Ch-ch-ch-anges
The other morning on an excursion to pick up some raspberry plants my 5 year old daughter said, “Mommy. Daddy is going to marry Estelle.” I managed to say. “Really. Why do you say that?” “Because she told me he […]
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Ponderings #1 (In which I talk about God knows what)
I’ve always hated that saying, You’re born alone, You die alone. Really? I think that when we are born we hear our mother’s heartbeat, and the rush of her blood, and we are connected to her, are we not? until […]
Coming from a Dark Place
I think of myself as a happy person. When I first started writing as a young child, my stories were full of magic and possibility, and my first completed published book, a middle-grade, was made up largely of fantasy and […]
My Trip to Toronto
Last week I had the thrill (and honor) of going to Toronto for the Ontario Library Association’s White Pine awards. (Helpful notes: Do not wear jeans with an extra inside coin pocket. Do not have tissue in your pocket. Do […]
Tough versus tender
So my friend and I were hanging out the other day in my bright sunroom, gazing through the windows at tight buds and green shoots and the wind-tossed sea, and drinking ginger tea, and speaking of ghastly things (because she […]
The Beautiful Place Where I Live
Beautiful Lunenburg
Ashes, Ashes Fan-made Book Trailer
Check out this awesome book trailer a fan made! So cool!
Living like Ferdinand
The story of Ferdinand the Bull by Munro Leaf (totally awesome name!) is one of my favorite childhood books. If you don’t know, Ferdinand is a gentle soul who just likes to smell the flowers until the day he sits […]
On Dating and Querying
So I thought I had a pretty thick skin these days, ’cause you know, I’ve experienced quite a few agent rejections in the last coupla months… But apparently, getting rejected by ‘boys’ (and by boys I mean ‘men’ sometimes) is […]
Pouncing like a cat
The appropriately-named YA author Cat Clarke recently tweeted about how she works on her WIP by circumnavigating it via Twitter, Facebook, and random Internet surfing before sort of accidentally falling into her word.doc and being pleasantly surprised that it exists. […]