Montreal YA Lit Fest 2018
I live in a tiny, magical chocolate box of a seaside town tucked away on the south shore of Nova Scotia. I look after my kids and pets; I write; I read scores of books in my sunroom perched over […]
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What Kind of a Person Could Write a Book Like That?
OK, to answer the first part of this. I am a single mother of two amazing kids, a pet owner (2 dogs and 2 bossy cats), a vegetarian since the age of 12 (an incentive to stop eating animals was […]
A Few More Questions About Blood Will Out
What was the weirdest thing you needed to research for the story? Ok, without any spoilers, let me just say that I had to do a lot of research for this book including answering questions I had about firearms, meat […]
A Few Questions About the Writing of Blood Will Out
3 months. 3 months (and 4 tiny days) until Blood Will Out hits the shelves. I’ve been getting emails from various readers and they tend to ask similar questions so I thought I’d answer a few of them here. What […]
Blood Will Out
Update: The YA psych thriller (formerly NEEDS MUST) has a new title- BLOOD WILL OUT- which I think is terrifyingly appropriate. Stay tuned to this page for announcements and other fun stuff. I’ll definitely be blogging about the experience of entering […]
The Spaces in Between
This weekend I was on a panel at the breathtaking new Halifax Central Library (pictured here), with acclaimed journalist and fellow Fierce Shorts author, Chris Benjamin, talking about writing from life (although isn’t all writing from life? Even if it […]
Balance and the Bookstore
I’ve always worked in ‘different’ jobs- the independent music industry for over twenty years back when it was fun, as a landscape gardener, as a tree surgeon, as a bookseller. The most ‘regular’ jobs I’ve ever had were marketing for […]
Becoming Fierce Blog Tour
The Becoming Fierce: Teen Stories IRL blog tour has started! From September 9 until September 23 you’ll be able to check out early reviews of our creative non-fiction anthology, plus Q&As with the authors and guest posts. Sept 9 — […]
Becoming Fierce: Teen Stories IRL
This honest and moving anthology of YA writers comes out September 23 2014. I have a story in here about my best friend, our turbulent youth, and the bad choices we made out of love, desperation, and a hunger for […]
The Punk Rock
My kids don’t understand the punk rock. They ask me, “why’d you dress like that?” “why was your hair that ugly color?” They say “that style made you look like a skunk” or “a homeless person.” Or they scream, “turn […]