Imaginings Outside of Personal Context
Wow- that’s a wordy title for a post. What I mean is, I am often asked how did you think of that or how did you imagine that person? Like 80 year-old Polish survivor, Grammalie Rose from Ashes, Ashes. Or […]
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 […]
The Hardcover
Dear Reader, Oh happy day! I received a copy of the hardcover in the mail today. It’s always so exciting and weird to see a book you wrote in the flesh (so to speak). It always seems lighter than it […]
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 […]
New Author photo
I thought it was time for an update. This pic taken by the amazing Madeleine Kendall (www.madeleinekendall.com) seems more appropriate for an author whose next book is about a fledgling serial killer. NEEDS MUST will be published in the Spring of […]
Exciting News!!!!! (and it’s been a long looooonnnggg time coming)
I’ve been sitting on this for over four months and it was like perching on a gigantic sea urchin. It was painful 🙂 but finally (and serendipitously on my birthday), the news was finally broken. I am so grateful and […]
Letter to my Grandmothers
My Italian grandmother, my nonna Giovannina, taught me how to knit when I was eight years old. She cast on with her fingers and held the needles tucked in between her ample bosom and her armpits. I had no bosom […]