Category Archives: reading
March 31 | Workshop at Hamilton gritLIT Festival
Later this month, I’m presenting a workshop to the Hamilton gritLIT Festival: ‘The Published Author.’ The gritLit Festival’s annual literary festival, featuring (this spring) Robert Wiersema, Suzette Mayr, Alexi Zentner, Lynn Coady and more. At my workshop, I’ll guide attendees through the mysteries of publication from writing to finding a publisher to editing and promotion. [...]
Dead Kids: Now in Electronic Form
My debut novel for young readers, The Dead Kid Detective Agency, is now available as an ebook. So if you’d rather read about October Schwartz and her corpse friends on a screen than on a page, you can totally do that! Whether you have a Kindle, Kobo, Nook or Sony Reader, we’ve got you covered. [...]
People being too nice to me
It’s been a busy week. Given last night was Halloween (which is my unofficial Christmas, with its potent combo of dressing up and sugar), I’ve been running around from Chapters talk to Indigo signing to workshop to workshop. The Dead Kid Detective Agency is kind of a perfect Halloween book, so I’ve had a lot [...]