Dark YA

Anyone in the biz, and anyone interested in the biz (the biz being young adult books), is probably up on the whole Washington Street Journal story from last week about dark YA and how it’s harming our children. I’m actually going to refrain from...

Stars Are Born at Hot Cup of Fiction

As my husband has been known to say, “I’m so proud I could pop.” The young authors in my writing program rocked the island with their stories last night. Not to mention their poise, humour, and professionalism. Mad Rona’s Coffee Bar was SRO,...

A Hot Cup of Fiction

I am very excited because today is a big day here on the island. All year, I have been working with students in a creative writing program once a week at the local school, and today they are having a book release party. That’s right! They’ve written books....

Let’s build a library together!

If you live in Canada, it’s pretty hard to imagine you’ve missed the events in Slave Lake, Alberta over the last week, but since a lot of you don’t live here, I’ll recap. To put it succinctly…forty percent of the town burned down in a...

Celebration!

This photo was taken by my husband. It’s me and one of my best friends, Kelly. We’re celebrating the fact that Kelly just graduated from university and the same week, I got word that my book, Restoring Harmony, was picked up by Scholastic for the book...