Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
This is inspired by Author Kelly Barnhill (The Mostly True Story of Jack) who just posted a few interesting facts about herself on her site. (Like her, by the way, I have always had a hard time remembering my right […]
I remember before ASHES,ASHES was published, I was so calm and rational, filled with the zen of doing and being rewarded for what I loved. I knew that eventually I would have to let go of the book. Let it […]
During my appearance at the Atlantic Author Day in Halifax on June 18th I was fortunate enough to meet these two lovely ladies. Not only had they both read Ashes, Ashes but they came armed with a camera and many […]
I was reading my horoscope the other (cue eye roll). I know, I know. But I don’t read it to see if I’m going to win the lottery. I use it as sort of an introspection tool. And I only […]
BIRTHDAY to me!
Sometimes I feel like a leaf caught in the current. Kids, work, family, the phone, the internet. My yoga teacher told me you’re not a bird in the sky. You are the sky. Clouds drift across, in and out, don’t […]
My writer friend Aimee Ferris has been holding a contest for her smart and fun new YA book Will Work For Prom Dress featuring a veritable pantheon of kid lit authors and literati wearing their finest prom or anti-prom feathers. […]
In my imagination, my skin is two feet thick. And water-proof. Scathing criticisms and rotten tomatoes just roll off leaving no inner wounds or impossible-to-remove stains. This is what I tell myself. I also tell myself that it is better […]
…but who wants perfection as a writer anyway? Once you’ve attained perfection there’s nothing left to do. Plus, perfection is entirely subjective anyhow. But practice is definitely necessary. And being out of practice is definitely painful. Case in point I […]
(These are not my kids. They are facsimiles. Also, though we wished very hard, we have had no snow.) After three weeks with both kids home from school… a state that filled their wee hearts with joy and mine with […]