In honor of my upcoming book, WICKET SEASON, which features Harrison Ambrose, a cricket mad Canadian kid of Jamaican descent, his Jamaican family and friends Oscar and Jordan, his Indo-Canadian almost girl-friend, the lethal spin bowler Deepa Singh and assorted other cricket crazy Canucks of color (or not), I’m signing up for the 2012 POC … More People of Color Reading Challenge
For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, YA Highway asks what was the best book you read in February? Compared to last month when I read 20 books, this month has been a bit pathetic. I only read six books. That’s a terrible total for me and my only excuse is that I’ve been writing quite a … More Road Trip Wednesday – February BOOK TWEETS
It started with this Far Side cartoon, about “luposlipaphobia” which has always been one of my favorites. In case you can’t read the below, luposlipaphobia is defined as : The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table whilst wearing socks on a newly waxed floor. Obvious right? I mean, we’ll ALL had it … More Caniconigenitweetophobia or Why You Should Tweet Your Favorite Authors.
I was perusing my fabulous bookshelves the other day, and it occurred to me that I have an odd and interesting collection of books by people that I know personally or have met in person. I haven’t been to many book signings; they’re not really my thing, but I have a good pile of books, many signed, that I … More Friends, Authors, and Acquaintances
Oasis for YA is having a romantic blogfest in honor of Valentine’s week, and are asking people to post swoon-worthy scenes. Since I just signed a contract on my upcoming verse novel AUDACIOUS (Orca Books, Fall 2013), I probably shouldn’t post from it here. Instead I’ll give you a scene from my WIP, a YA/chicklit/scifi/romance. … More That’s YAmore
I’ve done a lot of reading this week. A LOT (not “alot”, which is in fact this kind of creature). And after this week of contention on the blogs about bad reviews and snarky authors I’d certainly like to throw a real flaming cannonball at someone, but in reality, everything has been pretty good. … More Book Tweets
I’m the girl everyone loves but no one wants to marry. At least I was. Eventually I convinced my husband to marry me, and I don’t think he regrets it. And even though I was only 31 when I got married, it seemed like I had spent a lifetime listening to men tell me how they … More Waiting for the Ring
I was going to go dark today because of SOPA/PIPA but, being Canadian, I felt it better to have a laugh at the whole sorry mess, because that’s what we do. In that spirit, here’s a very silly video, courtesy of 107.7 combining two of my favorite things: Don McLean and cats.
So I showed you all my book pile last week. You’ll be happy to know it’s smaller by six books! Here’s the tweet-down: @AGSmith_Author LOCKDOWN:ESCAPE FROM FURNACE was so f-ing good. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series. Dark, wild and unputdownable!!! EVERMORE by @alysonnoel Pretty hard to put down, towards the … More Bookpile: The Revenge
So I’ve been collecting “Captchas”. You know, those odd strings of letters you have to type in to confirm you’re a human being commenting on a blog and not a bot? The first captchas I remember were a combination of two words, in blurry random fonts. Some are just random string of letters and numbers. … More Fun with Captchas and GIVEAWAY
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