The other day, one of my students, who is ELEVEN blithely informed me that she had borrowed FORBIDDEN by Tabitha Suzuma from the library. I choked a little, blushed purple I’m sure, and as discreetly as I could informed her that the book is VERY explicit. She didn’t seem concerned. She said she’d read until … More Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: YA books for MG readers
This past weekend, when William Hickman found himself in a life threatening situation he did what any terrific teen should, he asked himself “What would Bobby Pendragon do?” William, remembering his fictional hero’s many dangerous escapades, kept himself feet first in the river current and aimed for the bank. He was able to grab onto … More Terrific Teen Tuesday – YA Saves!
My father left me a pair of magic shoes when he died. I had no idea they were magic. I had no idea that I would end up wearing them almost every day. It’s not like I thought about extracting them from his widow (not my mom) along with the cartoon collection, which I got, … More MY FATHER AND HIS MAGIC SHOES
I’m not a huge consumer of writer’s tech tools. I’ve poked at Scrivener and other things. I swore by ScriptThing when I was screen and playwriting. But for prose and poetry, Word for Windows is all I need. So I thought, anyway. To me, writing has always been story telling. I probably spend about 75% … More Your Very Own Robot Editor
Today was a flip flop day. Some of you will know what that means, how important it is. Some won’t. The latter group may never fully understand me, how people consciously or subconsciously struggle with the constraints that “civilization” forces upon them, or what it means to be Canadian. If you don’t understand flip flops … More The Magic of the Printed Book
It’s been a slow reading month for me. I’ve been writing hard though, so that’s my excuse. That said, lots of the reading I’ve done this month has a funny story attached to it, so this Book Tweets post will have a little something extra. So early in the month everyone was talking about 50 … More BOOK Tweets – March 2012
So it was more than a month ago that I had coffee with my friend Jeyn Roberts ostensibly to talk about her book DARK INSIDE. Sadly all we did was talk about other books we both loved, and some that we loved not so much. When we ran out of time I left her with … More YA Author JEYN ROBERTS answers Seven Deadly Questions
With all my musing yesterday about travelling through time and into space I neglected to celebrate the birth of my book WICKET SEASON! Happy Birthday o’ book of mine! Blurb!: Harry is determined to make the cricket team at his new school, but he’ll really have to step up his game. To prove his commitment to … More BOOK BIRTHDAY! WICKET SEASON
Can I tell you how much I love agent and editors “wish-lists”? It’s not because I’m trying to get an agent or editor interested in my work necessarily. I have an agent, Kris Rothstein and HER job is getting editors interested in my work. It’s just fun to get an insight into what other people … More EDITOR AND AGENT WISHLISTS: Be Gruesome. Be Dark. Be Original
So just after I arrived in back in Canada, after fifteen years in Australia and the USA, my husband and I went for dinner with some people he had started playing cricket with. Now I didn’t have very high hopes for the evening, to be honest. The best I could hope for was that they … More Books for Atheist Teens: GODLESS by Pete Hautman
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