Category Archives: Dead Kid Detective Agency

Talking Blank Pages and Fashion Choices with the Huffington Post

In other book news, I will (with many, many other authors) be at Trinity Bellwoods Park on Saturday, June 22nd for a Literary Picnic, part of Toronto’s 2013 Luminato Festival. There will be over 60 authors on three stages reading from our recent books and talking about starting to write a story. In addition to [...]

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Festival of Trees Recap

On Wednesday, May 15, and Thursday, May 16, the Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading‘s Festival of Trees dropped down at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, and over two days, thousands of kids from all over the Greater Toronto Area (and even as far as Orillia!) came to cheer on their favourite books on the Forest of [...]

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Traversing the (Near) North

Last week, as part of the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading tour – think of a U.S.O. tour, but with children’s authors and only within Ontario – I travelled to Parry Sound and North Bay with a team of great writers (and one excellent OLA staff member, Meredith). The experience was both surreal and [...]

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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with some Dead Kids

To preview the second book in the Dead Kid Detective Agency series, the fine cast of characters at ECW Press, have produced a series of four dazzling Valentine’s Day cards featuring October and the Dead Kids.
If you’ll be at the OLA Super Conference (see the previous post), you can pick up the cards there. And [...]

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