stroke, LongPen™ has made the book tour obsolete - and good riddance."

Douglas Preston

"LongPen™ is a little miracle of telekinesis. And what a pleasure it is, for writer and reader to meet face-to-face in a cyber-setting that seems to owe at least as much to magic as to technology. It really is as good as being there."

ScotiaBank Giller Prize Nominee Carol Windley

"The LongPen™ Experience was a great way to be in contact with readers."

ScotiaBank Giller Prize Nominee Pascale Quiviger

"I was delighted by the unexpected intimacy of the talk I had with people at the other end. It was not only focused, but also a surprisingly personal encounter."

Graeme Gibson

"It was a thrill to be able to sit and in a London office and chat with Canadian readers in such an informal way - not to mention being able to sign their books long distance. The technology, whilst being impressive (nobody could take their eyes of the robot arm as it was duplicating my signature), was not obtrusive at all."

Linda Buckley-Archer