As we sit here today with a new year upon us, I’m excited by the promise of 2016 and yet I can’t help but feel nostalgic for 2015 and the adventures it held. January 2015 arrived on a wave of excitement with the release of my first non-fiction book. Be the Change in the World…… Continue Reading
Recently, Dave Beynon contacted me to tell me about a new show on TV Cogeco called Turning Pages with Roxanne Beale. He asked if Roxanne, the owner of Roxanne’s Reflections Book and Card Shop could interview me for the guest author feature on their very first show. I was excited, honoured – and just a little bit scared…… Continue Reading
Wow! Well, that was intense, inspiring and… just a little bit insane. 3 Rainforest of Reading literacy festivals, over 4 days, in 2 countries, with well over 6000 students. Under tarps in the rain, under sun in 37C heat, with soaking wet materials and–after my voice deserted me–a bullhorn. I’d intended to blog…… Continue Reading
Our hosts told us to pack ear plugs. But, I find the night-time singing of the tree frogs relaxing. The repeated onslaught of rain that crashes down the hillside behind our little cottage, slams into the tin roof above my head, and then stops without warning is another story. And so now I am awake,…… Continue Reading
I may have announced a couple of months ago how EXCITED I was–and still am–that Skink on the Brink has been chosen as one of the picture books to be included in the Rainforest of Reading in Grenada and Saint Lucia this year. OneWorld Schoolhouse is a fantastic not-for-profit organization working to promote childhood literacy…… Continue Reading
I went to a conference this weekend as a total imposter. I’m supposed to be a writer — I was even receiving an award — but I haven’t written a new idea in over a year, or maybe longer (!) Is that “writers’ block?” I don’t know. I have been writing. But in the absence…… Continue Reading
A year ago, Debbie Ohi interviewed Suzanne Del Rizzo and me for her Inky Girl blog. In her post, Debbie included all sorts of information and terrific visuals about the writing and illustrating process for Skink on the Brink, our road to publication and beyond… Book Café loves this kind of book chat. To read the interview, please visit Debbie’s…… Continue Reading
So I finished my first novel yesterday–well, the first novel I will actually confess to having written, the first novel I can actually envision maybe someday seeing the light of day. I didn’t post anything about it because completing that final chapter did not leave me on a high. I didn’t pour a glass of…… Continue Reading
Thank you, Lora and Mauricio of Words on a Limb for interviewing me for your Spotlight on Authors. Thank you also for your diligent research – an unexpected result of this interview being it finally nudged me into the world of Twitter! At the bottom of the Words on a Limb interview, I was surprised to find…… Continue Reading
Before I had published my first book, I had this dream of publication that it meant my work would be out there for other people–strangers even–to stumble across, maybe pick up and read, perhaps even take home to share or revisit later. I had understood that my book would be printed in runs consisting of…… Continue Reading
While I know that I could never commit to maintaining a full blog – and kudos to all of those who do, while keeping up with their own writing, and while maintaining an actual life – I do wish I had somewhere to post relevant book news. I have decided to let this page simply…… Continue Reading