Novel marathons
Of ARCs and Aliens
Friday, February 19th, 2010It’s been a busy writing week with lots to report. Hence the utter lack of blog updates. When things are happening, I find it hard to make time to write about it, thus my news here tends to be sadly outdated. Anyone else find that difficult when blogging?
Public Reading–yikes!
One not-yet-outdated announcement: I’ll be reading from [...]
So Very Behind…
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009I haven’t updated in ages. The past month or two has been crazy-busy, writing-wise.
My revisions on Boarder Patrol were due October 31. There wasn’t that much to change, but some of what needed fixing took some thought. Since the book is under contract, I didn’t feel right working on anything else until I had that [...]
Novel Marathon Wrap-Up
Friday, October 16th, 2009My friend Susan and I are heading up north this weekend for the Muskoka Novel Marathon wrap-up on Sunday. We’ll make a weekend of it, taking Brian Henry’s writing class in Gravenhurst on the way up on Saturday.
We’re spending the night at my parents’ cottage, which at this time of year is rather chilly and [...]
Muskoka Novel Marathon 2009
Friday, July 24th, 2009I joined in the Muskoka Novel Marathon again this year, one of my favourite writing events. It’s a fundraiser for the Muskoka Literacy Council, run by the wonderful Susan Lowe.
I wrote a children’s novel this year; just under 25,000 words in 3 days. Crazy. Obviously it’s going to need a lot of work (when I [...]
Why I like novel marathons
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008ate Monday night, I got back from the Muskoka Novel Marathon. Very late, by my wimpy standards, and I have to admit my friend Anne Louise and I were a bit punchy to be taking on that kind of a drive, after writing for the better part of three days.