It’s November and that means it’s NANOWRIMO. To celebrate my first Nanowrimo novel, Zero Repeat Forever being on the way to publication by Simon & Schuster I’m featuring many published or soon-to-be-published Nanowrimo novels over the month of November, as well as some old posts I wrote during my first Nanowrirmo in 2011. It’s going to be super … More Nanowrimo Celebration!

As you guys might know I’m a big supporter of We Need Diverse Books and especially fond of diverse book covers! But all this enthusiasm shouldn’t be restricted to books for kids and teens, so I’m pretty excited to be part of a cover reveal for Kellye Garrett‘s Hollywood Homicide, a murder mystery set in … More Cover Reveal! Hollywood Homicide

I’ve  just been cleaning out my blog a bit, deleting a few things with dead links or out of date information and such. When I got to the first months of this blog I found this post from September 2011, in which I confessed having up to seven works in progress (WIPS) going at once. Looking back … More My Hit Rate Is Surprisingly High

Happy October everyone! Just a quick post to invite you all to enter my annual Spooktacular giveaway: You’ll find it here. The prizes include Amazon $$ and copies of my two latest books. It’s part of any amazing Blog hop involving over 100 authors and bloggers, each doing their own giveaway. Click on the giveaway to … More Spooktacular Giveaway

Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, … More YA Scavenger Hunt Fall 2016

I’ll be at Chapters/Indigo in North Vancouver, signing and schmoozing with five other Vancouver area authors on August 6th. Come for a visit and enter to win a Chapters gift card!

By now some of you have heard the news that my YA novel Zero Repeat Forever earned me a six-figure two-book deal with Simon & Schuster. I don’t really know what to say about this except… As you might expect I’m pretty happy about my deal. I’m supremely grateful to my new agent, Barbara Poelle … More My Big News: Rejection, Conviction and Lots of Zeroes

For someone like me, social media is a scary and unpredictable place. As much as I love being a reasonably well-known author, I don’t really want to be a well-known person. That is, I don’t want to share most of the non-fiction of my life. In fact the idea is slightly terrifying. I make characters … More The Perils of Flying While Female

In case I forgot to mention it, I’m currently a nominee for a White Pine Award for my verse novel, AUDACIOUS. So I’m hitting the road again, this time to Toronto, Ontario. I’ll be giving a workshop in the Festival of Trees on May 12th and I’ll be visiting two Toronto Public Library Branches on May 13th: Maria Schukha … More Gabrielle’s Travelling Road Show: Part 2