News and a Guest Post
Sunday, June 12th, 2011My guest post on Janice Hardy’s blog will be up Tuesday. I’m very excited about it! She asked me to write something on writing for the reluctant reader market. (Update: You can read the post here.) Lots going on in my writing life right now. This Friday, I’m heading out to a local school to [...]
Scribbling Women: Interview with Marthe Jocelyn
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011Today’s blog post is officially part of Marthe Jocelyn’s Scribbling Women book tour. That means that anyone who comments on it gets entered into a draw by Tundra Books to win a complete set of Marthe’s books! You can find more information, and a list of the other participating blogs, here. The first time I [...]
Scribbling Women: who inspired you to write?
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011Last week I asked some of my favourite female children’s writers if there were any “scribbling women” (authors or otherwise) who inspired them to write. We’ll start with Marthe Jocelyn. Tomorrow I’ll be posting an interview with her, so this is a preview. The question: Are there any “scribbling women” (in your book, but especially [...]
Book Launches
Thursday, June 24th, 2010This is book launch week! Last Tuesday was the launch of “Writescape: Inspiration Station“, a book of writing exercises put together by my friends and writing group partners Ruth Walker and Gwynn Scheltema. The writing exercise book came about as a result of the successful Writescape Writing Retreats that Ruth and Gwynn run twice a year. [...]