Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
Although I am Canadian, and now (after 30 years or so elsewhere) live in Canada again, and although we celebrated the Canadian Thanksgiving with the rest of the country last month, American Thanksgiving remains close to my heart.As newcomers to […]
I recently started taking yoga so forgive me if I tread the path of enlightenment for just a moment.There’s a lot of meditation in the class. And also a lot of inversions (hanging upside down), and bendy exercises and pose-striking.(note- […]
Well it’s not really a secret because I’m about to tell you…But maybe you can guess. The picture above is a clue.Yes, a clue. (Hmmm. Enigmatic wrinkling of the brow). I just received a box by special courier from NYC.And […]
At some point in high school- perhaps for all of the 10th grade- I was often called ‘Joey Ramone’. People on the street would yell at me as I slunk along trying to blend into the shadows.One might conceivably take […]
Yesterday the family and I took a little trip to Annapolis Royale on the north shore of Nova Scotia. It’s a 1 and 1/2 hour drive straight across the mainland, through woodland and past signs warning drivers to look out […]
I apologize profusely for not blogging for a couple of weeks.It’s been a combination of sudden frenetic busyness in my world and a lack of very much to say. And I’ve been working on my WIP.Yes, the same old one […]
I was saddened to hear yesterday that Eva Ibbotson had died. She was 85. I’ve mentioned before that she was a great influence on me, both as a writer and as a gracious and generous person. I wrote to her […]
Do any of you know who Imogen Poots is? She is a ravishing, doe-eyed gazelle of a British actress known mostly for being gorgeous and appearing in the movie 28 Weeks Later. Here she is: She got me thinking or […]
Regarding the difficulty besetting a writer who must deliver a second book to her publisher. You may think that writers are spilling over with new stories all the time.That it is merely a matter of writing them down.Not so.I have […]
I’m sure that for many of you writers this is not a difficulty. Perhaps you are masters of the detailed outline. Perhaps the whole book appears to you in a wonderfully clear dream.Perhaps you are one of those people who […]