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Ottawa Festival: Five by Five
I returned from the amazing Ottawa Writers’ Festival this weekend, after warping young minds across Kanata, Barhaven and Nepean. The Festival staff and organizers are so kind, helpful and generous. An especially big thanks to Leslie Wilson, who organized my school visits, and to the volunteers who drove me around: Lee-Anne Boudreau, Norm McLeod and [...]
Volume One Project at Small Print Toronto
Want to create your own spooky stories this Halloween? If you’re a child, you should sign up for the Volume One Project happening on October 30. (And if you’re an adult, good luck with those spooky stories.) The VOLUME ONE PROJECT is a writing workshop series that showcases new works of fiction for the 8-to-12 [...]
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Divergent Opinions on Divergent
As the newly minted writer of a young adult novel (or middle readers’ novel … whatever), I’ve been doing a lot more reading in the YA genre of late. I’ve been particularly fascinated and encouraged by the relatively new trend of dystopian scif-fi YA novels featuring female protagonists. I was briefly obsessed with Suzanne Collins’s [...]
Illustrating Librarians
I’m in the midst of approving the proofread and putting the final touches on The Dead Kid Detective Agency, so my blogging is not as frequent as I’d like it to be. But things are looking good for our favourite living-dead union of child detectives. You can even already view the book online at Amazon! [...]
